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« Reply #90 on: Thursday, April 10, 2014, 11:26:16 » |
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[ Harviestoun Brewery make some good beers, you don't get many south of the border but they do an amazing beer thats 9% called Engineers Reserve and Ola Dubh at 8%, lovely but hard to get further than 50 miles from Alloa, unless you order online. Was supping red kite ale from the Black Isle brewery in Edinburgh last night. Lovely amber beer. Mild laxative qualities though...  Black Isle brewery beers have the same effect on my bowel as Pickfords.....move anything and fairly quickly. |
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« Reply #91 on: Thursday, April 10, 2014, 15:02:05 » |
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Odd, I've never had a problem with Black Isle's stuff. Red Kite is gorgeous.
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« Reply #92 on: Thursday, April 10, 2014, 15:08:00 » |
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Odd, I've never had a problem with Black Isle's stuff. Red Kite is gorgeous.
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« Reply #93 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 00:33:52 » |
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Grimbergen Blonde, fantastic.
Fuck me yeah, way to go. Don't tell Reg i like something European will ya? |
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« Reply #94 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 00:51:37 » |
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Thats cos you got young robust guts They're also ennured to the delights of rough cider. Who needs a colonic when you can have four pints of Rich's? |
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« Reply #95 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 07:18:50 » |
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They're also ennured to the delights of rough cider. Who needs a colonic when you can have four pints of Rich's?
Rich's is a fantastic cider and wierdly never had the colonic effect on me, my local is Perry's in Ilminster not as refined as Rich's but just as tasty and a bit cheaper, Bridge Farm is also very good too just outside Yeovil on the A30 at Chinnock. |
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« Reply #96 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 08:20:36 » |
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Odd, I've never had a problem with Black Isle's stuff. Red Kite is gorgeous.
3Bs always gave me problems - even in the halcyon days of my youth. Remember when it was the guest beer in an Edinburgh boozer (HP Mathers) about 7 or 8 years ago..  |
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« Reply #97 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 09:51:04 » |
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Rich's is a fantastic cider and wierdly never had the colonic effect on me, my local is Perry's in Ilminster not as refined as Rich's but just as tasty and a bit cheaper, Bridge Farm is also very good too just outside Yeovil on the A30 at Chinnock.
To me Rich's has always had a tad of the farmyard about it. They've got a 6,000 gallon vat named after Adge Cutler as well. Hecks' is good stuff too. |
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« Reply #98 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 10:02:34 » |
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From the Nøgne Ø Brewery If you can get down to a Wetherspoons that has it before the end of the beer festival on Sunday there is a Nøgne Ø brown ale on tap that is completely lovely. |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #99 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 10:35:45 » |
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To me Rich's has always had a tad of the farmyard about it. They've got a 6,000 gallon vat named after Adge Cutler as well.
Hecks' is good stuff too.
Not heard of Hecks, that be a new un on I as they say down here. |
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« Reply #100 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 11:47:27 » |
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Not heard of Hecks, that be a new un on I as they say down here.
It's over near Street. There's a great traditional cider maker whose name utterly escapes me for the moment, where you basically go in, pay £15, and get a good ploughmans lunch, and as much as you can drink from their 6/7 varieties. I forgot who it's by, but Moonshine is a cracking pint. Crystal clear and strong as fuck. |
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« Reply #101 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:10:28 » |
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It's over near Street.
There's a great traditional cider maker whose name utterly escapes me for the moment, where you basically go in, pay £15, and get a good ploughmans lunch, and as much as you can drink from their 6/7 varieties.
I forgot who it's by, but Moonshine is a cracking pint. Crystal clear and strong as fuck.
Moonshine is Lilleys from Frome, I love Lilleys ciders. |
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« Reply #102 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:27:07 » |
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Moonshine is Lilleys from Frome, I love Lilleys ciders.
That's the biscuit. Their Bee Sting is pretty great too for a Pear cider. Do they own Henry Westons or am I not remembering stuff right? |
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« Reply #103 on: Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:55:41 » |
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That's the biscuit. Their Bee Sting is pretty great too for a Pear cider. Do they own Henry Westons or am I not remembering stuff right?
I don't think they own Westons but I could be wrong. Bee Sting is my wifes favourite perry, we always get a few gallons in over Christmas, sweet but very drinkable. |
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« Reply #104 on: Thursday, April 24, 2014, 17:52:20 » |
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If you can get down to a Wetherspoons that has it before the end of the beer festival on Sunday there is a Nøgne Ø brown ale on tap that is completely lovely. Went through Gatwick yesterday, stopped in the Wetherspoons and was delighted to see that they still had some of this left. Big mistake, absolutely horrid. Flat, warm and dull, definitely festival left overs.  Still, I'm going to bring some bottles of it back with me tomorrow |
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