Question beer......

[nath]

urquell ftw ?

Very much so, but I tend to go for a nice Staropramen. Budvar is nice too.

 

[Olgaline]

Btw, on the topic of Whisky

I recently triped over a bottle of Elements of Islay CL1 "Caol Ila"
I'm not the biggest of peat fans, "not that i dislike it either" but must admit I'm really enjoying this particular Bottle,

Spoiler

ps:
I've found the perfect "salty" bottle for you Toht

Fishky look it up

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it is done. The race is over. Not Arran nor Bruichladdich nor Edradour made it. Well, Bruichladdich made it in a way but they are not very amused I hear.

The Herring finish is here!

Bruichladdich 1992/2007 'Fishky' (50.2%, Stupid Cask, Germany) Ho-ho-ho! This is a very funny experiment made by some German guy, who bought a bourbon cask of Bruichladdich new make and let it mature in Scotland and then let it being re-racked in sherry in 2001, and finally let it being shipped to Berlin last year. Guess what, he did then a herring cask finishing on it to pay tribute to the early distillers who used to use herring casks to transport whisky (Well, just any casks I think). All that with lots of humour, he even chose ‘Stupid cask’ as the bottler’s name. Good one! Let’s try it now… Colour: gold - apricot. Nose: it’s perfectly all right, and even nice! Not that far from the Cadenhead’s, just rounder and with added hints of red fruits (raspberries, blackcurrant) and apricot jam. There may well be a little iodine in the background but I’m not too sure. An enjoyable nose, for sure, but it should all happen on the palate. Mouth: let’s go straight to the point: you have to like salt to like this. Actually, it does work and it does remind me of the infamous Loch Scainam Tlam we made a few years ago, blending various malts with 5% water from the Loch Indal (please read its name reversely). There’s quite some fruit jam, apricot pie and very ripe melon and most amazingly, the salt never completely takes control of the whole. Kind of a mixture of fruit spirit with salted liquorice and salted buttered toffee, in fact. Again, that works… until the finish! Indeed, the whisky slowly ‘vanishes’ as usual but the salt remains on your tongue and on your lips for a very, very long time… It’s a rather weird feeling but no problems at all, unless you had planned to try other whiskies just after this one. I didn’t, I had been warned . Anyway, I think they did this the best they could, and I doubt any other herring-finished whisky would ever be better than this one. Now, this first may also be a last… 83 points, and I’m not exaggerating at all.

 

[CorNokZ]

Looks like something we have locked up in our chemistry cabin at my school

 

[Olgaline]

Looks like something we have locked up in our chemistry cabin at my school

there's an AR1 and a LP1 as well

 

[old.Tohtori]

Oh i gotta get me some of those

 

[TdC]

gosh you guys make me want to tuck into my 16yo Jura. it's quite nice. I've had like a zillion beers though, so I better not :/

 

[JingleBells]

Where's the cider option

 

[WiZe^]

Where's the cider option

English cider or? (taste shit tbh)

 

[CorNokZ]

Where's the cider option

Well since it's not beer...

 

[Laddey]

Lager - Carling, Carlsberg, Kronies

 

[Olgaline]

Gotta say I'm abit suprised at the result so far...
This being a British forum and all, "yeye I know we also get weird swedes and fins" but still, would have thought a closer race between Ale and Lager than has been the case..


Gonna Try A glass of the French 1664 can for dinner tonight, sure it's main stream and cheap and so on, but I've never actually tried it so kinda curiose tbh, I've tried other French beers like a couple Beir de garde ect

 

[Scouse]

I'm of the opinion that there's too many categories. Why does "brown ale" differ from a bitter?

I'm a bitter/ale man myself, knowing that lager drinking pansies are just stuck in the yoof culture of drinking without flavour

 

[Scouse]

Well since it's not beer...

Lager *only just* fits the "beer" definition, so may as well have cider...

 

[CorNokZ]

Hey Scouse?

Spoiler

 

[Raven]

Lager *only just* fits the "beer" definition, so may as well have cider...

Well thats not quite true, lager has been given a bad name by the mass produced crap. There are some really good cask lagers about but they are pretty rare.

 

[Cemeterygates]

I'm no expert on what is what to be totally honest, but some of my faves are Theakston's Old Peculiar and Wychwood's Hobgoblin

 

[Uara]

Me I do love a good ale, dont really have a favourite at the moment although that may well change!