UK Weekend Beerage

Congratulations, wishing you all good health and happiness

 

Been quite busy beer wise with Tryanuary

so dialling it back to new year which was rang in with Burton Barrel Aged Barley wine brewed by Heritage brewery Beer Nouveau in conjunction with historic reborn Truman's
& the night ending with pudding beer dessert in a can chocolate marshmallow from Amundsen

Then the tenth of Jan was Manchester Tryanuary day & head of Beer Nouveau Steve was none to happy that his brewtap had been left of the official crawl, so I headed there to provide an alternative night, quite fitting since Manchester gave the world The Buzzcocks, Joy Division & the Chameleons. There I tested some of the beers for an event the next day & had Lost & Grounded Pils.

The next day I was there for 'The Evolution of Ale' where BN brewed beers to historic recipes
staring with an ancient Egyptian celebration ale made from a three thousand year old Sumerian poem that was flavoured with grapes, figs and dates rather than hops making it very fruity.
On to Georgian porter which it's brown malt gave quite a sourish vinegar flavour. Stock ales, the original mild (fresh ale), India Porter (officers) India Pale Ale (troops), an actual recreation of the historic three threads, 120/, lager and the original west Coast IPAs that mimicked bitter Bitter.

Last week saw the Grub Winter festival & being a Tryanuary volunteer meant I got a free ticket, however it didn't include anything else than getting through the door and as they were taking card only payments & I had only cash didn't get a drink there. So I took photos & tweeted them periodically so it had coverage for a while on the hash tag.

Luckily also Solar wind appear in Tesco locale for the first time so tried that with Orkney's Raven, Tiny rebel pump up the jam & Hop Stuff DDH Pale.

Tomorrow is my birthday so yesterday took advantage of a lot of folk being at the Manchester Beer & Cider Festival & met up with a couple of old, odd friends in the Smithfield Market tavern & we actually managed to get a decent table. Fab Blackjack beers that went so well with Stockport indie butcher sausage roll. Kirkstall's Frambroise was a first lambic on cask and had so much raspberry. Great to have Thornbridge other than their (bright?) bottles that dull the flavour & their Monyash tasted like smoked sweetcure bacon.

Two weeks off work so might have some more fermented tales to tell.

 

I'm clicking like to acknowledge not that I like it being dead here

We have had a lot of our big personalities leave & some newbies that seemed like they would be great but just didn't stick with us.

I tell you what I'll be back on Sunday with a brief write up of
Öl Nano Brewery & Bar & what I'll be celebrating the end of my working week with ale wise.

Try & keep a minimum pulse on here & hope perhaps some will return or we get some new blood

 

Last nights home bottle & can session

660ml bottle of Good Living’s Binary Botanical that was brewed to
Compete with wine.

This doesn’t even compete with beer.

Tastes like a posh lager & lime but it doesn’t even have the body of that & thanks to Ocado being sold out of 330ml bottles I had to suffer through 660ml of it.

Buxton’s Sonita, bought from the local Bargain Booze as they have a craft section, very juicy.

Little Valley’s Python IPA & Tod’s Blonde, showed up at the Localshop corner/convenience shop down the road, both pretty decent.

Wooha’s IPA, part IPA part scotch ale, all good.

Elusive’s Artist Formerly Known as Imperial Brown Stout, a carry out from their tap takeover of Beer Nouveau. Guest brewer at the back, resident in the front bar, Nintendo 64s in between, fantastic event & wonderful beer.

2019- 164 days in 223 different beers tried in that time.

 

In case there are any UK based beer drinkers still wanting to hear & talk about beer & related antics, well I’ve been trying to spend as much time in the Beer Nouveau Tap to learn about beer craft, home brew Expo there on Sunday.

Always something new brewed there & inspired me to brew myself, first a porter & have just bottled a hazy IPA.

Kept in touch with Zimbo on FB & he’s been sending me aged Russian Imperial Stout, Barley Wine & Scotch Ale as his cellar is overflowing

Greater Manchester is also great with beer at the mo

 

70 different beers tried in August
I can see the aromas
I can taste the statistics

Yesterday out with a friend who is just recovering from chemo wants to go to Wetherspoon’s so broke my boycott

Sorry but people before principles

In spoons had their cask collabs Yazoo and temperance IPAs, Phoenix’s Sticky Wicket, Black Bee & Wobbly Bob. Snuck off whilst pudding was being ate for thirds of Kirkstall Music & Silence & Northern Ireland’s Boundary Push + Pull.
Noticed Chorlton Tap was opposite the tram stop so had Donkeystone Vanilla Porter & Wander Beyond Colossal Creek.
Back home thought good time for burying crap beer so Brains Point Break & Robbos One Eyed Jack
Family wanted to watch film so washed down popcorn with M&S/Oakham Cambridgeshire Golden Ale
Snuck back to Chorlton Tap this Arvo for hair of the dog and a carry out

 

That’s some good supping,
Are you over here imbibing and got that Tynt Meadow or are you in Maryland looking for a hook up on it?

 

They’re might be a couple of bottles near me, I’ll check and get back to you if you are interested in a small trade.

 

I don't mean to be a debbie downer, but you guys realize that shipping a 10kg package internationally is gonna cost around 45 quid to the USA and 70 dollars to Europe, right? It doesn't really get much cheaper below 10kg as well. If you know a cheaper option, please let me know.

 

A whilst back on Facebook I found a Pixies fan who wanted an Orbit beer that had the Monkey from the Doolittle album cover, think two 330ml bottles cost about £8-£12 it’s doubling the cost of the beer, it all depends how much you want it & I would be willing to pay that for some local beer or something I couldn’t get here.