If you love good beer. . .

[Auzgurl]

that is a common practice , the booze in the Coke bottle trick. Last Big Day Out was littered with casualities due to many cases of dehydration and added to that the pills being popped [ "E"s etc combined with the heat ]and just too much alcohol drunk in that heat. If they would just schedule for a cooler time of the year, say August /September, many problems could be avoided.

But where would be the fun in that?

[Jovial Monk]

Anybody that would pop an E on a hot day after drinking alcohol, well, has a deathwish.

[Lefteee]

As long as it isn't Elton John's sperm.

[JWFrogen]

As long as it isn't Elton John's sperm.

Finally we agree on something!

I had a Coopers Stout long neck driving home from work today (a bottle of wine driving in) and Jovial you had me thinking, if this is the bad stuff, my how good the old stuff must have been.

*EPILOUGE: I cut off an old woman who gave me a disaproving look when she saw me drinking a driving thus giving her the first sexual thrill she has had in the last ten years.*

[Jovial Monk]

If you are going to drink while driving--something I do NOT approve of--I hope you transferred the beer to a plastic bottle? A glass beer bottle sticking out the back of your neck would be such a turn-off.

[Jovial Monk]

OK, Rogue Northwestern Ale, 6.2% 14.5 Plato, 80IBU—I do like a bitter to be bitter! 75% Apparent attenuation, 36°Lovibond (=some color, beer is a nice light brown in color)

Label mentions Pale, Munich, Carastan & chocolate malt, Horizon, Amarillo, Cascade & Willamette (fuggles) hops.

Pours with a lovely, fine-bubble light tan head which persists and even a minute later still has some froth covering 90% of the surface of the beer—a bucket of suds should have suds! A beer that can't hold some sort of head is a beer-substitute made mostly from sugar {shudder} like VB {double shudder!}



I hadn’t read the list of hops when I sniffed but boy they were there! Huge citrusy nose completely mingled with a toffeeish malt aroma, delightful, beautiful nose!

In taste, bitter of course tho by now under 80IBU. Mouthfeel not as creamy as the Lord Nelson Hotel’s Old Admiral and the hops provide a sensation a bit like tannin in a young red. Funnily enough the bitterness is felt in the middle of the mouth not the back.

This is a very nice beer, all malt and well hopped but would have liked the cara malt to be omitted: alas rogue is famous (infamous?) for using crystal even in styles where it is inappropriate (tho in a bitter which this is it is appropriate, I just think it sucks )

Anyway, celebrating Annie’s Independence Day drinking an American beer!


Other beer reviews

[sprintcyclist]

drunk monk should drink our aged blended diarrhoea. if he is lucky

[J.W. Frogen]

Thou shall not profane good beer!!!!!!!!!!

Thus sayeth the liver and good spirits everywhere.

If you have to die drinking, at least die happy.

And so says all of me!

[Jovial Monk]

Yesterday I saw mention of Zywiec Porter (had only seen the Pils) and today I saw a sixer of it! so I bought it!

This is no alcopop like VB, this is beer! A Baltic Porter it says—well, maybe. (Baltic Porters were porters/stouts brewed in Estonia etc after Napoleon cowed the Russian Czar into joining the “Continental system” and banning the import of Burton stouts and porters.)

It comes in a small 330ml bottle and just as well: 9.5% alcohol from a starting gravity of 1088—well attenuated!

Pouring, a nice medium tan head with a mix of fine and coarse bubbles. quite some time, half an hour or so, later there is plenty of lace on the sides of the glass and 1-2mm of froth over the entire area of the beer, sign of an all malt or at least low-sugar beer which is good! Brilliant head retention for a 9.5% beer! (And it is a beer, i.e. a lager not an ale.) Pity their site is in Polish only or I could give a few more details of the brewing process, malts, hops etc. Poland grows some really nice hops, a fuggle and a Saaz, finer and different to the respective hops grown in Kent and Bohemia.

OK, pick the glass up and after admiring the brilliant deep red color of the porter when held against the light I took a sniff. Hmmmmmm all lovely licorice-aniseedy and burnt smells! This Porter is not colored with the dreaded caramel but with real dark malts! This adds a little bit to the bitterness and slightly dries out the finish but oh christ it is what I live for in a beer! Nice taste right on the back of the throat and that does linger. I would have liked a bit more bitterness to be honest.

The porter has good body and mouthfeel, like I said, fuck all sugar in this baby! Real, all malt beer!

This is a great beer. Get it in Dan Murphy.





About an hour after pouring the porter there is froth in the very bottom of the glass! A very good sign of quality!

[J.W. Frogen]

If I dove in that I would definately get a 10!