Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Fuller's 1845

In 1995 Fuller's dusted off the recipe of their original beer to mark the 150th anniversary. The resulting beer became an instant classic. Reached 97 percentile on ratebeer. This is an excellent English strong ale, strong earthly flavour, one can just about smell the dirty pubs of industrial era England. This is stuff Dicken's characters are made of. Great beer.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Duvel


This is one serious beer. It has really funny text at the back claiming that the beer you are drinking is exactly like the one they serve in some central square in Brussels. As if I gave a shit about what eurobots are drinking!
Anyway, they must be proper drinkers as Duvel is not for weak. At 8.5 percent one can actually discern alcohol in the taste. Regardless, it is very nice, smooth and bitter at the same time. Even those idiots at ratebeer.com give it 96 percentiles. Lucky bastards, these Eurocrats...

Coors Light

This is a cheap beer that everyone hates. I don't hate it that much. It's got a well designed bottle, a little fancy "rocky mountain icon" that is supposed to turn blue when it is cold enough (although my tempering in freezer didn't make it very blue, but I could just about notice a bluish hue). While not noticable, its taste is not offensive. Better than e.g. San Miguel.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Blandford Fly

There is a silly story attached to this beer as well, something to do with flies and ginger that is supposed to scare them away. Anyway, the bottom line is that this beer has ginger in it and ginger is something that I like a lot! The only problem is that this beer is really a bit too sweet and hence much less refreshing that it could have been. Really not sure what were they trying to do when designing this beer...

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Fursty Ferret


When in decades past the idyllic country home of Miss Rose Gribble became a local inn, legend has it that the inquisitive local ferrets frequented the pub's back door on a mission to sample its own reputed brew. In their honour it was named Fursty Ferret.
A hoppy, sweetish ale with a distinctive bitter character, a classical English real ale. Good stuff.