Author Topic: BEERS #2 - Beyond the Pale (Read 48698 times)

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #780 on:** July 18, 2020, 08:16:56 AM »

I love Rodenbach Grand Cru.

Hanssens Kriek is more gnarly than that then?

Cuntbeaks · « **Reply #781 on:** July 18, 2020, 02:41:04 PM »

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on July 18, 2020, 08:16:56 AM

I love Rodenbach Grand Cru.

Hanssens Kriek is more gnarly than that then?

They're poles apart. The Hanssens is the closest I've come to drinking straight vinegar. Horrendous.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #782 on:** July 18, 2020, 03:53:14 PM »

No mention of vinegar in the flavour description I just read, unlike Bourgogne de Flandres which is a famously vinegary Flanders red. Could have been a bad bottle? Either way I am intrigued.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #783 on:** July 20, 2020, 08:07:03 AM »

Some updates on my trip to Bavaria

Weltenburger Abbey - very busy but a beautiful place and the ferry along Danube Gorge to reach it is well worth the excursion. Their Asam Bock is magnificent. Served in a steinkrug too.

Weisses Brauhaus - Schneider Weisse beer hall in Kelheim. A nice venue but disappointingly only 1 of its entire range on tap. Couldn't believe it. That was a venue on my beer bucket list.

Kneitinger - A really nice big brewpub in Regensburg with very cool old Gaststatte room. Their beers are terrific from the Munich Dunkel to the Sommerbier, a kind of ambery helles.

Bierwerk - it still remains the place in Nuremberg to try Franconian beers. The lineup was a who's who in local brewing. Incredible. Had a Wiethaler Landbier. So smooth when compared with the bottled stuff.

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #784 on:** July 20, 2020, 09:03:11 AM »

Have a Vector Ventinus on me!

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #785 on:** July 20, 2020, 11:41:43 AM »

Quote from: Chedney Honks on July 20, 2020, 09:03:11 AM

Have a Vector Ventinus on me!

Prost! Btw, You would shit your hazmat pants spending longer than 5 minutes in Bavaria.

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #786 on:** July 20, 2020, 12:05:40 PM »

Proper Schinken territory! I'm not surprised.

Have a good un and I'll enjoy the reports 🍻

OF YOUR DEATH

king_tubby · « **Reply #787 on:** July 20, 2020, 12:10:37 PM »

Shit news for me and Shoulders, Beer-Ritz in Headingley is closing.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #788 on:** July 20, 2020, 12:18:03 PM »

Quote from: king_tubby on July 20, 2020, 12:10:37 PM

Shit news for me and Shoulders, Beer-Ritz in Headingley is closing.

That's terrible news. Any idea why?

king_tubby · « **Reply #789 on:** July 20, 2020, 12:45:00 PM »

No, they just tweeted that they were closing the shop. Online orders will continue.

I'd guess Covid, it's not like they were in a good location for footfall anyway and three months shut can't have helped.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #790 on:** July 20, 2020, 01:07:04 PM »

I only gave them sympathy business lately as they have been overpriced for a while. But if they go online I have no reason to use them.

king_tubby · « **Reply #791 on:** July 20, 2020, 01:47:55 PM »

I spent 30 quid there yesterday.

Have you seen the prices in Growlers? Fucking robdogs. I suppose I'm going to have to bike up to Hop Shack now for cans, seeing as Village Liquor is never open when I go by.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #792 on:** July 20, 2020, 03:00:12 PM »

Yeah haven't been there for a while as the whole operation has turned into a wind up really. Used to be able to get good stuff to take out and drink in for between £3.20-4.80 only 2-3 years ago.

phes · « **Reply #793 on:** July 20, 2020, 07:40:47 PM »

Quote from: king_tubby on July 20, 2020, 12:10:37 PM

Shit news for me and Shoulders, Beer-Ritz in Headingley is closing.

Oh that's rotten news. Used to love the long walk up there to pick up treats. Aside from covid I wonder if they've been a victim of their location and the rise in popularity of craft beers. Once upon a time it was one of the only shops, now presumably there's a handful better located and most bars doing takeout

Smeraldina Rima · « **Reply #794 on:** July 20, 2020, 07:50:16 PM »

It's alright just turning into a Beer-Blockbuster.

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #795 on:** July 20, 2020, 09:51:50 PM »

I would KILL for a nice beer - just not as much as Shoulders 😂😂😂

Pseudopath · « **Reply #796 on:** July 20, 2020, 10:05:43 PM »

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on July 20, 2020, 08:07:03 AM

Kneitinger - A really nice big brewpub in Regensburg with very cool old Gaststatte room. Their beers are terrific from the Munich Dunkel to the Sommerbier, a kind of ambery helles.

