Eddie

Luckily my abstinence means my meagre 30 bottles are lasting till summer.  

Seeing as it appears to be BOE or nothing, I've put an order in.
Het Kapittel ABT 750ml
Het Kapittel Prior 750ml
Kasteel Cuvee du Chateau 750ml
Kasteel Dunkel 750ml
Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel 750ml
Lindemans / Mikkeller Spontanbasil 750ml
De Dochter van de Korenaar Crime Passionnel
Van Eecke Cuvee Watou
Ter Dolen Armand
La Biere des Collines Quintine Ambree
Scotch Silly
Bush/Scaldis Ambree
De Ryck Arend Tripel
Noir de Dottignies
Leffe 9 Rituel
Bonsecours Blonde
Boerken Belgisch Bier
Caracole Ambree
Schlenkerla Rauchbier
Schlenkerla Rauchweizen
Weltenburger Hefe-weissbier Dunkel
Anarchy The Great Elmyra
O Brother Bat Country
Mad Dog Wee Heavy

It is indeed the magical Leicestershire Trappist holy water.
Just a few pence over £60 for 24 bottles and free delivery. I got a box a couple of weeks ago, so I'm sorted at the moment. We usually have 3 orders a month from BoE - a box of (mainly) German for the missus, a box for me and 15 or 16 75 cl bottles for afternoon sharing.
I did a 'short and sweet' review last year...
It certainly has grown on me - the beer has improved by leaps and bounds since they started the brewery at the monastery in 2017 or 2018, and it is truly worthy of the Trappist badge and is, in my opinion, world class. I would place it as the equal of Westmalle Dubbel or Chimay Blue. Not in Westvleteren class yet, but what else is (apart from possibly St Bernardus Abt 12 or Rochefort 10).

I was watching the launch of SN9 on Fark.
Straight after the big badaboom, the funniest comment was simply "Next!"

It is indeed the magical Leicestershire Trappist holy water.
Just a few pence over £60 for 24 bottles and free delivery. I got a box a couple of weeks ago, so I'm sorted at the moment. We usually have 3 orders a month from BoE - a box of (mainly) German for the missus, a box for me and 15 or 16 75 cl bottles for afternoon sharing.
I did a 'short and sweet' review last year...
It certainly has grown on me - the beer has improved by leaps and bounds since they started the brewery at the monastery in 2017 or 2018, and it is truly worthy of the Trappist badge and is, in my opinion, world class. I would place it as the equal of Westmalle Dubbel or Chimay Blue. Not in Westvleteren class yet, but what else is (apart from possibly St Bernardus Abt 12 or Rochefort 10).

The Kulmbacher Eisbock is excellent.

What a coincidence!!!! we drank a bottle of this tonight and my wife Kristin reviewed it on the Beers Of Europe website. What a fantastic beer. Can also recommend the Kloster Scheyern Doppelbock which we had the other day

Make sure you save some for the cricket season.

A very eloquent review and certainly makes me want to try it!

I shared a bottle of Kloster Andechs Doppelbock Dunkel with the Memsahib earlier today. Boy, what an absolutely fabulous beer. I was even inspired to review it (I write lots of reviews for Beers of Europe, and get a few free bottles off them)...
 

I was planning on having this for the 2nd half tonight, but the disappointment of the postponement has convinced me to crack it open earlier! A tasty wee dram

This is what it looked like when it finished cooking...

It tasted very nice, although the mace tended to overpower the other flavours. Note to self - half a teaspoon is too much.

Pie tonight.

Chicken, bacon, leek, chestnut and king oyster mushrooms.
The above pic is before it went into the oven. I didn't have a pie cone so substituted a salt cellar.

Pie tonight.

Chicken, bacon, leek, chestnut and king oyster mushrooms.
The above pic is before it went into the oven. I didn't have a pie cone so substituted a salt cellar.

No problem with screw caps for a still wine. It wouldn't work for a bottle-conditioned beer though. Saying that, 40 years ago, my go-to drink-at-home beer was Trent bitter. That had a screw cap.

This is what it looked like when it finished cooking...

It tasted very nice, although the mace tended to overpower the other flavours. Note to self - half a teaspoon is too much.

Screw cap?
Peasant.

I thought that was one of your beer bottles sticking out of the pie. 

We had the ceremonial tasting of the pork pie this morning. Absolutely lovely.

Not eating these tonight, but will definitely sample part of one tomorrow.
I decided to try my hand today at making a hand-raised pork pie (actually, I made two). In the process, I test-drove my new meat grinder - perhaps the best £25 I've spent recently that wasn't on beer. I must have read about 10 methods, and all the recipes were vastly different as far as the hot water pastry was concerned. Some had twice as much lard as water, some had twice as much water as lard, and so on. 
Another issue was making the pastry case separate to the pie, by using a jar, bottle, dish or anything like that as a mould, then putting it in the fridge until the pastry hardened, then trying to remove the (uncooked) pastry from the outside of the mould without breaking/damaging it. In the end, I decided to just roll the pastry out, mould the meat into the dimensions I wanted and then hand-raise the pastry around that. It seemed to work fine.

Pie tonight.

Chicken, bacon, leek, chestnut and king oyster mushrooms.
The above pic is before it went into the oven. I didn't have a pie cone so substituted a salt cellar.

Lost In Space (2018 series on Netflix).
Only a couple of episodes in so far - and for the benefit of old Sunday afternoon SF fans, the robot does say "Danger, Will Robinson" more than once. Dr Smith hasn't arrived on the scene yet.

I'm a dab hand at pork pies now. I've made 4.

I had a Scottish night last night. A bottle of McEwan's Champion and a bottle of Innis & Gunn Blood Red Sky.

I treated myself to a few of these from Dancing Duck just before Christmas and the midweek win seemed like a good excuse to drink one.
A great beer with just an extra kick added by the barrel-aging.
Definitely recommended!