tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post6552048647749969021..comments2024-03-23T04:23:48.076+00:00Comments on Tandleman's Beer Blog: Open PreviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-87829963768390862112013-04-04T21:51:44.059+01:002013-04-04T21:51:44.059+01:00Sheps Stones Double IPA was, I think, one of the b...Sheps Stones Double IPA was, I think, one of the best beers ever brewed in this country. Certainly miles better than anything else Sheps have ever done.<br /><br />I actually quite liked the (also Sheps) Central City Red Racer IPA when I tried it last night. Not as 'big' as I was hoping for, but had the transatlantic flavour profile I was hoping for.<br /><br />The Coffee Porter is a strange one. Very thin beer until the very end where the coffee comes through strongly in the finish. Completely the opposite of Titantic Cappuccino which I tried at the weekend, where the coffee is front-loaded and hits you on the nose. Benjamin Nunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12735110277517005667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-4649964475144689982013-04-04T21:35:59.384+01:002013-04-04T21:35:59.384+01:00I'm hoping to have a crack at this at the week...I'm hoping to have a crack at this at the weekend, though I fear nothing offered this time will top the Freeminer Deep Shaft Stout found at the last festival...that may have been my pint of the year, if I'd have found it in the first pub I visited I doubt I'd have moved on!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152737463104621856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-25246898640902732102013-04-04T13:45:00.355+01:002013-04-04T13:45:00.355+01:00johng, I remember the Stone well, Sheps brewer mus...johng, I remember the Stone well, Sheps brewer must have had a heart attack when he saw hop profile - probably used up a year's supply<br /><br />sadly no-one since has come close - probably at least partly related to Spoons' purchase price policies. I think the worst example though was when the lady from Bend brewing came over and said something like 'I brew very hoppy beers at home, but for the UK I know I have to brew something more balanced'... Er, NO! The point of flying in foreign brewers is surely to brew their beer, not to come and brew something exactly the same as what 90% of our brewers are doing!Dave Uhttp://www.steelcitybrewing.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-86057560450446231452013-04-04T12:33:28.196+01:002013-04-04T12:33:28.196+01:00Glad to hear good things about the Devils Backbone...Glad to hear good things about the Devils Backbone beer, especially as they are one of my local breweries here in Virginia, and damned good to boot!Velky Alhttp://www.fuggled.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-44902385780654622552013-04-03T23:16:58.411+01:002013-04-03T23:16:58.411+01:00These foriegn brewers are taking a big gamble brew...These foriegn brewers are taking a big gamble brewing a beer for Wetherspoons.Most have damaged their reputations rather than improved them by brewing dull beers.Remember Stones ipa from a few years back.Now that was a cracker.johngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-29211489663478527812013-04-03T17:50:33.484+01:002013-04-03T17:50:33.484+01:00Answering your concluding question, I had the Corf...Answering your concluding question, I had the Corfiot porter & the American amber ale last night, & I thought the porter was fine but totally unremarkable; I've had better coffee porters, never mind porters generally. The Q of whether the damn furriners get the essence of the style doesn't really apply in the case of the AAA, though. Like you, I thought it was good, but by the time I was halfway through I wished I'd ordered a half - the way AAAs turn everything up to eleven gets a bit overpowering for me.Philhttp://ohgoodale.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-38065231834290530622013-04-03T17:03:55.739+01:002013-04-03T17:03:55.739+01:00Ah-ha, there must be a shortened version as a flye...Ah-ha, there must be a shortened version as a flyer, perhaps done by or for the individual pubs. Bryan the BeerVikinghttp://beerviking.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-46841466480531663702013-04-03T15:41:30.586+01:002013-04-03T15:41:30.586+01:00The PDF is much better. The printed version is ver...The PDF is much better. The printed version is very brief and poorly laid out. Quite cheap looking, in fact. Whilst the PDF is bursting with information. Digital media 1 Hard copy 0Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-36545007652348156662013-04-03T13:07:28.707+01:002013-04-03T13:07:28.707+01:00The leaflet I got in the pub does NOT show the bre...The leaflet I got in the pub does NOT show the brewery of origin no matter what your pdf might show.<br /><br />The one in the pub is clearly different. Not saying it is a secret.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-14595410818868107752013-04-03T12:50:22.237+01:002013-04-03T12:50:22.237+01:00I was thinking damn sure I'd read it in the le...I was thinking damn sure I'd read it in the leaflet they published last month, maybe the pdf is different to the printed booklet,but normally it has a little piece on the foreign brewers visiting these places...odd...even more odd having perused the list again looks like some JDWs were 'previewing' as early as SaturdayStonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656315721111561414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-53995803138641707252013-04-03T12:00:25.250+01:002013-04-03T12:00:25.250+01:00Oh yes it does! Here's the programme...
http:...Oh yes it does! Here's the programme...<br /><br />http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/static/pdfs/admin-generated/podium/real-ale-festival-april-183.pdf?t=1361961426<br /><br />Red Racer: "Shepherd Neame Brewery (in Kent)"<br />Vasileostrovsky: "Banks’s Brewery (in the West Midlands)"<br />etc.<br /><br />Though I guess you could argue that Banks's (for example) has multiple actual brewery plants in WMids.Bryan the BeerVikinghttp://beerviking.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-51580302963054150622013-04-03T11:02:16.163+01:002013-04-03T11:02:16.163+01:00Mudgie and Tyson. The leaflet does NOT indicate a...Mudgie and Tyson. The leaflet does NOT indicate at which British breweries the beers are brewed.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-74233979664302819592013-04-03T10:56:50.462+01:002013-04-03T10:56:50.462+01:00I hope this doesn't mean they stop serving the...I hope this doesn't mean they stop serving the cheap Ruddles to free up a hand pump.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-80569551919749597832013-04-03T10:54:36.590+01:002013-04-03T10:54:36.590+01:00PC
You've been misinformed. It clearly tells ...PC<br /><br />You've been misinformed. It clearly tells you where they have been brewed. <br /><br />From my limited sampling so far, I've also found the beers on the green side. Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-89891825097281859412013-04-03T10:46:44.829+01:002013-04-03T10:46:44.829+01:00Someone was telling me that this year's beer f...Someone was telling me that this year's beer festival leaflet doesn't say at which British breweries the festival beers are brewed, which seems a little disingenuous.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.com