rembrow Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 While on holiday in Northumberland a couple of weeks ago, came across this traditional North East brown ale in the local Co-op at Alnwick and Longhoughton and brought several bottles back home. The original Maxim and Double Maxim beers were brewed by Vaux brewery from 1901 to celebrate the safe return of the Northumberland Hussars maxim gun detachment from the Boer War. They were commanded by a member of the Vaux family. Maxim brewery was set up by some ex Vaux staff after the brewery closed and they started with the Double Maxim brew. They now have their own brewery at Houghton-le-Spring and aim to produce previous brews from Vaux and Wards breweries. This one is very warm and delicious. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tractionman Posted October 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 18, 2017 Very tasty brew from Windsor and Eton Brewery. Cheers, Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Football match over and eventually dried out after a rainy night- Cropton brewery's experimental Golden ale 4% tonight! 2000 flavour profiles all from UK hops so a unique flavour to each bottle -and record breaking too boot! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tractionman Posted October 21, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2017 Tonight I am mostly drinking Wold Top Scarborough Fair IPA Yum. Cheers, Keith 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted October 23, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2017 DSC_1135.JPG Tonight I am mostly drinking Wold Top Scarborough Fair IPA Yum. Cheers, Keith And at 6% plus, a pretty heavy brew, one of my favourites, and a delicious hoppiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2017 Not usually a big fan of Wychwood. But quite impressed by the peculiarly-named Ripsaw which I had two pints of with Sunday lunch at a pub in Wimborne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Tonight's tipple after a 5-2 hammering at football is another of the Black Sheep fold- Black Sheep ale 4.4% another Yorkshire classic from the Masham brewery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Excellent lunchtime session at the Norwich Beer Festival yesterday - very enjoyable with a Herts Cider Millers Dance, a Davenport Highgate Old, a Hammerton Blank Slate, a Hoxne Heritage Old Ale, and a Lacons Old Nogg - all half pints I hasten to add though I am pleased I had a lift home. now shall I return tomorrow????? Glug, glug, glug, glug..................................... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted October 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2017 Delivered some wine last night to the new micropub in Queen's Road, Westbourne. Pleased to find that they have a session bitter at just 2.8%. Can't remember the last time that I drank a beer that was that low in alcohol! Really pleasant and full flavoured light bitter: Half Mast from Siren Brewery in Finchampstead. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Torper Posted October 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2017 (edited) I went to the Angus Brewfest in Forfar last weekend. It was absolutel heaving, with plenty of drink stalls selling locally produced beers, gin, vodka and, in one case, rum. It was a tenner to get in (and it was sold out a long time ago) and the beer prices were, to my mind, extortionate, with several vendors charging their captive audience £5 a pint, others £4. I tended to concentrate on the latter although the beer i enjoyed most all evening was probably "Day Shift", an American Pale Ale from Fierce Brewery in Aberdeen. It must have been good because it was one of the ones at a fiver and i had a pint and a half of it. Close second was Redcastle Brewery's Nobleman which was a more reasonable £4. On getting home afterwards I felt rather unwell, the first time that's happened to me for a long time! DT Edited October 28, 2017 by Torper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Stopped over to see No 2 Son in Leamington on Friday. Tried a pint of Purity Brewing Co’s Pure Gold, very pleasing! I’m quite a fan of these “golden ales” that are appearing lately. I was never a lager fan, I occasionally drink Becks or Nastro Azzuro but it isn’t really my thing. Golden ales seem more like a proper beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birds+and+bees+beer&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwippNLz6JbXAhVEbVAKHf2vDdQQ_AUIEygC&biw=768&bih=905&dpr=2#imgrc=vUMPcSABgsIR8M: Whilst on holiday in Fife, origin of Mrs steve1 steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted October 31, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 31, 2017 Excellent lunchtime session at the Norwich Beer Festival yesterday - very enjoyable with a Herts Cider Millers Dance, a Davenport Highgate Old, a Hammerton Blank Slate, a Hoxne Heritage Old Ale, and a Lacons Old Nogg - all half pints I hasten to add though I am pleased I had a lift home. now shall I return tomorrow????? Glug, glug, glug, glug..................................... Ah yes, in St Andrew's Hall. I was heading for Elm Street just as the queue was being admitted, and after SWMBO's big spend in the teddy shop, I would have easily spent less at the beerfest. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 An absolute peach of a Porter from Nick Staffords -Hambleton Ales, Nightmare Porter at 5%. A beautifully balanced Porter -bought for my wife who loved it and I managed to sneak a quick taste as a bonus! