Ninjas that know about beer

[esfandyar]

pliny is super easy for me to get, but the closest spot has a 1 bottle per day limit... could hit up the brewery if enough people are craving

Im on mobile right now, ill snap some pics to open up some trade discussion, im definitely interested

hi buddy

[kruptah]

Been enjoying this one all summer long, from a local brewery.

Better then Guinness.

[kidshuffle]

i'll have to try that one, but im not really too fond of the mill street beers i've had.

[kruptah]

i'll have to try that one, but im not really too fond of the mill street beers i've had.

The only one I've ever had was Mill St Organic and it wasn't all that great to be honest.

Their Coffee Porter looks good though: http://millstreetbrewery.com/#/ourbeers ... ee-porter/

[knell]

pliny is super easy for me to get, but the closest spot has a 1 bottle per day limit... could hit up the brewery if enough people are craving

Im on mobile right now, ill snap some pics to open up some trade discussion, im definitely interested

hi buddy

of course since i typed that around lunchtime, when i stopped at the close store on the way home the pliny shelf was bare.... but that means when it comes back i can catch it less than a week old

i'll be headed back around the brewery soon enough, ill keep you posted

[slothrop]

UK people who like saisons - check out Poppyland's stuff if you see it anywhere:
http://www.poppylandbeer.com/
Not cheap, but very nice and quite unusual for a UK brewer. Their dry-hopped saisons are excellent, and the other stuff I've had from them has been good too.

In other news, I'm off tonight to try som Westy 8 that a mate's got hold of. Taking along Traquair Jacobite, Thornbridge Bracia, Dark Abbey from Top Out (*PLUG* http://topoutbrewery.com/ new scottish micro, a mate of mine is one of the two brewers), and picking up some other Belgian stuff on the way...

Grim hangover incoming...

[Riddles]

this is so nice, drinking it all this week

[MrBlack]

York beer festival is next week for those northern ale drinkers amongst us.

[Liam92]

Schneider Weisse Tap 7 last night, wow, so damn nice! Probably my favourite Schneider Weisse I've had

[knell]

just got back from the great american beer fest... holy shit.

[forbidden]

just got back from the great american beer fest... holy shit.

that must have been a treat.

any serious IPA fans here?

[gwa]

just got back from the great american beer fest... holy shit.

saw the pics, looked tasty.

we need to get on this beer trade shit guys.

are you on facebook? would be easier

[lloydnoise]

just got back from the great american beer fest... holy shit.

that must have been a treat.

any serious IPA fans here?

yes, I am very serious about my IPAs

highly recommend M&S Citra for anyone in the UK

[gwa]

just got back from the great american beer fest... holy shit.

that must have been a treat.

any serious IPA fans here?

yes, I am very serious about my IPAs

highly recommend M&S Citra for anyone in the UK

the m&s citra is banging, especially for the price.

i only really stick to ipa's tbth

[slothrop]

We tried Mikkeller 1000 IBU round at Slothrop Towers the other night.

It was good. Gimmicky for sure, but still tasty. Very hoppy, as you'd expect, but not a million miles from more mainstream stuff like Oakham Green Devil IPA or Stone Ruination.

[gwa]

i'm sure the m&s citra is the same as oakhams citra? sure
i got told that albeit probably pissed.

oakhams green devil is the one! local pub recently got a few barrels which is great to say they ran out of one of te ingredients the make it recently.

cheap, tastes good and is a nice %.

had some of the mad hatter brewing company's beers last week. a relatively new brewery from liverpool.

their down the rabbit hole is a nice strong hoppy red ipa. good strong 10% too.

their mosaic saison was top draw as well for a sour, but i think that was limited to port street in manchester only as a distributor.

would recommend UK folk to give it a spin!

do like mikkeller but quite hard to come by as brew dog have bought the rights to sell it.

[esfandyar]

do like mikkeller but quite hard to come by as brew dog have bought the rights to sell it.

where did you hear this gwa?

[gwa]

do like mikkeller but quite hard to come by as brew dog have bought the rights to sell it.

where did you hear this gwa?

ah i mean you can only really buy it in a brew dog pub. they've bought the rights to sell it IIRC

if people want to buy it to sell then they have to go through brew dog

[slothrop]

Didn't know about this, but having done a bit of research it looks like Brewdog have secured excloose UK importing and distribution rights for Mikkeller's stuff.

There seems to be a bit of debate as to whether this has resulted in prices going up, the range of stuff available changing or what.

Article here:
http://www.boozebeatsbites.com/2013/05/ ... bacle.html

There's some fairly lively discussion in the comments, also featuring a good rant from someone with the valid point that it's a bit fucking rich of Brewdog to keep going on about how "punk" they are when they're offering Tesco discounted rates so they can continue to undercut independents.

[gwa]

that's it.

brew dog could not be further away from the word punk of they tried.