Beer thread
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@Catogrande said in Beer thread:
@pakman What with already having a slice of lime with the Plymouth I thought the cucumber would be a step too far.
I’m no fan of Hendricks!
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@pakman said in Beer thread:
@Catogrande said in Beer thread:
@pakman What with already having a slice of lime with the Plymouth I thought the cucumber would be a step too far.
I’m no fan of Hendricks!
For me it’s one of those “one is nice, two is less so” gins.
I do have a special bottle given to the the Strategic Recconnaisance Regiment that I have yet to crack. I’ll probably wait till I have someone round that I want to impress and then yarn about my time in the Western Desert.
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This little number is a goody. Small but incredibly powerful, deceptively so, it doesn’t taste 14.9% to be honest.
Urbanaut are doing some brilliant beers at the moment, you can also buy two in one package and mix them ! Genius !!!
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Just settled into a nice pint of hazy at pomeroys in Christchurch. One of the finest pubs in the country
Edit: and it's thirty six degrees outside. Dry but crazy heat
How can it be one of the finest pubs in the country if you have to be in Christchurch to experience it?
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@Crucial said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Just settled into a nice pint of hazy at pomeroys in Christchurch. One of the finest pubs in the country
Edit: and it's thirty six degrees outside. Dry but crazy heat
How can it be one of the finest pubs in the country if you have to be in Christchurch to experience it?
Imagine how awesome it would be if it was in Palmy!
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@Crucial said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Just settled into a nice pint of hazy at pomeroys in Christchurch. One of the finest pubs in the country
Edit: and it's thirty six degrees outside. Dry but crazy heat
How can it be one of the finest pubs in the country if you have to be in Christchurch to experience it?
Imagine how awesome it would be if it was in Palmy!
You’d have died of chlamidia before you made it to the front door.
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@Crucial said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Just settled into a nice pint of hazy at pomeroys in Christchurch. One of the finest pubs in the country
Edit: and it's thirty six degrees outside. Dry but crazy heat
How can it be one of the finest pubs in the country if you have to be in Christchurch to experience it?
Imagine how awesome it would be if it was in Palmy!
You’d have died of chlamidia before you made it to the front door.
Maybe that's what BOD meeting by 'i coulda doid'?
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
@Crucial said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Just settled into a nice pint of hazy at pomeroys in Christchurch. One of the finest pubs in the country
Edit: and it's thirty six degrees outside. Dry but crazy heat
How can it be one of the finest pubs in the country if you have to be in Christchurch to experience it?
Imagine how awesome it would be if it was in Palmy!
You’d have died of chlamidia before you made it to the front door.
That’s Hamilton
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I did some mathematic, and figured out how much I spend on craft beer each week. Spoiler: too much.
So - figured I'd try to downgrade a bit, and try some of the "pseudo-craft" beers out there.
Mistake.
Monteith's "Sounds Hazy"... what the fuck. I genuinely don't know what this actually is... there is zero taste. Like - less than Heineken zero. I tried it out of the bottle, I tried pouring it into a glass, I noticed there's a shit-heap of sediment in the bottom of the bottle, I swirled the bottle around for 5 minutes to get all the sediment into the beer - drank it out of the bottle, tried again with getting all the sediment back into the beer, poured it into a glass.
Zero taste.
In fact, maybe looking back at the name of it... I'd always assumed the "Sounds" was a marketing name referring to Marlborough Sounds. But maybe, it's just that the product "sounds like a hazy beer", but sure as hell doesn't taste like one.Never again... until I forget, and get one thinking "at least it's better than the generic other options on tap", and then remember... nope, I'd have been better going with water, or Steinlager, or Wild Buck.
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BTW - I've avoided becoming full-blown beer nerd, but I truly do have a deep fear of forgetting how bad the Monteith's "Hazy" was...
and am semi-seriously considering getting an app like untappd... does anybody else have it, use it, recommend it? Would it be useful for the one purpose I have... which is remembering which beers are shit, which I enjoyed, etc.I don't give a shit about the social aspect of it... as far as I'm concerned, drinking is me-time... the fact that pubs have other people is a necessary evil. Hot barmaids, that's the only social interaction I need when drinking.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@Kruse considered doing some home brewing? You'll get craft beer for about a dollar a pint ... fresh and tasty at home
Too much work, too little space.
I've got less than 50sqm in my entire apartment, including balcony.
I did try some back in the Uni days, did one batch, was shit, gave up.
Feel free to talk me into it though, I'm on a roll for being influenced by the Fern. If you convince me I can do it in my limited space, with no real temperature control - I'd probably buy a kit on the way home. -
@Kruse said in Beer thread:
Feel free to talk me into it though, I'm on a roll for being influenced by the Fern. If you convince me I can do it in my limited space, with no real temperature control - I'd probably buy a kit on the way home.
I've been batching micro batches of about 10L. Just uses stovetop and oven in a 20L pot, and cool it in your sink. For ghetto brewing (I'm down with this) you can ferment in the damn pot, with a swamp cooler around it of water and a towel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler).
If you genuinely don't have space for a pot and tray somewhere, so be it, but it's a nice pathway to great, cheap beer. Personally, I love the brewing part of it, but you can brew 'good' tasty beers in an hour or so. To get great beers is like 'great' coffee - you go down a rabbit hole of diminishing returns. And - for context, there are few 'great' beers on the market; you'll be brewing competitively with most commercial craft beer (and way better than most of the beer sold on the market) very quickly
Edit: Happy to post more if folk are interested. I've been brewing a decade or so, and have gone the full range from 110L right down to 9L batches,
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the results of GABS Hot 100 poll have come out. Hazy's dominate with Garage Project's Sunrise Valley the Peoples #1 Choice
GABS Festival | Beer Festivals, Craft Beer & Food Experiences
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GP have 5 in the top 15. Panhead's Supercharger APA is the most widely available of the top 10 in that it's in all? Lion pubs.
https://www.gabsfestival.com/nz-live-countdown-2020
I've sampled most of the top 30 but only 45 of the entire 100 Work to do!!
