FabSwingers.com forum: Beer is the new wine!

By *obleton OP Man
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures

I'm sat on my sofa right now drinking a lightly chilled bottle of Tesco Finest American Double IPA (which is a re-badged Hardcore IPA from Brewdog) out of a huge ballon glass and the stuff is fucking amazing!!!

I could wax lyrical about the stuff ...... so I will....... eat your heart out Gilly Goulden!

It's a big beer ...... no, its a HUGE beer - 150 IBU's (International Bitterning Units - and 150 basically means off the scale cos they can't measure any higher), and 9.2% alcohol - it's got a nose that is reminiscent of illegal substance (I'm not a toker but I know what skunk smells like and this is it!

) - but despite all that it's surprisingly subtle and complex.

Despite it's strength it doesn't taste boozy or harsh like Special Brew, it's as smooth as baby's bottom that's been rubbed down with one-million grade wetndry - it could easily pass as a 6 or 7 percenter (so be careful), despite its bitterness it comes through with hints of cherry, orange peel (lots of that), melon, passionfruit, and of course grapefruit.

not a beer for the faint-hearted, but if you a bloke bored of bland mass marketed cheaply made stella or carling - or a woman who craves for something with a bit more edge than drinking sav blanc instead of chard then give it a shot!

(FYI it recently won gold at the world beer cup)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have always preferred beer to wine, ever since my first boyfriend took me to a beer festival when I was 19!

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

I'm off to the Boot Beer Fetival in Eskdale, Cumbria in June. 3 days of mtb'ing in the Lakeland hills followed by good food and great ales every night - bliss!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have not been to one for yonks due to the need to drive.

However, I intend to go to the one in town this year, as I can get home by taxi.

Walking would take an hour, and I am not sure if my bladder can hold out that long, and I am not equipped to pee standing up!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love beer, from Berliner weisse to Guinness and a lot of others inbetween.

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By *ustyWoman
over a year ago

inverclyde

where i work we have some very nice beer and ales from small scottish breweries, stag, sheepshagger, nessi, wildcat they sell really well a few from edinburgh, embra, edinburgh gold, hollyrood and are relly nice as well, any one in scotland it you like beer try them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beer is always first on my list

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't drink alcohol but loved your pleasure at finding a good one OP. I did however buy a cherry beer for a cake I was making and it was so delish. Fruit beers seem popular for drinking too. Are they a true beer if made with fruit?

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

"I don't drink alcohol but loved your pleasure at finding a good one OP. I did however buy a cherry beer for a cake I was making and it was so delish. Fruit beers seem popular for drinking too. Are they a true beer if made with fruit?"

Definitely. They are brewed in the traditional manner, then at a certain point in the fermentation process the fruit is added. The Belgian fruit beers are brewed in open-topped vats (mesh covered) to allow natural fermentation from the yeast in the air, halfway through local fruit that was in season would be added.

The EU tried to stop it because it wasn't considered sterile enough but fortunately it gained protected status.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tripel Karmeliet beer from Belgium is the nicest thing i've EVER drank. Only a couple tho,it's 8.5%

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

If beer is the new wine I wonder what has become the new beer.

I think it might be cider or sand or pebbles.

Tortoises and turtles evolved from pebbles.

I'm really liking larger at the moment and have gone old skool with Sol!

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

Good old British Real Ale, hand drawn from the cask, can't beat it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have started doing homebrew as pub round here are quite sparse.

You can get a very nice kit for £9 that make 30 pints and it has a very nice taste.

I did 'poor man stout' a few weeks ago and my god it was lovely.

don't take long ether, 1 week to brew, 1 week to prime in the bottles and then it ready, leave it a bit longer in the bottles and it gets a bit stronger.

Been doing wine also from 8% up to 17% grape, satsuma, blackcurrant..ect..all good stuff.

And you can't moan about the price as its about 30 pence for a pint and less than 8 pence for a bottle of wine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good old British Real Ale, hand drawn from the cask, can't beat it"

Mostly I'd agree with you but there's some real crap out there too. Stuff brewed just for strength and publicity rather than taste.

Then there's the whole business about how well it's looked after once it reaches the bar cellar.

Done well, it's food for the gods.

Done badly, you couldn't serve it to a dog.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

Ah that's why I'm choosy about where and what I drink

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