Beer from France in August 2021

It is now October, and I have not written anything on here since July.  I have been away twice since then,  I was away in France for a week in August and down in Cornwall early in September.  I have also had a lot of new beers over that time as well, it's just that I haven't been on here.

Over the last two days I had four of the beers I bought in France, so I will restart with them.

Mira, Olympic White from France

 

4.2% hazy yellow in colour with a thin head, a sweet yeast aroma, a sweet tarty taste. 

Mira, Black Owl Sun from France

 

5.2% hazy amber in colour with a poor head, a nice aroma and a good amber taste. 

Mira, Rimshot Blond from France

 

4.6% hazy gold in colour with no head, a nice yeast aroma, the taste was quite good. 

Mira, Rhéa, from France

 

4.8% hazy pale gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity aroma and very fizzy bitter sweet slightly orange taste. 

Our Girl Lucie

Specially branded to raise money for my daughters niece Lucie, who was very badly injured while helping her mother out of a smoke filled car.  

She was hit by a tractor (that did not stop) and has been in hospital since the 27th of January. 

Wensleydale, Our Girl Lucie from England

4.1% gold colour with thin head head, citrus hop and sight caramel aroma, cirrus hop (orange) taste.

Wensleydale, Our Girl Lucie, is available in the Queens Head, Kirkby Malzeard and the Bruce Arms, Masham, both in North Yorkshire.

The End Of June, 2021

I started June well and thought I would have plenty of new beers for the month. I didn't, in fact I had two new beers at the very end of June. So here they are. 

North Brewing Co, Lost Cosmonauts from England

6.0% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, fruity hop aroma, the taste was not too hoppy. 

Vocation, Life & Death from England

6.5% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, another hoppy fruity aroma and a hoppy taste.

First new ones from June 2021

The first BBQ around ours with new beers was at the beginning of the month. I still have plenty of the Isle of Skye beers to get through though but they will wait.

Salt, Jute Session IPA from England 

4.2% cloudy gold with a nice head, fruity aroma and smooth hop and fruit taste. 

Magic Rock, Murk-Life Balance from England

5.8% hazy amber in colour with a good head, a hoppy fruity aroma a hoppy fruity taste.

Hawkshead, Session Hazy from England

4.5% very hazy pail gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity hop aroma and taste.

Surprise for May 2021

Well I though I would not have any new beers at all this month, I was getting sick of all the very cloudy, very hoppy, very poor new beers that I have been getting by post over this lockdown.     

In the end though I ordered some more beers, from a Scottish brewer on the Isle of Skye and although they looked good online, I have had some pretty poor Scottish beers in the past. 

Well as I work my way through them, they are surprisingly nice up until now, I do still have a few more to go (I did buy all the different beers they do) but up until now I am very pleased indeed. 

The brewer is the, Isle of Skye Brewing Co.

Isle of Skye, Skye Gold from Scotland

 

4.3% gold in colour with a thin head, it had a nice aroma and a good bitter taste. 

Isle of Skye, Skye Red from Scotland

 

4.2% deep amber or red in colour with a thin head, nice malt aroma and a nice mild taste.

Isle of Skye, Skye Blaven from Scotland 

4.7% light amber in colour with a thin head, a light malt aroma and a malty taste.

Beers from April 2021

April was a very poor month for new beers, probably the worst month since I started doing this blog.  I have looked and there are only three new beers for the whole month. 

Brewdog, Barnard Castle Eye Test from Scotland

6.0% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and fruity hop taste. If you do not get the title of this beer, where have yo been. 

Vocation, Tr-Hop-Ical from England

5.7% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and a fruity citrus taste.

De Halve Maan, Straffe Hendrik Brugs Tripel Bier 9° from Belgium

 

9.0% hazy gold in colour with a good head, a tangy fruity bitter aroma, the taste is sweet and strong.  

The rest of March 2021

As usual at this time, I have not had many new beers over the last month but I have has some. There are only five all together, so here we go.

De Halve Maan, Brugse Zot, Belgium

 

6.0% deep amber in colour with a nice head, a nice fruity aroma and a fizzy but nice taste.  Had this one before back in 2007, in Bruges, I even had it in the brewery but there is no write up (also the brewery was closed for tours). Brugse Zot translates as Bruges Fools.

