Beers to survive the lockdown

As I wrote yesterday, I am not getting out but I still need my beer, so I have been ordering them from online shops or the breweries themselves. Below is a photo of the beers that I bought and I only bought ones that I really like. After all these are for drinking not just for trying, I already have enough of those.

So I will go through my old writeups of the above beers.

Franziskaner, Hefe-Weissbier from Germany

5.0% cloudy cold in colour with a good but fading head, banana aroma, slightly dry yeasty banana taste, so smells like and tastes like a good German Hefe Weissbier, if it didn't I would let you know, this is another good one. Brewed in Munich.

Camerons, Strongarm from England

4.0% ruby red colour with a very good head, fruity malt aroma, nice fruity caramel bitter taste.  Brewed in Hartlepool, it's my home town beer and people of the town either love it or hate it, I love it.

Leffe, Blond from Belgium

6.6% deep gold colour with a thin head, sweet malt and bubblegum aroma, sweet strong bubbly malt taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste, I love it.

Hoegaarden, Witbier from Belgium

5.0% pale yellow in colour with a good head, slight citrus aroma, nice citrusy yeast though quite a thin tasting Witbier but very enjoyable, I like it a lot and it is usually reasonably priced.  One of the best, even in cans.

And the Innis and Gunn, another fantastic beer that I find I have not covered on here before and that is very strange. So I will finish here but the very next thing I write will be on Innis and Gunn beers.

More beer before Saturday

Well after Wednesdays beers, I was going to give it a miss until Friday or Saturday but I didn't, in fact I drank Thursday and Friday nights. So before I cover Saturdays beers, I will get on with the beers I had between. On both of these nights I just drank beers from my beer fridge and it is still full. Trev and Pat are still away, so that is why we were in on Friday night.

Thursday Night

Basqueland, Aupa All United Pale Ale from Spain

5.2% gold in colour with a thin head, a bitter fruit aroma and a bitter fruit taste, this has not made me look forward to our trip to Spain this year.

Siren, Soundwave IPA from England

5.6% gold in colour with a thin head, a fruit aroma and a sweet fruit taste.

Friday Night

Wiper and True, Blossom Amber Ale from England

 

4.6% hazy amber in colour with a thin head, a nice fruity aroma and the taste is a good amber.

Toast, Bloomin' Lovely from England

 

4.5% deep gold in colour with a poor head, a nice doughy aroma and a slightly bitter taste.

Wylam, Catcher In The Rye from England

 

5.8% gold in colour with a thin head, not much aroma but the taste was quite nice

Another Local Small Pub

Just back from nearly a fortnight down south in Devon, with stop offs in Tewkesbury and Stratford-upon-Avon but that must have covered at least a dozen new beers. So that will follow when I get them sorted, for now I will continue with my visits to the new micro bubs in Billingham.

It was late on Sunday afternoon and we had had nothing to eat since breakfast (we had been visiting family) but we still made for one of the new pubs the The Porky Pint. When we got in there they were serving food, small snacks (or not so small), Hot Pork, Turkey and Beef buns, also pigs in blankets and roast potatoes. We had slow cooked beef with roast potatoes and gravy and we got plenty, excellent. Now for the beers.

Purple Moose, Dark Side Of The Moose / Ochr Dywyll Y Mws from Wales

4.6% dark brown with a thin head, roast malt aroma, slightly bitter roast malt taste, had this one before.

Timothy Taylor's, Ram Tam from England

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

Roundhill Brewery, BPA (Billingham Pale Ale) from England

5.2% gold in colour with a nice head, hoppy aroma and taste, not the best of theirs.

Third week in 2017

Here are the beers I had over the third week in 2017 not all new but one that I haven't had since 2008 and its in a new bottle. The other two have names that have been used before, although they are new beers. So I will do something new and show the other, original beers as well

Marston's, Old Empire IPA from England

 

5.7%, pale amber colour with a nice head, fruit aroma, taste is fruity, hoppy and bitter, not too bad. The old photos from 2008 are here.

 

Shepherd Neame, Spitfire Gold from England

 

4.3% deep gold in colour with a poor head, hop aroma but the taste was ok as the hops were not that bad. The original one is below.

Shepherd Neame, Spitfire from England

 

4.5% amber colour with a nice head, hops and malt aroma, malt, hop and fruity flavour, a very smooth refreshing drink, another one I like.

Brains, The Rev James Rye from Wales

 

4.3% amber in colour with a nice head, hop aroma, malty taste with some hops but not too bad. The original one is below.

Brains, The Rev James from Wales

 

4.5% deep amber colour with a good head, sweet malty aroma, malty taste with some fruitiness, I though it was an average cask beer but this bottle was good.

Christmas Beers from Japan +

First I have to say thanks to Joshua for the lovely Christmas present, thanks again Josh.

I have had a few beers from Japan, in fact Josh also brought me some back last year, so I will include them as well. I will start with the new ones though.

K’s Brewing, The Brewmaster Fukuoka Blonde Dry

5.0% gold colour wit ha nice head, sweet fruit and yeast aroma, bitter sweet Belgian blonde taste, best Japanese beer I have had to date.

From their web site,  The Brewmaster started as a handcraft microbrewery in Fukuoka, Kyushu Island in 2002.  Only a small brewery like us can create handcrafted, tasty and joyful beer-ale.

K’s Brewing, The Brewmaster Healing Time

5.0% black with a quickly dissipating head, bitter fruit aroma, fizzy bitter tart taste with a coffee after-taste.

K’s Brewing, The Brewmaster Amaou Noble Sweet

4.0% hazy pink colour with a nice head, bitter strawberry aroma, some strawberry in the sweet but tart taste. I let Dot drink this one.

Kirin, Classic Kirin Beer

4.5% gold colour with a very thin head, slightly sweet malt aroma, slightly sweet lager taste.

I may as well carry on with the rest of the Japanese beers I have tried.

Kirin, Ichiban

5.0% pale yellow colour with no head, sweet malt aroma, slightly sweet with a slight caramel taste. Although I have had the Japanese version, this one was brewed in England by Wells & Youngs.

Sapporo, Imported Premium Beer, aka, Draft Beer / Premium Beer

5.0% pale yellow colour with no head, sweet malt aroma, slightly sweet with a slight orange taste.  As with the last one, this was not brewed in Japan but in Canada although again I have had the original.

Asahi, Super Dry

5.0%, pale yellow no head, not much aroma (what smell it did have reminded me of pub toilets), tastes like slightly sweet over carbonated mineral water but dry. I have read reports that state it is refreshing, well so is water and that costs less.

Asahi, Black (Kuronama)

5.0% dark brown colour with a thin head, roast malt aroma, roasted smoky malt taste, it was a lot better than their Super Dry.