Whats In The Glass (commercial)

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Beer Here Dark Hops Hoppy Black Ale (Denmark)
$13 - $14 500ml Crown Cellars.
Nice aroma.
Nice head.
Darker than the Black Cat.
Tastier than the Black Cat too! Very nice. Very stouty. Full flavoured. Bittersweet, the hops arent really dominant, they just stop it being a desert type beer. My pick of the bunch from the 4 Beer Here beers Ive tried.
8.5% alc! This could do some damage!
Extra .5 point for the awesome label.
7.5/10

 

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Lagunitas Brown Shugga. Sweet release.
?Americal brown ale?
Approx $5 / 375ml. BeerMasons mail order.
A brown ale (?) made in California.
Great aroma, nice tan coloured foamy head.
Cramael and more caramel taste, smooth mouthfeel, lingering bitter aftertaste. Reminiscent of a good porter, but more intense flavours.
Had to have bitter in there somewhere @ 51.1 IBU
And 9.99% abv too.
Nice for a change, but I dont know if I could drink 2 in a row.
7/10

 

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Arrived today.

 

[jbowers]

Where did you pick those puppies up?

 

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Beer Masons. :beerbang:

 

[.DJ.]

Crappy iPhone Pic alert!

a beer that my BIL brought back from the US...

Easily one of the best IPA's ive had..

 

[schooey]

Had to drink a stubbie of TED today to aoid being a rude prick to the neighbour... <_<

Came home and washed my mouth out with this...





Awesome ******* beer... :icon_drool2:

 

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Bloke @ Crown Cellars recommended them.
Not a bad drop, which is just as well because I got 1/2 a dozen.

 

[Bizier]

Crappy iPhone Pic alert!

a beer that my BIL brought back from the US...

Easily one of the best IPA's ive had..

Mmm... fresh Lagunitas.

 

[.DJ.]

with a price of $3.30 per stubby...

 

[going down a hill]

A little bottle-o down the road had some stock of Budvar Dark Lager, didn't know that one existed! I love the standard, and this one is just as beautiful, it is quite sweet and caramel flavoured almost cola-ish. I have never tasted a beer like it, come to think about it I dont think I have ever tasted a dark lager.

Pic found on net.

 

[Bribie G]

Kozel of CZ do a dark lager as well, as you say very sweetish. I recognised the taste straight away, it's a style that still exists in Eastern Europe and even the Middle East - used to drink something similar in Turkey and in Israel - but seems to have died out in the West. German dunkels are extremely different. I wonder how they get that sweetness. Oh and Baltika 4 from Russia is nice if you like that style and made with a fair bit of rye. Wish we had a Dans in Caboolture.

 

[going down a hill]

Kozel of CZ do a dark lager as well, as you say very sweetish. I recognised the taste straight away, it's a style that still exists in Eastern Europe and even the Middle East - used to drink something similar in Turkey and in Israel - but seems to have died out in the West. German dunkels are extremely different. I wonder how they get that sweetness. Oh and Baltika 4 from Russia is nice if you like that style and made with a fair bit of rye. Wish we had a Dans in Caboolture.

Well, I know what I'm going to be looking for now.

I drank a fair bit of Kozel last year and didn't realise it was a lager, Dan's had 3 for $10 special last year (i'm not trying to rub it in). I can't get over the cola taste that is in the Budvar, the bottle says that they used Pale, Munich, Caramel and Roasted Malts.

 

[Pennywise]

Bloke @ Crown Cellars recommended them.
Not a bad drop, which is just as well because I got 1/2 a dozen.

If that's the ESB they had on hand pump at the brewery a month or so back, damn it's good

 

[Pennywise]

Kozel of CZ do a dark lager as well

Damn fine beer that one, one of the few beers we have to buy if SWMBO see's one on the shelf, and I need to buy a few becuase the biatch drinks em' on me

 

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I had to see what everyone was talking about.
It's pretty f'kn nice I must say!

I am curious as to why it's called a "strong pale ale" though, at 4.1% abv - not that it really matters - see above.

 

[humulus]

I had to see what everyone was talking about.
It's pretty f'kn nice I must say!

I am curious as to why it's called a "strong pale ale" though, at 4.1% abv - not that it really matters - see above.

+1 for Timmy Taylors!

 

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on the agenda for tonight.
Sipping the White Rabbit Dark Ale as I post this - thats a seriously nice beer for the price.

edit:
onto the Holgate Hopinator double IPA now, thats not a bad drop either.

The choice tonight was between these 4 for $20, or one of these: http://shop.belgianshop.com/acatalog/Trapp...Cru_Beer_75.jpg for (IIRC) $22.95
I'll most likely get around to that one, but for now I'm pleased with the 4 different ones I bought home.

 

[mwd]

Nice to see someone who is really getting a great amount of commercial beers taste tested. Wish we had some of the examples available up here. Shame about the price on some of them though

I kind of cringe when buying a 4 pack of Punk IPA and I think I saw Duvel at $49.00

 

[Cube]

Oh dear god no...... received this pic in the email...... and it's not a joke.... obvious who is going to make it!

Sure - not in the glass as such but a commercial beer non-the-less and I can assure you it will be shit house in the glass when it comes out :icon_vomit:

Like the embossed glass thou....