Early June 2020

Still not going out at all, I see that the Caravan and Motorhome Club sites are reopening soon but I will not be going just yet. 

I am still not getting through many new beers but I do have a few to mention here. With deliveries from supermarkets I have been getting top up beers, mainly Speckled Hen and Hobgoblin, very nice.

Petrus, Aged Red from Belgium.

8.5% made a mistake with this one, I just thought it was an aged beer but it was even worse it was also a fruit beer, although Dot liked it and drank it for me.

Uiltje, Sunshine? Yes Please from Holland

3.6% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, hoppy aroma and taste.

Beavertown, Neck Oil Session IPA from England

4.3% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, very low in aroma, with a strange taste but not very strong. 

Hatherwood, Hop Hunter Session IPA from England

4.4% gold in colour with a thin head, a sweet hop aroma and a slightly watery mild hop taste.

Slow with new beers in May

Well with all that is going on with the Virus and not going out anywhere, I have been mainly drinking beers that I can get by ordering in online. Also if I am stuck in, I may as well have beers I like and not just be trying beers just for fun, I can get back to that later.

We did get out one day last week, we did the six people in a garden thing and met up with family for a takeaway. We stayed away from each other and used different toilets but we had a good time. It was Nicole and Tim's twentieth anniversary at the weekend but we could not meet up then, we had to wait a couple of days for the rules to change. 

Although it looks like the vast majority of the other dozy British public just ignored all of this. As I write this, the amount of Covid-19 cases are still dropping but I will be surprised if it continues to drop.

I have managed a few new beers though, I do still have plenty in the fridge but I am taking it easy with them. So here are the last few from last month, May.

Atlas Brewing, Wayfarer from England

4.4% gold in colour with a nice head, hop and malt aroma and the taste was quite good.

Atlas Brewing, Nimbus from England

5.0% deep gold in colour with a nice head, a nice hop and malt aroma, with a mild hop taste. 

Loch Lomond, Strange Days from Scotland

 

4.5% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, a nice hop aroma, the taste was mild but nice.

By The Horns, Levitate from England

 

5.0% slightly hazy pale amber in colour, a hop aroma, a nice dry bitter malt taste. 

Lock Lomond, Come On Pilgrim from Scotland

 

Beer with a Zoom day

On Wednesday afternoon we had a Zoom meet, it was supposed to be for a BBQ but was mainly to meet up and have a drink with friends. This went on from 14:30 to around 20:30 with plenty of drinks and three of them where new beers to me.

Bad Co, The Shy Retirer from England

 

2.8% slightly hazy gold in colour with a thin head, not much aroma and a hoppy taste, very weak and very easy to drink.

Moor, Revival from England

3.8% very cloudy yellow in colour with a poor head, hop aroma and very hoppy taste. Not good at all.

Atlas Brewing, Latitude from England

 

3.9% gold in colour with a good head, hop aroma and taste but not too bad.

And there was another new beer from the day before.

Signature Brew, Roadie from England

4.3% slightly cloudy yellow in colour with a thin head, hoppy aroma, some malt and lots of hops in the taste.

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.