Christmas Beers 2020, Three

Still a couple of days to go and still two beers but here are the last two I had up to yesterday 

Ridgeway, Reindeer Droppings from England

 

4.7% deep gold in colour with a fast disappearing head, not much aroma and a bit of a sweet taste but ordinary. 

Anchor Brewing, Merry Christmas Happy New Year 2020 from the USA

 

7.0% black in colour with a nice brown head, a sweet plum aroma, the taste is bitter sweet with a hint of licorice. 

Christmas Beers 2020, Two

Here we are then, the next lot of Christmas Beers that I bought online, as I am not going anywhere near the shops for a while.

Silly, Double Enghien d’Hiver from Belgium

 

9.0% a Winter Ale, light amber in colour with a poor head, a spicy alcohol aroma, the taste is fizzy spicy and strong. 

St Peter's, Christmas Ale from England

 

7.0% deep amber in colour with thin head, a sweet fruity aroma and a really nice fruity toffee Christmas taste. 

Humpty Dumpty, Christmas Crackling from England

 

4.5% hazy cold in colour with no head, a spiced aroma and strange spicy taste, not good at all.

Christmas Beers 2020, One

Well here we go again but with not being able to get out this year, all of this years Christmas Beers I tried where bought online. It is unbelievable the amount of beer I have bought online this year and also the amount of dealers I have used online. 

Anyway here are the beers I have tried so far, I will add the others over then next few days.

Ridgeway, Black Elf from England 

 

4.5% black in colour with a thin head, a strange aroma (not very good), also not a very festive taste at all, shame.

8 Sail Brewery, Bobbin Robin from England 

 

5.8% black in colour with a decent brown head, a sweet stout aroma and a licorice stout taste. 

Humpty Dumpty Brewery, Christmas Crack from England

7.0% dark brown in colour with a poor head, a spicy malt aroma, the taste was bitter and spicy. 

Moving into November

Believe it or not, I have had almost as many new beers this year as usual. Although this year, quite a few of the beers have been bought online and there are still a few to get through. 

I have hardly been out of the house since March, except for trips to the Chemist even all of our food shopping has been done online (same as the beer shopping). Aldi and Lidl do not do deliveries, Tesco would not deliver to us as we did not usually get deliveries from them, so we have been using ASDA. I fell out with ASDA a few years back but they have been fantastic over this period.

Anyway back to the beer, 

Anspach & Hobday, The Ordinary Bitter from England

3.7% amber in colour with a thin head, a mild bitter arona and a slightly fizzy bitter taste, loved it as it made a change. 

Anspach & Hobday / Flavourly, The Mild from England

3.6% amber in colour with a poor head, the aroma was slightly acidic and the taste was ok but nothing special. 

Omer Vander Ghinste Brasserie, LeFort Tripel from Belgium

 

8.8% gold in colour with a nice head, bit of banana in the aroma and a nice fruity strong taste. 

By The Horns, Panowow from England

3.8% pale amber in colour with a good head, nice bitter aroma and a nice taste. 

Three from the Loch Lomond brewery

Here are three from the Loch Lomond brewery in Scotland, still more beers to follow shortly. 

Loch Lomond, Lost In Mosaic from Scotland 

5.0% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, fruity hop aroma and a bitter fruit taste. 

Loch Lomond, Silkie Stout from Scotland

5.0% black in colour with a nice head, coffee caramel aroma and a nice stout taste.

Loch Lomond, Bonnie and Blonde from Scotland

4.0% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, it had a citrus aroma and taste.

Carrying on towads the end of September

Well let's get back to these blogs, I have not really had many new beers over the last couple of months but here are the few I have had. I still have many to try and a few more to do after these ones just to catch up. 

Bellfield, Session Ale from Scotland

3.8% deep gold in colour with no head, a sweet aroma but the taste was better than I expected.

