Beers, Spanish Holiday One, February 2022

My last post was back in October 2021, with beers I had got in France on our holidays. I have no idea why I stopped doing this blog, but I think it's about time I started back up again. 

The fact that we have just been to Spain for a holiday, and found some good beers there, I will restart with them. I will split up the review into two blogs and with luck I will continue with the other beers very soon.

Cruzcampo, Especial from Spain

 

5.6% gold in colour with a thin head, nice aroma nice hot weather taste. 

Cruzcampo, Gran Reserva from Spain

 

6.4% amber in colour with a nice head, malt aroma and a good malt taste. 

San Miguel, San Miguel Selecta from Spain

 

6.2% pail amber in colour with a nice head, roast malt aroma and quite a good taste

Beer from France in August 2021

It is now October, and I have not written anything on here since July.  I have been away twice since then,  I was away in France for a week in August and down in Cornwall early in September.  I have also had a lot of new beers over that time as well, it's just that I haven't been on here.

Over the last two days I had four of the beers I bought in France, so I will restart with them.

Mira, Olympic White from France

 

4.2% hazy yellow in colour with a thin head, a sweet yeast aroma, a sweet tarty taste. 

Mira, Black Owl Sun from France

 

5.2% hazy amber in colour with a poor head, a nice aroma and a good amber taste. 

Mira, Rimshot Blond from France

 

4.6% hazy gold in colour with no head, a nice yeast aroma, the taste was quite good. 

Mira, Rhéa, from France

 

4.8% hazy pale gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity aroma and very fizzy bitter sweet slightly orange taste. 

Our Girl Lucie

Specially branded to raise money for my daughters niece Lucie, who was very badly injured while helping her mother out of a smoke filled car.  

She was hit by a tractor (that did not stop) and has been in hospital since the 27th of January. 

Wensleydale, Our Girl Lucie from England

4.1% gold colour with thin head head, citrus hop and sight caramel aroma, cirrus hop (orange) taste.

Wensleydale, Our Girl Lucie, is available in the Queens Head, Kirkby Malzeard and the Bruce Arms, Masham, both in North Yorkshire.

The End Of June, 2021

I started June well and thought I would have plenty of new beers for the month. I didn't, in fact I had two new beers at the very end of June. So here they are. 

North Brewing Co, Lost Cosmonauts from England

6.0% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, fruity hop aroma, the taste was not too hoppy. 

Vocation, Life & Death from England

6.5% hazy gold in colour with a nice head, another hoppy fruity aroma and a hoppy taste.

First new ones from June 2021

The first BBQ around ours with new beers was at the beginning of the month. I still have plenty of the Isle of Skye beers to get through though but they will wait.

Salt, Jute Session IPA from England 

4.2% cloudy gold with a nice head, fruity aroma and smooth hop and fruit taste. 

Magic Rock, Murk-Life Balance from England

5.8% hazy amber in colour with a good head, a hoppy fruity aroma a hoppy fruity taste.

Hawkshead, Session Hazy from England

4.5% very hazy pail gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity hop aroma and taste.

Surprise for May 2021

Well I though I would not have any new beers at all this month, I was getting sick of all the very cloudy, very hoppy, very poor new beers that I have been getting by post over this lockdown.     

In the end though I ordered some more beers, from a Scottish brewer on the Isle of Skye and although they looked good online, I have had some pretty poor Scottish beers in the past. 

Well as I work my way through them, they are surprisingly nice up until now, I do still have a few more to go (I did buy all the different beers they do) but up until now I am very pleased indeed. 

The brewer is the, Isle of Skye Brewing Co.

Isle of Skye, Skye Gold from Scotland

 

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

Isle of Skye, Skye Red from Scotland

 

4.2% deep amber or red in colour with a thin head, nice malt aroma and a nice mild taste.

Isle of Skye, Skye Blaven from Scotland 

4.7% light amber in colour with a thin head, a light malt aroma and a malty taste.

Beers from April 2021

April was a very poor month for new beers, probably the worst month since I started doing this blog.  I have looked and there are only three new beers for the whole month. 

Brewdog, Barnard Castle Eye Test from Scotland

6.0% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and fruity hop taste. If you do not get the title of this beer, where have yo been. 

Vocation, Tr-Hop-Ical from England

5.7% hazy gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma and a fruity citrus taste.

De Halve Maan, Straffe Hendrik Brugs Tripel Bier 9° from Belgium

 

9.0% hazy gold in colour with a good head, a tangy fruity bitter aroma, the taste is sweet and strong.