What's wetting the whistle?

Dude is getting a C!tra in a week or so

 

Vigneronne. Not as good as last years, as the big fruity muscatelle hasn't come through yet. I find aged Vigneronne better then the fresher stuff.

 

who is gettign Citra, the most hyped beer on this forum?

 

overhyped...

 

Must be that east coast hype.

 

I think its mulders cronulla hype

 

well, went shopping at Aldi today ...

 

Ok Scotty, I'll bite...

And?

 

The Kiwi made Amber aint that bad ... the other beers looked a bit scary. At least this one had requisite 'Squires Yellow' packaging ... thats all ...

 

Had an Iris at the shop, and now drinking St Lamvinus.

 

hows this vintage of St Lamnivus?

 

Good. Again, really fresh. I actually think this and Vigneronne really come into it's own after a year.

 

Just had a taste of Murray's ICON. Really quite nice. Sometimes I think DIPA's can be a bit unbalanced and the hoppy bitterness etc kills all other taste. This is really good. Hops come through but it's not the mouth r_pe by bitterness of a beer some DIPA's can be.

Kudos.

 

It's probably like that because it's not a double ipa, just a really good US IPA.

 

Really? That's what I thought the '2' on the 2IPA bit stood for. Silly me. That's two strikes today. 1 more and I'm out of the group.

What does the 2 stand for then?

 

They call it an Imperial IPA, but it's borderline IIPA. I don't think too many people here judge it as such. Holgate call their Hopinator Double IPA, and that doesn't even fit into style guidelines, it doesn't have enough alcohol.

I think those style guidelines are fairly wrong anyway. 7.5% is far too low for a real Imperial IPA. Even 8 I think is too low. I don't get how Pliny is an Imperial IPA.

 

I usually go by what the brewery tell me. If they're claiming 2IPA I will let them have 2IPA. Then again, I'm even more impressed if it's just an IPA.

Btw, we've never actually met. If you want to go for a beer on Sunday and talk shop anything but shop and drink a few beers PM me. Try and drag Andrew down too, I haven't heard from him for a while. I have vague recollections of him travelling though.

 

I'll be at the shop doing end of financial year stuff, which sucks, cause that would have been a viable option, as the parents are heading to freo.

 

I got all of my EOFY stuff out of the way last week. Now I'm doing rosters up until the 12/8 so I can safely go on holidays.

One day we will finally meet. The dog and the brewing process finally sitting down to have a beer and mock talk about how awesome Dry Dock is.