UK Weekend Beerage

As Hanglow says, that's Edinburgh for you, especially near Waverley train station and surrounding areas.

 

My brother's in Iceland and says it's £10 a pint. Never going there.

 

Conquered my fear of the price tag and picked up the Yeast part of the Northern Monk trilogy series. Also Dark Arts and Inhaler from Magic Rock, with Lightbulb and Pulp! from Verdant.
Last thing I got was a cold, so putting the beer on hold and breaking out the whisky for hot toddies.

 

Nogne O Pale Ale
Harviestoun Old Engine Oil

Both from M and S and top notch. Saving myself for next weekends Heretic tap takeover

Early Bird tickets out for Bristol Craft Beer Festival in Sept. Fabulous line up, quality local brewers backed up with the likes of Firestone Walker, Beerbliotek, De la Senne, Verdant, Mikkeller, The Kernel, Beavertown, Siren, Thornbridge to name but a few :

https://bristolcraftbeerfestival.co.uk/brewers/

With Moor also having a cracking weekend in June to celebrate their anniversary planned it is going to be a great summer/autumn fest :

https://twitter.com/drinkmoorbeer?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

 

I drive by an aldi every day to/from work so picked up some of their latest scottish beer fest beers - tonight had Black Wolf; Pure Gallus -a so-so pale ale , Old Worthy; Cure for Scurvy, a marmalade/whisky strong bitter, pretty decent I thought and a Windswept; Tornado IPA which is not worth buying even at aldi prices

Also got a Fyne Haus Lager, Broughton Hopopotamus Lager and a 6 degrees north Pils, will probably resurrect my lager thread for those

There's a couple of other ones that I'll probably buy, Traquair had a new beer there albeit a weakish one and Strathaven of all breweries have canned a golden ale, I await to be thoroughly nonplussed by it. Also they are selling cans of ceasar augustus for £1.25 each

 

I've been once, it's great apart from the prices smoked puffin is a revelation and the place looks like mordor

 

I tried the 3 I've highlighted above, liked the Old Worthy, thought the Fyne Haus Lager was ok and wasn't fussed with the Windswept IPA. Best ones for me were...
Eden Mill - Rotweizen,
Stewart - Radical Road,
Fallen - Odyssey,
6 Degrees North - Pilsner.

 

Moor Dark Alliance
Lost and Grounded Saison D'Avon
Lost and Grounded Running with Sceptres
Lost and Grounded Apophenia
Arbor Yakima Valley
Six Degrees North Cherry Chopper
Six Degrees North/Magic Rock Magic Six
Heretic Coffee Hazelnut Porter
Heretic Evil Cousin
Heretic Shallow Grave
Heretic BA Torment

Great weekend sampling some great local beers, Scottish and American brews. No duffers, standouts for the hops Evil Cousin and Magic Six and for the higher ABV's Torment, lovely BA Belgian like strong ale which was far too easy to drink for it's 10% ABV

 

Enjoying a bourbon milkshake from siren craft at the moment, excellent beer.

 

Sorry to hear about your dad EB.

Have bought that Buxton - Rain Shadow Single Barrel Bourbon before and it's fab.

 

Was in Edinburgh tonight for the Feeder gig, awesome...had,
Brewdog - Jet Black Heart,
Tempest - Huell,
Williams Bros. - March of the Penguins,
Fyne - Mango Gueze,
Wild Beer - Millionaire,
Howling Hops - Impy Stout.

Great beer and Feeder were fantastic too.

 

Second both of these statements

 

Between Euston Tap, a trip to Glasgow for work (and Bon Accord), hitting a couple small bottle shops, and the return, I had a pretty wide selection of new brews over the last 5 or 6 days:

Desert Sessions (cask) - Thornbridge Brewery
Limehaus (tap) - Fourpure Brewing
March Of The Penguins (cask) - Williams Brothers
Magic Six (tap) - Magic Rock Brewing
Cherry Chopper (tap) - Six°North
Grapevine (bottle) - Fallen Brewing
Peanut Riot (bottle) - Fierce Beer
Hop Candy (tap) - Siren Craft Brew

Hop Candy was the standout beer. Unfortunately, it was also crazy expensive. London prices make me want to just sit at home and enjoy my bottles in peace.

 

Odyssey The Cult
Odyssey Santa Muerte
Stone IPA
Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale

Top 2 from a tap takeover last week from a very good brewery based on these. The back 2 from trip/s to Tesco's. Had to do a double take to see Dales in my local Express store as there's never been anything of note in there.

 

Favourite beer from a recent trip tp Bristol: Dark Star- Art of Darkness , it was sublime
OK, I was already half gone and the pub was full of cats, so that helped.

Also managed to get a few cans of Cloudwater v12 in Bath (Hunter&Sons) delicious.
I tried to get some v13 online but pretty much impossible to Spain.
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