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@Bovidae I thought Murica and Freedom Juice were also Trump themed beers. Dump the Trump & Im-Peach-ment are no longer produced (according to my local)
I enjoyed the former too often but I usually find Sours disappointing. Great at first but quickly wane.
I do like Behemoth
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@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
@Bovidae I thought Murica and Freedom Juice were also Trump themed beers. Dump the Trump & Im-Peach-ment are no longer produced (according to my local)
I enjoyed the former too often but I usually find Sours disappointing. Great at first but quickly wane.
I do like Behemoth
Simply a brand name now. They contract out everything hence the reason they have endless different brews. They just tweak a recipe and draw up a label for it.
The beer is OK but that's because it is made by a fairly good brewery (Epic I think) -
@Crucial Their website says they still brew themselves from their pub in Mt Eden??
After a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2019, Behemoth moved into their "forever home". With the help of 635 Chur-holders, a brewpub (Churly's) & production brewery now sit on the corner of Dominion Road and Charles Street. With 24 taps there's plenty of space for trying our most recent brew! -
@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
@Crucial Their website says they still brew themselves from their pub in Mt Eden??
After a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2019, Behemoth moved into their "forever home". With the help of 635 Chur-holders, a brewpub (Churly's) & production brewery now sit on the corner of Dominion Road and Charles Street. With 24 taps there's plenty of space for trying our most recent brew!Interesting. I'm not sure if that brewery is doing the tap fresh stuff only or their whole supply. I was told only recently by someone in their production chain that the cans come from elsewhere.
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@Crucial @dogmeat Steam Brewing in Otahuhu (https://www.steambrewing.co.nz/) make really good beer on contract for lots of folk. I think they were associated with Luke Nicholas for a long time (epic), and do plenty of recongisable and good quality brews.
I suspect they do teh bigger batches with canning, while Churlys brew onsite for dispensing there.
Regardless, the beer from behemoth is generally pretty good - I'm going to go and visit Churly's sometime
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@Bovidae said in Beer thread:
Has anyone tried these? These beers might now be collectors items and hard to find (or out of stock).
Yep, decent drops.
I'm on a Craft beer FB page and whilst I do agree that Trump is a colossal dickhead I don't need reminding of it every five minutes by people posting updates of them drinking it.
My mate has a bunch of them, Behemoth do some brilliant drops.
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@Crucial said in Beer thread:
@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
@Crucial Their website says they still brew themselves from their pub in Mt Eden??
After a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2019, Behemoth moved into their "forever home". With the help of 635 Chur-holders, a brewpub (Churly's) & production brewery now sit on the corner of Dominion Road and Charles Street. With 24 taps there's plenty of space for trying our most recent brew!Interesting. I'm not sure if that brewery is doing the tap fresh stuff only or their whole supply. I was told only recently by someone in their production chain that the cans come from elsewhere.
I possibly have it all wrong. Depends on size of the brewery I guess.I suspect there are very few "craft breweries" doing all of their own production nowadays... there's a shitload of contract breweries around the place. And yeah - if it's in a can... that's the shit easily outsourced.
I noted with some amusement at a little restaurant in Opunake, they listed some beer on their blackboard as being from Napier - when it was in fact a brand well-known as being Auckland or Northland or something... and when I checked the can, sure enough - the address listed on the can was that of a certain contract-brewer in Ahuriri, Napier. -
Johnnie Walker Double Black.
Really nice - has a fair bit of character. Normal go for Single Malts (had a Green Label blended recently which I kinda liked) but this is very drinkable.
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@Victor-Meldrew I keep promising myself to try and get into blends. Would the Double Black be a good starting point?
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@Catogrande said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew I keep promising myself to try and get into blends. Would the Double Black be a good starting point?
Yeah, it's smoky and peaty, very smooth and has a fair bit of character. Someone once told me blended whisky get a bad reputation as most cheap whisky is blended, but to try a decent blend. Think I prefer this to JW Green Label which is blend of 15 yr-old malts. More memorable.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Catogrande said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew I keep promising myself to try and get into blends. Would the Double Black be a good starting point?
Yeah, it's smoky and peaty, very smooth and has a fair bit of character. Someone once told me blended whisky get a bad reputation as most cheap whisky is blended, but to try a decent blend. Think I prefer this to JW Green Label which is blend of 15 yr-old malts. More memorable.
Hints of Islay? My old man's a big Chivas fan, so that's the prescribed nightcap whenever I manage to get down.
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@Victor-Meldrew @pakman Not going to be my go to then. I enjoy the odd Lagavulin but find Laphroaig a bit too much.
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@Catogrande said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew @pakman Not going to be my go to then. I enjoy the odd Lagavulin but find Laphroaig a bit too much.
How do you drink it? I just add a bottle top of water.
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@Catogrande said in Recipes, home grown goodness, BBQing and food stuff:
@Victor-Meldrew @pakman Not going to be my go to then.
Try JW Green Label - way less peaty but damned good.
I enjoy the odd Lagavulin but find Laphroaig a bit too much.
Lagavulin is like Listerine on steroids. Got absolutely rat-arsed on the stuff a few years back. Still shudder.
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