What's your favorite Beer?

[emceeQ]

^Super happy with how that label (and the beer for that matter) came out!  It's another one of our brewer's recipes and man is tasty!

[Seul]

BA Flanders Red - sounds good…

[Giles]

(He's coming to Belgium later in the year, we're meeting up with him and then driving him back to UK - ask him to bring you a bottle or two….)

[Seul]

(I might meet up with him - our lawyers are looking into whether it's legal…)

[Chris]

That's a good label and a tasty sounding beer.  I'll have to try and track some down on my own, since I'm not going to Michigan or Belgium any time soon.

[Seul]

Which is a pity - I'd love to share these with you 

[Chris]

Oooh, those do look good.

And it would be fantastic to hang out with you while drinking them…

[Seul]

I was gonna send you some til I read about your disdain for non-carbonated beers… No use in sending you Lambiek beer then... 

I'll figure something out though...

[neph93]

While we're all drooling over the contents of Seul's fridge, here's some more sexy Belgian goodness:

I didn't read the label very hard and assumed this would be a type of Kriek, but it's closer to a sour red. Or at least the bastard offspring of the two. Rock candy, brown apples and malt vinegar. Dry finish but a sweet cherry aftertaste. Bloody good.

[Seul]

^Sounds good 

Ok so I'm going to Geers tomorrow… These were limited to two/ person, so figured I'd try to decide whether I needed more... In short: no. It's good, it's reàlly good in fact, but it lacks funk... It's too clean... Has enough wood, not enough horsemanure...

[neph93]

^ Ha. Got called a snob today when talking to the assistant at the monopoly. I told him the blossom gueuze was a load of berries hiding a a shite gueuze without character. He said "everybody" rates it, and I said a decent gueuze needs crazy yeast and at least a whiff of the barn, and that the blossom stuff was a sanitized circle jerk aimed at people who didn't know better. I was a bit of a dick really. But I was right.

[Seul]

You were right, and the Special Blend should've been named Special Bland. Snoozefest.

I'll gladly buy Boon Black Label which costs 2€/ bottle less… Or Girardin Black Label, which is 3€ less for a big bottle... Creating a nice looking product is what they do best @Lindemans…

[neph93]

@Seul:

Creating a nice looking product is what they do best @Lindemans…

Nail on the head there, lar'.

Meanwhile, not reading labels is obviously an issue for me at the mo' as I missed this weak ass abv when buying this a couple of weeks ago:

Turns out it's tasty, well balanced and complex despite the lack of booze. Surprising win.

[Chris]

Wow, a stout under 5%?  That's interesting.

[Broark]

Drinking another bottle of White Oak tonight and gotta say it's one of my favorite beers without a doubt.
Also picked up two bottles of Birthday Bomb, excited to try it out!

[DanielAFC]

An absolute pleasure at the end of a fantastic week

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[neph93]

@Chris:

Wow, a stout under 5%?  That's interesting.

I was fully prepared for it to be awful but it was very well made and full of flavour, despite lacking in the body that a shit load of alchohol provides.

[Seul]

Holy cow - what a haul… Pics to follow...

[Traser2g]

I need a Birthday Bomb!  Guess for now I'll settle for one of the best coffee porters I can remember.

Night Shift Awake. I can get this any time which is great

Also the wife picked me up a new beer fridge, what a great wife I have!

[Seul]

@Traser2g:

Also the wife picked me up a new beer fridge, what a great wife I have!

Nice!..

Ok - Geers!.. Whilst my mate was smoking outside, and my other mate had yet to arrive, I popped in with a headstart…

=> 3 last 37.5cls bottles of 3 Fonteinen Golden Blend, yep I'll have those...
=> 3 last bottles of BFM Saint Bon Chien Grand Cru 2013 Rum Casks, yeah I'll have those as well...
=> bottle of Tilquin Mûre to see what the fuss is all about...
=> bottle of Cantillon '14 to see whether it's better than the appalling 2013s I had...
=> some smoked beers (Schlenkerla), some Polish porter (Kormoran Porter Warminski, cheap as fuck at 2.3€/ 0.5l!)
=> Fantôme Hivêr, brilliant black saison, To Ol Black Malts BIIPA, a locally made stellar saison (d'Erpe Mere) and the Weizenbomb that is Schneider Meine-Hopfenweisse

Ready for spring and summer...