UK Weekend Beerage

Wow weekend in Bristol, 10th anniversary for Moor with a brilliant weekend beer festival :

Moor/Arbor Double Dark Alliance
Cyclic Hoppy Saison
Guineu/Moor Juicy Jones
Birrifico Italiano Tipopils
Buskers Chocolate Porter
Croce Di Malto Temporis
Dada Ready Made APA
Elvo Heller Bock
Hammer Workpiece
Lambrate Rob de Matt
Loverbeer Beerbera
Montegioco Quarta Runa
Toccalmato Miss Molly
Lost and Grounded/Moor Uber Keller
Zero Degrees Rhubarb Gose
Brasserie De la Senne Zinnebir
Cantillon Gueze
De Struise XXXX, Tseejes Bourbon Reserva
Tilquin Gueze, Quetsche
Monchsabacher Lager

... and an unknown German Kellerbier which wasn't on the menu but right out of the barrel which was superb. No duffers at all, all top notch.

This was only a sample which was there. Fantastic line up and huge shout out to Justin and the rest of the Moor family and all of the other Bristol breweries involved.

 

I'm guessing these are just tasters? 22 beers in a weekend would probably put me in the hospital.

 

Seeing where you are coming from, third and half pours all weekend, still tho !!

 

Went to visit friends at the weekend and ended up in a small brewpub in Letchworth called the Garden City Brewery. Nice place; has a pleasantly homely, DIY feel to it. Their beers were OK though I'll confess that the best pint of the evening was Fallen's Grapevine.....

 

Currently enjoying Ægir IPA from Norway - a resinous hoppy brew to finish up the week....

 

I spend the weekend past (plus a couple days) in Gdansk, Poland with my daughter who was off from school.
Porter Cieszynski, Browar Zamkowy Cieszyn (Baltic Porter)
Wrezel Tropical Imperial IPA, Browar Zarzecze (Imperial IPA)
Grodziska White IPA, Browar w Grodzisku Wielkopolskim (IPA)
Żywiec APA, Zywiec Breweries (APA)
Juicy Delight, Browar Rockmill (IPA)
Hasen Bräu Augsburger Original, Hasen Bräu Augsburg (Kellerbier)
Grodziska APA, Browar w Grodzisku Wielkopolskim (APA)
I had a couple others at some small tap houses that I couldn't match up with breweries on the website here. The Wrezel Tropical Imperial IPA was probably the best of the group (I scored it a 4.02). Worst was the Zywiec APA, which was to be expected considering the brewer mostly puts out garbage for getting drunk fast. Certainly a growing beer scene there in Poland.

 

This weekend I'm starting off with a 750ml Cuvee Angelique from De Glazen Toren, which I picked up in France two weeks ago (but is a Belgian beer). Amazingly delicate for an 8.5% beer.

 

Glad you had a good time in Poland. I was in Gdansk 2 years ago, Krakow last year and spending 5 days in August in Warsaw. As you say cracking beer scene over there, ever increasing, even barrel aged RIS's being cracked out very well. My favs are Pracownia Piwa, AleBrowar, Pinta and Artezan, altho a barman last year reckoned there were about 200 micro brewers there and expanding. Heard good things about Rockmill. In terms of Zywiec agreed, apart from their 1881 Baltic Porter which is really good and about a £1 or less a 500 ml bottle over there, if you can find it.

 

Like the Fallen beers as well, spoke with the brewer at a tap takeover a few years ago, really knew his stuff. Chew Chew is really nice.

 

The only Rockmill beer I had a chance to try (Juicy Delight) came highly recommended from the taproom (Pulapka). It was their attempt at a NE-style IPA. Perhaps they just fell short by comparison, as I just happened to have a chance to visit Treehouse Brewery in Massachusetts a couple months ago.

 

Not posted on here for a while, crazy busy with work, managed an afternoon in Glasgow on Sat tho'.
Fyne/Candiguerra - Devine Italian Grape Ale 7.1%,
Weird Beard - Gumball DIPA 9.4%,
Fallen - Big Rasperry Dog Chew 10%,
Stone - Italian Brown Ale 9.3%,
Odysey - Chocolate Cipotle Porter 7%. All from Hippo Taproom.

2 x Weihenstephaner Hefeweisse,
Chimay Red. From Beer Halle.

Won't be out now 'til I go to Bologna in a fortnight, hopefully report back from there.

 

So far tonight, I've had:
Gulder lager (Nigerian; not good)
Harviestoun's 80/-
Brewdog's Lizard Bride
and finishing up with Brewdog's latest - Hazy Jane. Super hazy and very tasty....

 

Haven't posted in ages... Spent Saturday at my local, Beavertown Brewery. Had way too many, but the treats I remember are:
Blueberry Fika Stout (blueberry & cardamom) delicious! Excellent blueberry profile and spice
M.A.D DIPA Lervig Collab
Humuloid better than M.A.D
Canned Rations Spiced IPA, interested. Reminded me of christmas for some reason
then the usual suspects, Gamma Ray, Neck Oil, Smog Rocket.

I find that for me, they rarely turn out a bad product.

 

Quite a bit of beer this weekend, but oddly there wasn't a single British beer in the mix. Had quite a few Flying Dog beers (mostly Tropical Bitch and Snake Dog) along with Anchor Steam Dry Hopped at a couple pre-4th of July events I attended. Also ate at the Spaniards where they had a lot of Sierra Nevada on tap, so I was able to try Hop Hunter and Tropical Torpedo. At home, I was able to finally try St Bernadus 4 along with a bit too much homebrew cider. All in all, the Hop Hunter was probably the highlight.

 

I attended the summer beer festival at the pilcrow in Manchester and enjoyed beers from cloudwater - seguin Bierre brut, omnipollo/ de molen pineapple IPA collab, a couple of marble ones including the new langosetine, first beer I've tried from dry and bitter- the fat and fruity, torrside Spartacus and thornbridge cucumber wye. Missed the chance at the barrel aged anagram from dugges and omnipollo as it was only on the Friday. When I got home had a can of the telepathy from magic rock.

 

A bottle of Oakham's Citra earlier (they had some in Home Bargains this week). Now I'm enjoying Buxton's Axe Edge - superbly hoppy....