The Bar Towel

Drank some decent beer over the weekend, but I was most impressed with the Uerige Doppelsticke and the Ayinger Weizenbock, both of which are now my favourites in their categories.

Some good stuff tonight... Golden Pride on cask, St. Berrnardus Grottenbier, Great Divide Titan, Beau's Treading Water and Dugan's Tripel.

The Duggan's seems to be evolving... much fruitier, almost like a weizenbock.

Brewdog & Stone's Bashah
DDC Peche Mortel
Great Lakes Nosferatu

Tis' a good night. Feeling good, feeling great, how about you?

ritzkiss wrote:Brewdog & Stone's Bashah
DDC Peche Mortel
Great Lakes Nosferatu

Tis' a good night. Feeling good, feeling great, how about you?

Glad to know the missus can trust you babysitting!

Bobsy wrote:

ritzkiss wrote:Brewdog & Stone's Bashah
DDC Peche Mortel
Great Lakes Nosferatu

Tis' a good night. Feeling good, feeling great, how about you?

Glad to know the missus can trust you babysitting!

Missus was already back home and that was my reward for surviving the day!

Neustadt Marzen on cask at the Victory. Wow. This is a tasty brew. Loads of malt backing, toffee tones and vanilla backings, and a spicy hop presence. That common sweetness that Neustadt seems to have in common amongst most of their beers. It's not a terrible thing. For what seems to be 5.6%ABV it does have a bit of warming sensations and fruity esters. Nice, rich, velvet and cream body. Very drinkable. Lots of sweet, but the Smokey tones that linger on the tongue are very nice. Drink it if you can find it, it's worth a try.

Then home to try the Amsterdam Dry Dock Porter. This is a very nice porter. Personally I'd enjoy a little more body, but it isn't off of style guidelines, and it's still a little cold. Very dark chocolate brown, nearing black. a rich head that is a burnt cream colour. Full of roasted malt, chocolate milk, malt balls, smokey flavour and a little hickory that carries from the nose.
Good work on this one.
I can be pretty critical of my porters, but this one is very pleasant.

A three year old Aventinus Eisbock, courtesy of Derek. Its still one hell of a boozy bastard, but the age makes it drinkable, and almost like a Belgian Strong Dark. Good shit.

A 1ltr swing top of Yellow Belly Pale Ale. Good stuff. I don't think it will kep any longer,. but I have 2 more bottles to get through and nobody seems to want to drink them.

Some random bottles I need to get rid of.

Trafalgar Left Coast
DDC Rose Hibiscus
Ten FIDY

Mill Street Barley Wine 2009. I like. Alcohol is pretty well hidden for a relatively new 11% beer. Fruity citrus, caramel, spicy hops. Tasty.

bartle wrote:Then home to try the Amsterdam Dry Dock Porter.

So is that the official name? I saw it referred to as London Porter elsewhere on the forum, and the ones I picked up at the brewery had nothing on the bottles except for the generic Amsterdam label, and "PORTER" scrawled on the six-pack carrier in marker.

Agreed that it's a nice little porter, though. A bit thin, but perhaps a bit subdued in flavour, but all of the elements are there. Another good job by Jamie and the crew.

Last night at the Grand River brewery IPA/Pale Ale tasting........

MacLeans Pale Ale (personally delivered by Mr. MacLean himself who gave a short talk on English ales)
GR Curmudgen IPA (which I found much hoppier than last year)
Brew Dog Punk IPA
Lake Placid IPA
Middle Ages ImPaled Ale

Another fun night, thanks Bob and Rob and all the staff at Grand River, along with Len and Judy from the Golden Kiwi who brought along some wonderful appetizers.

GregClow wrote:

bartle wrote:Then home to try the Amsterdam Dry Dock Porter.

So is that the official name? I saw it referred to as London Porter elsewhere on the forum, and the ones I picked up at the brewery had nothing on the bottles except for the generic Amsterdam label, and "PORTER" scrawled on the six-pack carrier in marker.

Agreed that it's a nice little porter, though. A bit thin, but perhaps a bit subdued in flavour, but all of the elements are there. Another good job by Jamie and the crew.

Maybe it was "Dry Dock London Porter". At least that is what I thought I had noticed on their chalk board.
Thin maybe, but no less drinkable.

Ølfabrikken Porter - chocolate and wine + good roast & acidity, full and silky feel.

I'm drinking this foreign liquid that was left in the glass of my guests from about a week ago. I think it has started to re-ferment.