 

De Kazematten, The Wipers Times 14 from Belgium

 

6.2% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, it had a sweet aroma and a nice but sweet taste. 

And Union, Saturday Lager from Germany

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, there was not much aroma but a nice sweet lager taste. 

And Union, Sunday Pale Ale from Germany

5.5% deep gold in colour with a nice head, a slight hop aroma and a hoppy taste. 

De Ryck, Arend Tripel from Belgium

 

8.0% slightly hazy gold in colour with a thin head, fruity aroma, it had a strong fizzy taste.

How many beers?

Since around 2007, I have had a lot of different beers, the actual amount is unbelievable, around 2,790. My photo collection has a lot more photos than that, around 5384 altogether.

I have photos of,

2289 English Beers

486 Belgian Beers

455 French Beers

324 German Beers

284 Scottish Beers

143 North American Beers

108 Dutch Beers

78 Welsh Beers

56 Asian Beers

46 Scandinavian Beers

44 Czech Beers

40 Polish Beers

38 Italian Beers

38 Irish Beers

34 Spanish Beers

32 South Central American Beers

26 Australasian Beers

26 Greek Beers

15 African Beers

11 Lithuanian Beers

And

6 Russian beers

I want a beer.

Just some cans

First from March, 2021

We have both just had our birthdays, quite a change this year, as we are usually away for them. We had just got back from our birthdays away last year and went into Lock Down. We have used the van for a few days in September but that is it and it is off the road now having failed its MOT,

Anyway after moaning about about the beers I have been drinking for the last few months, a batch of German beers I got where very nice. here is the review of the first three.

And Union, Wednesday Wheat Beer from Germany

 

5.0% gold in colour with a good head, a sweet fruity aroma and it had a nice fruity wheat beer taste.

And Union, Dark Lager from Germany

 

5.0% ruby red in colour with a thin head, not much aroma but a nice fruity taste. 

And Union, Friday IPA from Germany

 

6.5% slightly hazy amber in colour with a good head, it had a malt and hop aroma, the taste was a good old IPA taste, very nice.

The rest from February, 2021

Even beers from Belgium have not been very good lately. Maybe its just because I have not been out of the house for more than a quick walk in months. Maybe things will get better when we do get out and go to the pub. Maybe some of these modern breweries will fold when we do get back out.

St Feuillien, Saison from Belgium

 

6.5% gold in colour with a good head, it had a sweet aroma, with a mild but strange taste. 

St Feuillien, Grisette Blanche Bio from Belgium

 

5.5% hazy gold in colour with a very thin head, a sweet aroma and a bitter wheat taste. 

By The Horns, Hopadelic from England

4.3% hazy gold with a nice head, a sour fruit aroma, a bitter fizzy hop taste. 

First three in February, 2021

Still not drinking many new beers and to tell the truth, the vast majority of the beers I have bought online during the lockdown have not been very nice at all. If you have been reading this over the years you will have noticed this. Anyway here we go with February.

Flavourly / By The Horns, Drifter from England

4.5% deep gold in colour with a thin head, it had a hop aroma and the taste was not bad but hoppy.

Arcade Beerworks, 2 (Pale Ale) from Scotland

3.8% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, it had a bland aroma and a hoppy taste.

Hilden, Dunlop & Hume from Northern Ireland

4.0% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, not much aroma but a mild hoppy taste. 

Only Four From January 2021

 Only had four new beers in January, as usual I did have plenty more beers but without shopping (I have not been in a shop since August last year and that was for beer), not many new ones.

Flavourly / By The Horns, Heatwave from England

4.0% deep gold in colour with a thin head, it had a bit of a citrus aroma but the taste was a good bitter. 

Luss Brewing, Mosaic from Scotland

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

Arcade Beerworks, 3 (Citrus Pale Ale) from Scotland

4.0% hazy gold in colour with a poor head, grapefruit hop aroma, the taste is like hoppy lemonade, not good.

Black Isle, Goldfinch from Scotland

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, it had a sweet aroma and a bitter taste.