Bierwerk - it still remains the place in Nuremberg to try Franconian beers. The lineup was a who's who in local brewing. Incredible. Had a Wiethaler Landbier. So smooth when compared with the bottled stuff.

Nice. Planning some day trips to Regensburg and Nürnberg when I next visit Munich, so will check out these fine establishments.

FerriswheelBueller · « **Reply #797 on:** July 21, 2020, 01:29:23 AM »

Quote from: Pseudopath on July 20, 2020, 10:05:43 PM

Nice. Planning some day trips to Regensburg and Nürnberg when I next visit Munich, so will check out these fine establishments.

Went to the Andechs brewery via the S-Bahn on my stag. It was well good, so try and sneak that in for a day.

Pseudopath · « **Reply #798 on:** July 21, 2020, 02:40:26 AM »

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on July 21, 2020, 01:29:23 AM

Went to the Andechs brewery via the S-Bahn on my stag. It was well good, so try and sneak that in for a day.

That sounds like a plan. Did the Paulaner brewery tour last time I visited Munich, but I think the guide had just broken up with her boyfriend and kept bursting into tears throughout the tour. Was also unfortunate enough to visit on the day they were bottling Spezi (although I certainly can't complain about the amount of Weißbier they chucked down my neck afterwards).

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #799 on:** July 21, 2020, 08:53:37 AM »

Bamberg REPORT

Schlenkerla - open and as good as ever. After a 1st in the biergarten we were able to move into the Schanke, the main pub room where the stuff is dispensed direct from the barrel. Quiet inside as people were out in the sunshine.

Fassla - Bit of a drab interior but nice range of range of beers

Spezial - only accepting visitors for dining.

Heading to Landbierparadies on Wodanstrasse in Nuremberg later today.

FerriswheelBueller · « **Reply #800 on:** July 21, 2020, 03:21:07 PM »

Quote from: Pseudopath on July 21, 2020, 02:40:26 AM

That sounds like a plan. Did the Paulaner brewery tour last time I visited Munich, but I think the guide had just broken up with her boyfriend and kept bursting into tears throughout the tour. Was also unfortunate enough to visit on the day they were bottling Spezi (although I certainly can't complain about the amount of Weißbier they chucked down my neck afterwards).

That’s really funny and bleak. Perfect combo.

Had a blazing row with an ex girlfriend in the beautiful town of Tergensee. Another place worth visiting if you’re in and around Munich.

Smeraldina Rima · « **Reply #801 on:** July 21, 2020, 03:33:35 PM »

My wife's gone to a beautiful town near Munich.

Tergensee?

No, it's a beer tasting trip.

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #802 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:09:46 PM »

My partner had Spezi earlier. Loved it.

Guess you could say she likes it Spezi

Shoulders?-Stomach! · « **Reply #803 on:** July 21, 2020, 06:41:06 PM »

Just been to Forchheim. 3 days before Annafest starts. Glorious sunshine, no crowds

Neder is still brilliant. Barrel kellerbier for 2.60 and a really cool old pub with serving hatch.

Frankisch Bierstube has the amazing Mauerscheisser which was as good as I remember.

Now in Furth at Keimling drinking their haus dunkel, a really rich lovely beer.

One of the best 3 beers in a row for quite a while.

king_tubby · « **Reply #804 on:** July 21, 2020, 08:59:43 PM »

Handy list of breweries to yeet, if confirmed.

https://twitter.com/gaedd/status/1285611601547137024

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #805 on:** July 21, 2020, 10:31:30 PM »

Too bad I won't be drinking their watered down rust wash ever again

Pseudopath · « **Reply #806 on:** July 22, 2020, 08:49:16 AM »

Just ripped up my Hook Norton Brewery tour voucher in protest. Granted, it did expire in September 2013 but I think it still sends a strong message.

Chedney Honks · « **Reply #807 on:** July 22, 2020, 09:25:47 AM »

I will teach these people the true meaning of DOOM BAR

Jerzy Bondov · « **Reply #808 on:** July 22, 2020, 10:21:52 AM »

Doom Bar isn't on there, that's Sharps. Good old lovely local Sharps (owned by Molson Coors). I do like a Wolf Rock mind you.

king_tubby · « **Reply #809 on:** July 22, 2020, 10:25:04 AM »

Remember when Doom Bar was good?

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Author Topic: BEERS #2 - Beyond the Pale (Read 48698 times)