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 ".......Ah yes, in St Andrew's Hall. I was heading for Elm Street just as the queue was being admitted, and after SWMBO's big spend in the teddy shop, I would have easily spent less at the beerfest....." Had you spent your share in the beerfest there would be a good chance you would not have worried about SWMBO spend in the teddy bear shop in Elm Hill - which is, of course, a place where Monty Pyton filmed some sketches. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Had another bottle of Campo Viejo Cava on yesterday's alcohack, following a successful test last weekend. This weekend's one seemed a bit stronger than last week's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wollastonblue Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Well yesterday comprised of Coastal Brewerys Hop Monster (3.7%), and Golden Hind (4.3%), with a couple of Fownes Elephant Riders (4%) in between. Friday involved some Thornbridge Jaipur (5.9%). My local has just been named in the top 4 pubs in the country by CAMRA! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted November 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2017 Tonight my entry to currently drinking is a cautionary tale. Having many times enjoyed Staropramen as an inexpensive, proper imported pilsner from the Czech republic, i opened a bottle tonight and it's ruined. Its been bought up by a brand acquisition company in Burton on trent and is now "brewed in the EU" As a result it is nothing like a pilsner, and is horrible. It has a tangy aftertaste and the mass produced lager tang. Avoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I used to like Sapporo, a Japanese lager in an unusual shaped silver can. We bought it at the Chinese supermarket in Manchester. I don't buy it anymore as it is now brewed in the UK and tastes like any old lager - still expensive though. There are many such beers & lagers, just the same old shyte in a fancy can / bottle. Look carefully at the label !! Supping now a can of John Smith's, to be followed by a Guinness or two. Guinness in cans - still a decent drink BUT (and it might be me) it's just not the same as it was years ago. Then again, is anything ?? Cheers !! Brit15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinZaPint Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 On a recent trip which included a visit to Bratislava our guide pointed at what she called "Beer street" guess where I went after the tour Looking for local brews I went into a lovely drinking den, the list and selected Steiger @ 11% A lovely beer with a good depth of flavour, ok it's in the wrong glass but the Urpiner is also very good, a conventional lager style and the other half rated the cider very highly so I was allowed time to enjoy myself! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted November 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2017 Tonight my entry to currently drinking is a cautionary tale. Having many times enjoyed Staropramen as an inexpensive, proper imported pilsner from the Czech republic, i opened a bottle tonight and it's ruined. Its been bought up by a brand acquisition company in Burton on trent and is now "brewed in the EU" As a result it is nothing like a pilsner, and is horrible. It has a tangy aftertaste and the mass produced lager tang. Avoid Very sad. Yet another fine brand exploited (and wrecked). I am old enough to remember proper Danish Tuborg. So this massacring of beer flavours has been going on for a long time. Consumers should be protected from these rip-offs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted November 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2017 Guinness in cans - still a decent drink BUT (and it might be me) it's just not the same as it was years ago. Then again, is anything ?? Cheers !! Brit15 Agreed. Guinness in cans used to be more like the draught. Now it's a bit sweeter, more like the bottled. I think they are reacting to the likes of Murphy's. And as for that newish lower-strength canned Guinness - YUK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark374 Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Had a bottle of American Shipyard IPA on Sunday, not a bad dram, got some Coniston Brewing Co Bluebird Bitter i might have later in the week and a bottle of Spitfire Gold which I rather enjoy, Tempted to buy a bottle of Old Putney Whiskey one week £30 a bottle is a bit steep for me but at the rate i drink it it may last a month or two Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 A beer from the Hartlep**l brewery Cameron's- A-hop-alypseNow 4.3% powerfully hopped bitter and proof that there can be something good to come from Hartlep**l (football aside). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinZaPint Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Tonight my entry to currently drinking is a cautionary tale. Having many times enjoyed Staropramen as an inexpensive, proper imported pilsner from the Czech republic, i opened a bottle tonight and it's ruined. Its been bought up by a brand acquisition company in Burton on trent and is now "brewed in the EU" As a result it is nothing like a pilsner, and is horrible. It has a tangy aftertaste and the mass produced lager tang. Avoid Prompted by this post I dug my memento out given to me by the steward at the club back in the days when it was well worth drinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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