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Nice, Old Rasputin is solid. I was a lot more into stouts over the winter - my taste never used to follow the seasons, but in the past year or two, that's changed.

On my way to Barrier brewery today, a long-standing plan that happened to line up with my wife's birthday. I'm dragging her along. Hopefully she finds something she likes, she's not much of a beer drinker. Will update with pics!

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Some friends bought me some "novelty" ales for my birthday and I smiled politely and put them at the back of the fridge hoping the beer fairies would take them. Sadly today I had to break into them. 2 out of the 4 made the drain after a couple of mouthfuls. Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale and Pendle Witches Brew were the victims in question. Top Totty Ale despite having a fucking ridiculous name was palatable. I genuinely can't remember the first one I had.

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I visited with a friend last night - former bandmate and fellow beer connoisseur. Had a bit too much, and not everything got into the photo. Not a bad beer in this batch. Some were easy drinkers rather than standouts. The Founder's, Troegs, and Barrier double IPAs kicked my ass. Great stuff, huge on fresh hop flavors.

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Had a couple of beers last night at the local pub. One was a disappointingly plain IPA, no real depth to it and on the whole nothing like the couple of IPAs I had in the states.

 

The other though was a fantastic red ale from a craft brewer. Strong, but not overwhelmingly so, with a robust flavour - it'd make for a great session beer.

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Celebrating my promotion with some of my favourite beers tonight.  Starting with Pauwel Kwak at 8.4% so could be an early night given it is a 75cl bottle.  Have Westmalle Tripel and La Trappe Witte Trappist which is the first and only white Trappist beer in the world.  Also some Karmeliet Tripel in a box set with two glasses.  The weekend is looking fucking awesome!

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3 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Celebrating my promotion with some of my favourite beers tonight.  Starting with Pauwel Kwak at 8.4% so could be an early night given it is a 75cl bottle.  Have Westmalle Tripel and La Trappe Witte Trappist which is the first and only white Trappist beer in the world.  Also some Karmeliet Tripel in a box set with two glasses.  The weekend is looking fucking awesome!

Is it just me, or are you getting promoted every other month? You're an asset to any team Macabre. You'll go far young man. 

I'm finding these days that on the rare occasions when I go out for a beer I just go for really basic lagers. I don't know what's happened to my palate, but the really hoppy beers don't really do it for me and I end up feeling like a glass of water afterwards. I must be getting back to my working class roots, or my nightly gorging on the hot blood of young wenches from the Castle Requiem estate has ruined my taste...

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2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Arty beer shot! Promotions will stop now I have made Head of the Bloodline. Stick with me Req, you'll go far!39f3fb280b34b42287af8160e9b0a07f.jpg

 

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This is what I'm talking about. Nowadays you go out for a beer and end up being served a science experiment. 

 

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5 hours ago, Requiem said:

This is what I'm talking about. Nowadays you go out for a beer and end up being served a science experiment. 

 

Minus ten internet points for Req!  This is a historic design, so Pauwel Kwak himself had an Inn between Gent and some other major city in Belgium in days of yore.  The coachmen who stopped off were forbidden to leave their carriages unattended so Pauwel designed the above to fit onto the carriages.

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