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LowlifeDes wrote:
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I wonder what pizza pairings would work best.
I know the very person to ask......
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With this one, a ham pizza becomes a Hawaiian.
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Choices choices.....I think it’ll be the square ale
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Yum yum yum...whitens the teeth, strengthens the gums and makes life a pleasure
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Associating berry flavours with sour beers, having them in a bitter is a bit bizarre. It is a bit reminiscent of a pink medicine I had as a child.
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One with a pancake for lunch, one with some rather good Malaysian satay after we'd failed to get into the Indonesian place.

The spicy one is basically a Pils with slightly fancy hops and just a hint of chilli warmth. And is rather good.
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This weekend was mostly about Derbyshirean beer...
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The Grinlow was fantastic
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I've just spent a (short) evening here...

https://brouwerijtroost.nl/depijp-amsterdam/

...and have worked my way through most of the bits of the list I'm interested in. I didn't quite have the stamina to get onto the barley wines.

Yes, I know, I'm a lightweight - in alcoholic tolerance if nothing else. But there's a limit to the extent you can talk bollocks with insurance risk professionals, and a limit to the extent you can take the piss when someone else is paying. And I was feeling a bit under par.
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Iris wrote:
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I've just spent a (short) evening here...

https://brouwerijtroost.nl/depijp-amsterdam/

...and have worked my way through most of the bits of the list I'm interested in.
Which were?
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Which were?
From memory...

Ordinary lager - good for the style
White beer - German style, and OK
Brunette brown ale - nice, but not as much depth of flavour as I'd hoped
Honey beer - the pick of the piece. A good, deep, honey flavour.
Lenten bock - strong and bitter without the decent rounded flavour the style needs.

And if I can remember five different beers, it must have been a short evening.
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It’s pouring with rain here....is it too early to start on the beer?
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Yes, and no.
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Post by LowlifeDes » 5 years ago

I have been given a beer by the bloke who works in the beer shop, as a thank you.
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It is a ltd edition colab between Buxton Brewery and Omnipollo. I will report some time later.
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Time to embrace the bitter
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