January's Beers continued

Continuing with the beers I had in January, these were just as bad as the last lot I had.

Timmermans, Lambicus Blanche from Belgium

 

4.5% hazy pale gold in colour with a thin head, a sour aroma and taste, not good at all.

Box Steam, Pony Truck from England

 

3.8% pale amber in colour with a thin head, slightly fruity aroma and you can taste the hopps.

Van Vollenhoven & Co, Falcon Ale from Holland

 

6.2% gold in colour with a thin head, grapefruit and hop aroma, and a bitter hop taste.

Bottles from early January

Here are three of the bottles I had back in January, I have not written much about them as that is what I thought at the time, even though they are all German.

Braukunst Keller, Bavarian from Germany

 

5.3% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, zesty aroma and taste with some hops.

Hopfmeister, Franz Josef from Germany

 

4.9% gold in colour with a thin head, citrus aroma and a hoppy taste.

Hanscraft Co, Bayerisch Nizza Wheat Pale Ale from Germany

 

5.0% cloudy gold in colour with a thin head, a bitter sweet aroma and a tangy citrus taste.

Pumps over the last couple of weeks.

It was our birthdays over the last couple of weeks and although most things went wrong over this time, we did manage to have a few new beers.

Fyne Ales, Vital Spark from Scotland

4.4% deep brown in colour with a nice head, fruit and malt aroma, the taste is a slightly watery malt.

Electric Bear, Howdy Ho from England

5.1% brown in colour with a nice head, not mutch aroma, the taste was interesting but ok.

Durham, Black Bishop from England

4.1% almost black in colour with a good head, nicee stout aroma and a slightly fizzy but nice stout taste.

Great Heck, Mercy from England

4.0% gold colour with a nice head, it was one of those hoppy beers, too hoppy for me.

Sonnet 43, The Raven Bourbon Milk Stout from England

4.3% black in colour with nice head, nice sweet aroma and a good sweet but stout taste.

Old photos of beer packs

I have been looking back at my older photos and found these photos that I took of packs of beers, they are all Belgian and all very good. I would think that they were all bought in Belgium as well.

Grimbergen, Blond from Belgium

6.7%, gold in colour with a thin head, sweet aroma and fruity malty taste, a really nice abbey beer, one of my favourites, plus two free beers in this pack.

Chimay, Chimay Red or Première from Belgium

7.0% deep red colour with a good head, fruity malt aroma, smooth fruity malt taste. It says Brune on the bottle but is known as Chimay Red

Van Honsebrouck, Kasteel Triple from Belgium

11% gold in colour with a good head, the aroma is sweet alcohol and fruitcake, taste is sweet fruits, I like this beer very much but only drink it occasionally, a bit too strong for everyday use.

Ayinger Beers

Had a couple of German beers from the same company recently.

Ayinger, Lager Hell from Germany

 

4.9% gold in colour with a thin head, a pretty normal aroma and taste for a lager but it wasn't full of hops like many new beers.

Ayinger, Altbairisch Dunkel from Germany

 

5.0% deep amber in colour with a nice head, malty aroma and the taste was a thin malt but nice.

Even More Cans

Continuing with the cans, here are some more that I had in the last few weeks.

Aldi (Redwell), Ghost Dance Chinook Pale Ale from England

5.3% gold in colour with a thin head, hop in the aroma and a dry taste.

Brewers & Union GMBH, Nue Black Lager from Germany

5.0% deep brown in colour with a poor head, a mild fruity aroma and a nice sweet taste, this one was good.

Magic Rock, High Wire Grapefruit from England

5.5% gold colour with a poor head, the aroma and taste was too much grapefruit, this one wasn't nice at all.

First Chop, HOP from England

4.1% gold in colour with a poor head and even though it is called HOP the hop was not that bad.

London Beer Factory, Beyond The Pale from England

4.2% gold in colour with a thin head, hoppy aroma and taste but not too bad.

More Cans

Had a few cans lately (I did three of them in my last post), so I will carry on doing them, in fact this may take a few posts to do the lot.

Tennent's, Special from Scotland

3.6% pale amber in colour with a thin head, not much aroma and a weak bitter taste, had this one in Scotland on a recent trip and it did for then.

Shepherd Neame (Lidl Hatherwood), Twisted Knots American IPA from England

5.5% amber in colour with a thin head, some grapefruit in the aroma and toffey and malt in the taste.


Shepherd Neame (Lidl Hatherwood), Bitter Iron IPA from England

5.4% dark gold in colour with a thin head, citrus aroma and a hop malt taste.

Brooklyn, Summer Ale from the USA

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, malty aroma and a slightly sweet hop taste.

I started with the Tennent's which was only ok but it was better than the others.