Slow start to May

Well we are still here, the new beers are running low but I have ordered some more from the net. I did have one order not turn up, they had run out of beers but never thought to let people know. I did get my money back from them though but only after I complained that it hasn't turned up.

So I have slowed down the drinking of new beers, I think it could be a good thing though, as I am mainly drinking good beers now.

As for this lockdown, I actually went out in the car last week, we drove to ASDA, picked up a Click and Collect and drove home. I do not know how to put up with the excitement. Anyway the beers for early May are,

Naparbier, ZZ Amber Ale from Spain

 

5.5% cloudy light amber in colour with a thin head, a very hoppy aroma and taste, half went down the drain.

Buxton, Buxton SPA from England

 

4.1% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, a citrus hop aroma and taste.

Saison, Saison Dupont from Belgium

 

6.5% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, sweet aroma, the taste was sweet hops.

Vibrant Forest, Kaleidoscope from England



6.5% hazy amber in colour with a poor head, a fruity aroma and a bitter fruity hop taste, there was however a lot of yeast in the bottle and glass.

The last of the Beers from April

I am getting close to being up to date with these beer reviews, I think I still have about twenty new beers to try but as we can not get out, that will be it.

These beers were all from Europe and all were quite good.

Duvel, Tripel Hop Citra from Belgium

 

9.5% gold in colour with a good head, a citrus aroma and a nice bitter fruit taste, the hops was just right.

Brasserie du Pays Flamand, Anosteké Blonde from France

 

8.0% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, some hops in the aroma and a bitter taste.

Hopfmeister, Brazilian Road Trip from Germany

 

5.6% black in colour with a nice brown head, a nice dark chocolate aroma, the taste was of a good stout.

De Koninck, Triple d'Anvers from Belgium

 

8.0% gold in colour with a nice head, slightly sweet aroma and a bitter sweet taste.

The next four from April

My fridge full of strange beers, is starting to get a bit low and is not very full anymore. Not to worry though, I do still have twelve boxes of the stuff in the van. The ones in the van though are beers that I like, beers that I ordered in, as I have not been out at all. Plus there is one box of very strong beers that I occasionally have one from but only very occasionally.

The next four (one of them a very strong one) were surprisingly mostly good, one though was a bit dodgy.

Welde, Hop Stuff Ella-Equinox from Germany

 

5.6% deep gold in colour with a thin head, a sweet aroma and a nice fruity taste.

Trappistenbrouwerij De Kievit, Zundert Trappist 10 from Holland

 

10.0% amber in colour with a thin head, some fruit in the aroma and a nice fruity but strong taste.

Lost And Grounded, Keller Pils from England

 

4.8% gold in colour wit ha very poor head, nice lager aroma and a decent slightly hoppy taste.

Rogue Farms, 4 Hop IPA from USA

 

4.4% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, it had a hopy aroma and taste.

Gayant, La Goudale Gift Pack

These are the photos from the gift box of Gayant beer I bought not too long ago, I have had some of them before but here are the new photos. The first time I tried one of these beers the plane La Goudale, I did not like it and wrote,

"Drank it out of the bottle whilst barbecuing, so do not know about the colour or head, drank all six, so do not know anything else about it either, I do remember saying that I would not buy it again but I have and I like it.".

Anyway here is what I wrote about it and the others, in April just gone. Some of the photos are older though.

Gayant, La Goudale from France

 

7.2%, gold colour with a thin head,sweet malty and hoppy aroma, slightly fruity taste, you can taste the alcohol but it is nice. It does come in larger 75cl bottles as well.

Gayant, La Goudale Ambree from France

 

7.2% amber in colour with a thin head, some caramel in the aroma and not a bad taste at all.

Gayant, La Goudale IPA from France

 

7.2% pale amber in colour with a thin head, nice citrus hop aroma and slightly bitter but smooth taste.

Gayant, G de Goudale Grand Cru from France

 

7.8% deep gold in colour with a thin head, fruity hop aroma and a dry fruity taste.

There was another that I had back in 2015, I know there are many more Gayant beers but that's for another time.

Gayant, la Goudale Witt-Blanche from France

 

4.9% pale cloudy yellow colour colour with a thin head, bit of citrus in the aroma, slightly sweet citrus taste.

Back to the beers

Well the holiday in Spain that we didn't happen to go on is now over, so I will continue with the beer reviews. Since I made the decision to get back to talking about what is happening in my life, nothing is actually happening in my life.

I have grown some plants but then again some of the seeds I ordered did not arrive, nor did some of the beers I ordered. These were new beers from Groupon, not well known beers, that I did also order more of. Anyway back to the stock of beers stored in my fridge.

Magic Rock, Cannonball India Pale Ale from England

7.4% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, as usual it had a hop aroma and taste.

Yeastie Boys, White Noise from New Zealand

 

4.4% hazy gold in colour with thin head, a sweet aroma and tasted like French wheat beer, not bad.

Runaway, Pale Ale from England

 

4.7% hazy deep gold in colour with a thin head, nice slightly fruity aroma, not a bad hop and toffee taste, surprised by this one.

The Five Points Brewing Co. Old Greg's Barley Wine from England

 

9.3% (seen lots of different strengths for this beer) cloudy brown in colour with no head at all, a sweet aroma and sweet smooth alcohol with toffee taste.

Cross Borders, Braw Tropical Pale Ale from Scotland

5.2% pale hazy gold in colour with a thin head, hop and fruit aroma and a dry hoppy taste.

Not in Spain at the moment

Well we are not in Spain as we should be at the moment, will have to see what happens with that. We are still in the house hardly getting out at all, although I have been having a new beer about every day. So I have had plenty of new beers since the last post and one of them was a delivery of beers made using surplus fresh bread.

Toast, is the beer in question, brewed with surplus fresh bread, not too sure how much though. I have read reviews on these beers on beer groups and lots of them claim that they can taste the bread, what a load of rubbish. Anyway here are my photos of them and my small reviews.

Toast, Craft Lager from England

 

5.0% gold in colour with a poor head, it had a lager aroma and a sweet lager taste.

Toast, Pale Ale from England

 

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, a malt aroma and a sweet tangy hops taste.

Toast, American Pale Ale from England

 

4.8% gold in colour with a poor head, usual IPA aroma with hops and a nice mild but bitter taste.

Toast, Session IPA from England

 

4.5% gold in colour with a poor head, it was very similar to the last one, hop aroma and taste.