Weekend starting 27th April and ending in all out beer carnage

Out to pub lunch tomorrow but I'll probably be driving so that really means mild , no problem as it's rapidly becoming my favourite.On Sunday, off out for a Sunday roast and this time I won't be driving so it all depends upon what's on the pumps.

 

I don't want to open up the can of worms that is "mild beer" but if I drank mild for lunch at my local and then went driving I'd be in a whole world of shit.

Firstly, Brunswick's Father Mike's Dark Rich Ruby Mild is 5.8%

Secondly, I can't drive.

 

All sounds good but I gotta admit a soft spot for Meantime IPA.

Me, I just got in but it'll soon be a Tempest Brave New World IPA. Only probably is I'll be adding and adding to my stacks and stacks of tasting notes still waiting to be branded on this site.

 

Two bottles of M&S Winter IPA (aka Adnams Innovation), one bottle of Thornbridge Bracia (2008 first batch, still full of life & bitter honey) and a healthy slug of gin (surely the IPA of spirits..)

 

and a healthy slug of gin (surely the IPA of spirits..)[/quote]

That is one superb analogy Scoops.

 

Mild was originally strong and pale . the weaker, dark stuff is a more recent development. Like IPA it has changed and evolved over time.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18371/56616

 

"more recent" means the past 100 years or so though.

 

Or alternatively, in living memory. Sorry marquis, but I'm a bit protective of that weak dark stuff.

 

Can't say exactly what it'll be tonight but I'm feeling something German coming on.

 

Picked up a couple of Fuller's Past Masters yesterday, might open a large bottle of Hoegaarden too this evening.

 

Love it! Had a pint of Oldershaw's Grantham Dark , 3.6% this lunchtime.
Then a pint of Brewster's Hophead, the original beer of that name, at 3.6% which was glorious and amazing for its gravity.
As the driver I had to stop at this point.

 

That 1664 lager. And Beck's. The day can only get betterer.

 

I spent five hours at the Euston Tap last night, drinking mostly Magic Rock's Dark Arts and Buxton's Moor Top. Oh, and Buxton's SPA. And Thornbridge Halcyon. And Arbor Ales' Black Eyed PA.

British brewing is in some fine fucking form at the moment, I tell you what.

 

Yes, picked them up in Urmston while back in Manchester for the day. When I got to the self service till the guy helping was raving about it. Wales are still in the middle ages, no Past Masters XX here in North Wales. Sums up the beer scene in the supermarkets in this part of the UK- Shite!

 

Had a very poorly kept pint of Doom Bar.

And no past masters in Essex either, like 10 miles from London *rage*

 

Just cracked an Old Slewfoot Crooked Smile Saison- really rather good for an english-made belgian-style saison. Orval up next.

 

I'm surprised it would usually hold its own. Now the Cornish Coaster is an iffy one...as for my drinking this weekend, mostly BMC...yep I suck

 

That's why it was drinkable I think, just quite a bit blander than usual. A well kept Doom Bar in my humble opinion is bloody brilliant.

 

Well, would you expect anything else from Coors?

 

That's not a very good comparison. Do you expect Cadbury's chocolate to taste like cheese just because the company is owned by Kraft (which started as a cheese company btw)?

Doom Bar is a bloody good pint and even if it was a Coors offering then good on Coors for producing a good beer.

 

It was a leg pull. Coors after all brew White Shield.

 

I thought you were referring to the blandness comment. I doff my cap and 'umbly apologise to you sah.

 

coor blimey maaary

 

Yes it's really lovely.