What beer are we drinking this week ?

Just had a 'Dead Pony Club' and also a 'Hurricane Jack' by Fyne Ales; both are similar, to my mind anyway - would probably plump for the Hurricane.........enjoyed both quite a bit though.

Yeah its an amazing beer, Mikkeller do a lot of aging of beers, wonder if we will get other nice ones in the future.

Anybody tried Odells Deconstruction ale ? Its aged in red wine barrels too, but is rather expensive.

The Franciscan Well Coffee Porter is nice. Strong coffee taste isn't letting me the porter have much identity, but it's a pleasant drink, all the same.

Just trying Young's Double Chocolate Stout for the first time. Really enjoying it.

The smell is a rich chocolate, with fruity hops, but perhaps my nose is blocked as it is very faint. I ended up dipping my nose into it accidentally trying to get closer and closer for a good whiff. Very dark stout, slight reddish tint, beige head which started big as a stout should, but receded very quickly. Good bit of lacing.

The first taste I got from drinking it was coffee, very pleasant and strong, with a taste of real dark chocolate coming in almost straight away. Very smooth, though slightly watery - it wouldn't be as stout as the likes of Beamish, but it's not so watery that it's just like any porter; it is a stout.

At the beginning, I could feel a lot of carbonation, but that subsided straight away. There's a very gentle tickle of carbonation.

It's a good kind of creamy, as you'd expect from a stout as opposed to some English bitters. Chocolatey finish. Not much of a boozey taste. (Edit: I actually quite like a bit of a boozey taste, but with this it did not take away from it that there was none)

It even leaves a lovely taste to the belch after...

Ravelleman wrote: »

I find Hurricane Jack to be much fresher in flavour than Dead Pony Club. The latter is quite nice but it has a kind of resin-like quality to the hops. Hurricane Jack is crisper too. Must get another bottle of that one of these days.

Ya, agreed, it's definitely fresher tasting and slightly fruitier than DPC. Had another bottle of DPC last night and found that there was an unpleasantly bitter aftertaste from it - sort of like the powdery taste you get from a paracetamol or something like that.

Having a Fullers Winter Ale this evening.

Disaster with my one totel of Hoptimum last night. My mate was over for a bite to eat.
I came downstairs from putting the little one to bed and he was sipping a beer. Went into the kitchen to find an empty bottle of Hoptimum on the counter but there was a Sierra Nevada carrier with a few of their beers in the fridge.
"Nice one," I thought "he brought some too"
Opened the fridge and couldn't find my own bottle.
Went into the living room where my wife cheerily said "I just told him to take whatever he wanted"

Him ->

Me -> :mad:

St Peter's organic ale, reminds of the o Shea aldi pale. Was on special in tesco for 1.70

Doggie style, reminds me v much of brewdogs punk