Christmas Beers Four 2021

Finely here are the last three Christmas beers, although these are named for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Ale.

Staffordshire, Cheddleton Christmas Ale from England

 

4.6% deep brown in colour with a good head, a toasted malt aroma and a good malty taste.

Staffordshire, Cheddleton Boxing Day Ale from England

 

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

Staffordshire, Cheddleton New Years Ale from England

 

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, a malt and hop aroma, it had a smoky strange taste.  

Happy New Year

Christmas Beers Three 2021

I have finished the Christmas cans, so now I will move on to the Christmas bottles. 

Cottage Delight, Stocking Filler from England

 

4.5% gold in colour with a nice head, a floral aroma and a fizzy hop taste 

Cottage Delight, Nut Roast from England

 

4.8% deep brown in colour with a nice head, a nutty malt aroma and a good malty taste.

Darwin Brewery / One More Than Two, The Darkest of Dark Night from England

 

5.0% black in colour with a good head, a good stout aroma and a bitter stout taste.

Christmas Beers Two 2021

Here are the rest of the cans from last Christmas, I will move on to the bottles in the next blog. 

Brew York, Fairytale of Brew York 2021 Gingerbread Milk Stout from England

4.9% black in colour with a good brown head, a nice sweet Christmas aroma and a nice fruity Christmas fruit taste.

Anspach & Hobday, The Pfeffernüsse Stout from England

6.0% black in colour with a good brown head, a sweet malt aroma, the taste is bitter sweet smoky malt. 

Horsforth, Berry Christmas from England

6.1% hazy yellow in colour with no head, smelt a bit fruity and had a fruity taste.

Christmas Beers One 2021

Even though we did not go out much at all over the Christmas period, I did manage to try a few festive beers.  As with the last posts, I will split this up so as there are not too many at a time. 

 Amundsen, Super Santa Choco Shaka Stout from Norway

Sadly not had this one yet, it arrived in the post with a hole in the can but I do like the can.

People's Captain, 'Tis The Saison from England

5.0% gold in colour with no head, flowery aroma, the taste is dry with tangy notes.  

Cold Town Beer, Christmas Pudding from Scotland

5.9% amber in colour with a nice head, a sweet fruity aroma, the teste is nothing like Christmas Pudding but it was quite nice.

Rooster's, I'm Dreaming of a Wheat Christmas from England

5.2% cloudy gold in colour with a thin head, sweet flowery aroma and more of a French wheat beer taste. 

Innis & Gunn Beers

Well as I said in the last post, Innis & Gunn has not been covered on here before, so here we go. I will cover the four main beers brewed by Innis & Gunn and may continue onto some of the Limited editions they do. Innis & Gunn is a fairly new brewer and only started in 2003, it is also Scottish and I love their beers.

Innis & Gunn, Original from Scotland

6.6%, oak aged beer, light amber in colour with a thin head, slight hop aroma, fairly sweet malt and caramel even butter flavour, very nice indeed. This is the old label but I thought it would do.

Innis & Gunn, Blood Red Sky from Scotland

 

6.8% deep amber to red in colour with a thin head, there is a sweet hint of rum in the aroma and the taste is slightly sweet but nice rum flavor. I bought this one in a supermarket in France.

Innis & Gun, Gunnpowder IPA from Scotland

 

5.6% gold in colour with a thin head, it had a citrus hop aroma and a similar taste. Also bought and drank this one in France.

Innis & Gunn, Lager Beer from Scotland

4.6% gold colour with a thin head, slightly sweet aroma and a descent lager taste.

Now what others have I had.

Innis & Gunn, Bourbon Barrel Porter from Scotland

 

7.4% dark brown in colour with a thin head, caramel and roast malt aroma, some whiskey and malt in the taste.

Innis & Gunn, Scottish Pale Ale from Scotland

 

7.0% gold in colour with a good head, a fruity aroma and a mild vanilla taste.

Innis & Gunn, American Oak Pale Ale from Scotland

 

4.4% gold colour with a thin head, some oak in the aroma, not much different in the taste.

There are a couple of fruit beers from them that I covered in another blog, Some Fruit Beers

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.

Boat Lane Beers, all six I have had

I had four of these on Friday night, although it was in August last year that I bought all six of them in Bretforton. So where is Bretforton you may ask, well it's where my younger brother Andrew is buried. It was a long time ago now that he died but it is only the third time we have been down to see his grave.

We parked near the Church of St Leonard, where his funeral was, then walked over to the grave and as usual cried. We then had a walk around the village and ended up at the Bretforton Community Shop where I bought the beers.

I had two of the beers a week later in Tenby, Wales but the others I only had last night, so let's get on with the review.

Boat Lane, Waka from England

 

6.1% hazy amber in colour with a thin head, a sweet hop aroma and a complex taste with some liquorice.

Boat Lane, Gondola from England

 

5.1% cloudy gold in colour with a good head, sweet hop aroma and a bitter hop taste.

Boat Lane, Captains Table Beer from England

 

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a very thin head, sweet hop aroma, a very mild fruity hop taste.

Boat Lane, Bay Hopper from England

 

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a good head, verty hoppy aroma, a zesty hop taste.

Boat Lane, Liberty Boat from England

 

5.5% hazy gold in colour with a very thin head, fruity hop aroma, bitter hop taste.

Boat Lane, Oil Tanker from England

 

5.3% black in colour with a good head, sweet coffee aroma, a coffee and ice cream stout taste.