Beer Time

Having a couple of locals today: Squatters Captain ******* Oatmeal Stout and a Squatters Hefeweizen. Both are some great brews from UT.
 
Young's Old Nick, a barley wine style ale.

Brewed and bottled in England ,7.5% alcohol.

Interesting note on label " Serve at 50-55 deg. F.



I don't think so.. warm beer has never been my thing. Why do the British drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators... an old MG joke.

Hey any brew with a picture of flames and the devil on the label can't be all bad.
 
Since I've been drinking craft beers, I can actually drink them warm now. Have not had any Old Nick's yet, but it is on my list. I love barleywines. Try some Victory Old Horizontal, I think you will like it.
 
I've had Victory Hop Devil. There I go with the devil theme again. When I opened the bottle the hops came out of the bottle crawled across the table to get me. Yeah it was a hop flavor I can't forget.
 
Hop Devil is an excellent brew, as well is the Hop Wallop, well, just about everything Victory makes is, LOL
 
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Im a Duvel guy, worth the price in my mind. Without the special glass from Duvel its just not the same though...



Somone mentioned Utah in the thread, when I was traveling through there once I took a look at some local microbrews in a "Beer Store". Thinking this would be a non beer town due to the religious influence I was shocked to see a 6 pack with this Motto "Take some home for the Wives" An obvious stab at men who marry more than one woman, must make the locals really happy...



I bought a 6 pack and brought it home to show friends but cant recall if it was any good or even its name. Maybe that means it was good?
 
About the Polygamy beer, honestly I cant recall, it was a while back during the Olympics in Utah so its been a few years.... sounds like a good name for that motto though? might be it.



regarding Duvel, I once ordered it with my East Coast accent as Doo Vell. I was quickly corrected by the Belgians, that's where I was at the time. Its supposed to roughly translate to Devil, so its Doo Ville. They really made a huge deal about it.



Beer to them was something they had a lot of national pride in. They would watch me drink and make faces at me when I tried one of their beers I didn't like. Its the place to be if your a beer guy though. The Abbey ales were something, you could skip meals for days and just drink the Abbey Ales. If what they told me is true, the reason for that is, the Monks had to fast so no food, but they could drink. This made the beers they produced almost a meal in itself.



They look at US beer as a crime on brewing. One man told me that during prohibition all the master brewers fled the USA and went back to Europe, he claims that this is the reason we have had bad beer here for years. Only with Microbreweries has that made a change for the better. I dont know if thats true but the story was repeated everywhere I went....
 
Interesting. Yes, belgian beers are probably the best in the world. Trappist brew's which are also made in Beligium are in a league of the own, very very tasty, these are the one's made by monks. But let me say, American craft brew's are some of the best in the world as well. We have some excellent brewery's: Rogue, Stone, AleSmith, Anderson Valley, Anchor, Bear Republic, Dogfish Head, Victory, Avery, Russian River, Bell's, Three Floyds, Sierra Nevada, Mendocino, South Hampton, and many others. Don't let anyone tell you we Americans cannot brew beer/ale's.
 
I agree, they seemed to think we all drink Bud or Bud Light. Micro brews are good but a relatively new thing here. I had no idea why we were considered poor beer makers, never even thought Prohibition was a factor..... guess the brew masters were out of work, most were from Europe so they just went home? Its taken a long time for us to begin to make beer that competes rather than the mass produced Beers. I gotta watch watch what I say as AB is one of our biggest clients........



Of course this was all told to me by various drunks all over Belgian bars take it with a grain of salt...



The size of the beers they served and how man of them people drank at one sitting astounded me, yet they were all very healthy looking and none were overweight. It was really enlightening to see the difference that jumps out at you versus an American bar. Hard to explain but the second you walk in you see it.
 
Having a couple of Great Divide's Hibernation Ale, very tasty with some roasted malt's and a little hoppy finish. Anyone having anything today?
 
cracked open a Duvel about 5 mins ago, as usual my dog is now my best friend. He loves just a lick of foam from my finger. Sleeps like a baby and snores less than normal.



Once or twice though I must have given him too much, or he snuck some when I made a trip to the bathroom, he is an angry drunk....... Barks at stuffed animals, walls everything.



Just wish I had a Duvel glass, using a Chimay glass, odd how important the glass is with some beers.
 
I'm spending the bulk of february in yorkshire u.k. and am having a boddington's here in the hilton. unfortunately we have an extremely limited selection and no guinness in the hotel, so I've been resorting to murphy's for the black stuff.



management at the client site insist they'll be taking me to an infamous pub nearby the office, so I'll have an opportunity to try some more interesting english brews this week.



curiously, toward the end of the week it's apparently acceptable behavior for staff to stop off at the pub for lunch and remain through the afternoon.
 
Having a Yeti tonight, very tasty brew from France. Think I will also drink my last bottle of DFH 90 min. Anyone else having a brew tonight?
 
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