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Eddie got a reaction from Crewton in Beer Thread
The Memsahib and I shared a 75cl bottle of Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel in the garden this afternoon.
Now that's my idea of relaxation.
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Eddie got a reaction from sage in Beer Thread
The Memsahib and I shared a 75cl bottle of Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel in the garden this afternoon.
Now that's my idea of relaxation.
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Eddie reacted to Scott129 in Beer Thread
I actually know one of the Molson Coors 'Brand Development Managers', or whatever they're called, who worked on Madri's promotion.
Before it blew up, he said that that we would soon be seeing it everywhere. I had never even heard of it at the time.
I get the impression that they've just poured a ton of money into it, and prioritised more modern influencer/social media-driven campaigns.
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Eddie reacted to NG2Ram in Beer Thread
10 days in Prague, 63 new beers, 25 new breweries plus numerous past beers and past breweries, 1 beer festival (Karlstejn) and 1 impromptu brewery tour (Cobolis). Time to come home for a rest ???????????? Standout beer of the trip Rodinny Pivovar Vik Wildberry Sorbet 13⁰ 4.9%. Award winning (3rd place at XXXI. International Beer Festival Golden Beer Seal 2021) Berliner Weiss style beer, full of strawberry, blackberry and raspberry flavours which come together nicely to balance the acidic sourness. Probably the easiest drinking sour that I've ever come across.
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Eddie got a reaction from dog in Beer Thread
Good question.
It's actually very difficult to define a 'sour' beer beyond 'a beer that tastes acidic'.
Technically, a fruit beer would be classified as sour, especially if the base fruit is cherry or raspberry, and of course 'dry' ciders could at a pinch satisfy that simple criterion.
Belgium (you just knew I'd mention my favourite brewing country, didn't you?) is home to several 'sour' beer styles, notably gueuze, lambic and Flemish red beers. Basically the sourness from those comes from the yeasts used in the fermentation process. Although the Flemish red beers are fermented using a cultured yeast, the lambic beers ferment spontaneously via atmospheric yeasts (I mentioned ciders earlier - they are fermented using the yeasts that live on the outside of the skin of the apples, which is why when they fall off the trees and start to rot, wasps get a bit loopy and drunk from feeding on them). You might hear sour beer enthusiasts refer to 'Brett' - this is short for Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, the 'natural' atmospheric yeast found in the Brussels region in winter and spring.
To me, a really good lambic or gueuze (a mix of several years of lambic beers which are blended together) is every bit as good as a classic Champagne.
I would recommend the following if you want to try some...
Gueuzes: Boon Gueuze Mariage Parfait, 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze, Cantillon Gueuze Lou Pepe (the last two are probably difficult to get in the UK, but Boon Gueuze is sometimes to be found in Waitrose.
Flemish/Flanders Reds: Rodenbach Grand Cru, Bourgogne Des Flandres, Duchesse De Bourgogne
Fruit beers: If you can get them, 3 Fonteinen and Cantillon brew some utterly magnificent fruit beers, again using the 'traditional' spontaneous fermentation process. Boon Kriek (cherries) is on sale at Tesco - 4 x 25cl bottles for £6. They also sell Bacchus Kriek, and Morrisons and Sainsburys sell Bacchus Framboise (raspberries) at about £2.50 for a 37.5 cl bottle.
Some beers which are not normally referred to as 'sour' also use 'Brett' in their brewing process - usually an injection of 'Brett' is made during the secondary fermentation process in the bottle. This is true for Orval, and it is also true for Straffe Hendrik Wild. This starts life as Straffe Hendrik Tripel (ask @sage - he loves that) - then an injection of Brett and 3 months later, you get Straffe Hendrik Wild (and I love that, but @sage hates it). It's the same basic beer, but the 'souring' effect of the Brett is quite striking.
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Eddie got a reaction from i-Ram in Beer Thread
Tried one yesterday.
The kindest thing I can say is that I will never write those three words again.
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Eddie reacted to Curtains in The Administration Thread
They will buy the Stadium and lease it out at favorable rates to CK .
Think it’s brilliant
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Eddie reacted to sage in Surviving on £1 a day for food and drink
Thanks @David and Ben.
At £870 now.
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Eddie got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Holiday Plans 2022
None planned any more. All cancelled.
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Eddie reacted to Red_Dawn in Adventures of Sloth, Jon Moss and their band of Merry men.
Hes one of your own ?
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Eddie reacted to i-Ram in The Ukraine War
Quite amusing gaffe by GWB - a bit of light relief given what is still happening over IN Ukraine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61505050
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Eddie reacted to G STAR RAM in The Administration Thread
If the league table does not lie then surely it is Huddersfield that deserve to go up as they finished ahead of Forest?
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Eddie reacted to hintonsboots in The Administration Thread
Heard today it is a joint venture between French connection (FC UK) and the actor Mel Gibson. Will renamed the FC UK Gibson stadium.?
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Eddie reacted to ck- in The Administration Thread
I still remember the “We’ll be back in 81” shirts!
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