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19 Crimes, is lovely cheap red.
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Beaver town Neck Oil Session IPA

Never had it before, quite nice.
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Drinking a lot at the moment.

Need to get on top of it.
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Green king Coronation Ale.
Not a bad pint
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Innis & Gunn Lager Beer.

Noice!
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S-H wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 4:47 pm Drinking a lot at the moment.

Need to get on top of it.
S-H wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 5:42 pm Innis & Gunn Lager Beer.

Noice!
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dasnutnock3 wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 7:56 pm Giving it your all, I see 🤣
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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (the green label one) is mindblowingly good stuff if you like super bitterness.

So I jumped at the chance to try their 'California IPA' when I saw it in the big Tesco near me also.

Lovely drop. Proper brewer.
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I seem to recall that most of the beer sold in Prague ranges from good to very good.
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r99c wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 8:57 pm Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (the green label one) is mindblowingly good stuff if you like super bitterness.

So I jumped at the chance to try their 'California IPA' when I saw it in the big Tesco near me also.

Lovely drop. Proper brewer.
These are excellent beers and have been a gateway into me trying loads of different craft beer.

Vocation, Life and Death is another one that is a good introduction to craft beer. A decent 6.5% ABV IPA.
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Appears Clarkson's releasing a low/no alcohol beer soon. Looking forward to trying a few of them, have heard good things about his boozy stuff.
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Went to Camra's 41st Lincoln beer festival at the Drill Hall Lincoln yesterday. It was a decent, if much smaller event than their Pigs' Ear one in London. I went on the Saturday and it was sad to see about 50% of the beers were sold out. Makes mental note - next year go on a Friday.

Upon entry I was told my non Camra entrance fee was £5.00 Plus £2.00 for the glass. And a mandatory £10 purchase of beer tokens - total entrance fee therefore was £17.00 not the £5 as advertised. I felt slightly that a bait and switch had taken place.

I joint Camra as I was there (£30 for a year) and I got 4 half pint free beer tokens for the festival. Not too dhabby.

When i asked what beers were vegan, the bar manager had a list and I thought it was going to be a faff asking him every time I wanted a beer. I mentioned this to a very helpful lady on the Carmra desk and quick as a flash, she went and got a beer list, went behind the bar, got the main beer list and very kindly marked all the vegan beers on it for my useage! Top customer service!

I drank seven 1/2 pints of various beers, some nice, some average and some not nice at all. I was surprised to discover that the overall trend of brewers IMHO is to revisit the old style bitters, so much so that they have created a more harsh, acidic beer with a metalic aftertaste. I won't list them here (unless someone wants me too) but I thought I was safe with a weiss beer, but unfortunately that turned out to be the worst of the lot - bitter, caustic, overly sharp with a nasty aftertaste.It wasn't just me that tought so - a bloke I don't know bought the same weiss beer as me and I asked him what he thought - and he totally repeated my assessment.

An added bonus was an outside seating areas, which meant you could drink your beer whilst sitting in the sun.

All in all a decent festival, well run with nice people. I'm definately going next years - but ths time on a Friday.
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love to keep up on this thread even though about 105% of the beers are unavailable to me

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even so, it's a great read.

and for GCRO I can't figure how to post on the YouTube channel but I hope that your health continues to improve even though it means not so many reviews these days !!!!!

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Local Sainbury selling four bottles of Estrella Galicia at half price £2 79.
It's not as good as Damm but in this heat its passable in a bland kind of way
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Asda were selling 4 330ml cans of Cobra for £1.72 last week.

Yeah I know it's not the finest lager ever but for that price they went down well on Bank Holiday Monday.

Only got another 8 packs left :tune:
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Red Leg spiced rum is very nice. But the nicest spirit I've had in the last few years is glenlivet single malt scotch aged in carribean rum casks.
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Thursday - I had 4 pints of Amstel in the pub (I refused to pay £5.50 a pint for Beevertown's Neck Oil) and then I pint of Perry in doors. Perry C/O Lidil - £6.00+ for three litres in a box!
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WHU Independent wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:50 pm Thursday - I had 4 pints of Amstel in the pub (I refused to pay £5.50 a pint for Beevertown's Neck Oil) and then I pint of Perry in doors. Perry C/O Lidil - £6.00+ for three litres in a box!
Neck Oil currently sells for £6.40 a pint in Frank's pub in Wanstead.
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I was given 6 bottles of Helles Augustiner for helping someone with some stuff, my word, what a fine beer that is, went down a treat in this sunshine.
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Been on Vocation's Life & Death during todays game, on a hot sunny day it's fruity, hoppy wonderfulness hits the spot
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