Camerons, Shoal from England

4.2% pale blond in colour with a nice head, there is fish in the aroma (could just be the picture) but the taste is a quite good English blond. This one is from my local brewery.

Camerons, True Horizon from England

4.3% gold in colour with a nice head,  a slightly sweet aroma and a nice slightly sweet taste. Another from my local brewery.

Bad co / Flavourly, Handbags & Gladbach from England

4.3% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, a citrus hop aroma and a citrus orange taste. 

Carrying On, with my hobby

I do not think that anyone actually reads these beer blogs, well a tiny few do but as its my hobby, I will just carry on as if they all do.

Here are the last four I had, still in cans and I still have quite a few cans left to try, I have just had some very good beers delivered, these are for general use.

Arcade Beerworks, 4 (New England Session IPA), Scotland

4.5% cloudy gold in colour with a poor head, fruity hop aroma and a similar taste. 

Whitewater, Hallion Red, Northern Ireland

4.2% amber in colour with a good head, a nice beer aroma and good caramel taste. 

Free From, Gluten Free Session IPA, England

4.8% amber in colour with a good head, a malt aroma and some caramel taste. 

Gun Brewery, Scaramanga Pale Ale, England

3.9% gold in colour with no head, fruity aroma, the taste is a bit week. 

Early September in York

Early in September we had a three night visit to York in the Van, most things were almost the same a usual. Other things were very different, and therefore the new beers I found, without mixing with too many other people, was very few. 

The only shop that I went in on our three day visit was a new beer shop, what a waste of time that was, small cans for well over £4.00, most over £5.00 and some beers were a lot more.

I will mention the couple of new beers I tried but will also cover what I really enjoyed drinking without thinking.

Peroni, Tradizione E Qualità from Italy

 

4.7% gold in colour with a thin head, a malt aroma and taste.

Black Sheep, 54 Lager from England

5.4% pale gold in colour with a nice head, a malt aroma and a nice lager taste.

And what I drank for the rest of the time, was German, not new photos as I have had them all before. 

Schneider, Weisse TAP7 Unser Original from Germany

 

5.4% cloudy brown colour (dark for a wheat beer, almost the colour of a dunkel weisse) with a thin head, nice banana aroma, taste is slightly bitter with some banana, it is good but a bit lacking in body (not sure I agree with that description anymore).

Weihenstephan, Hefe Weissbier,from Germany 

 

5.4% cloudy pail yellow colour with a thin head, very good wheat beer aroma and taste. We had this in two of the drinking places we used. 

Carrying on in to September

The first of these was actually drank on the last day of August but let's not worry about that. 

By The Horns, Cosmic Warrior from England

4.5% hazy god in colour with a thin head, fruity hop aroma and a hoppy taste.

71 Brewing, Cloud Fall from Scotland

4.5% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and a mild citrus taste. 

Downstream, Token from Northern Ireland

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a poor head, a citrus hop aroma and a bitter hop taste.

Appleby, Midlife Crisis from England

 

4.2% amber in colour with a thin head, a sweet mild aroma and nice caramel taste.

By The Horns, West End Pils from England

4.0% cloudy gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity lager aroma and a bitter taste. 

Some Black Isle Beers

Back in August I had four canned beers from Black Isle Brewing Co, quite a good Scottish brewer. Three of these beers are made in collaboration with Flavourly.

Flavourly / Black Isle, Session IPA from Scotland

 

3.5% slightly hazy gold in colour with a thin head, not much aroma, the taste is quite good though, not too much hopps at all.

Flavourly / Black Isle, APA from Scotland

 

4.0% slightly hazy amber in colour with a thin head, a sweet malt aroma, a good bitter taste.

Flavourly / Black Isle, APA from Scotland

 

4.2% slightly hazy gold in colour with a thin head, fruity hop aroma, with a mild hoppy taste.

Black Isle, Spider Monkey from Scotland

5.2% slightly hazy gold in colour with a thin head,  a fruity aroma, with a fruity hop taste.