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Well ..pop down to yer local Sainsburys ...Andsome ....

... Ive just picked up some Fullers London porter for £1.33 per bottle  (its a  dark)

Chocolate malts and fuggle hops ...taste's like Nuky brown should taste if they didn't bland it for the mass market

I just picked up half a dozen for £1.32 per bottle. I haven't made up my mind yet what to spend the 6p on.

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Hope you didn't miss the Young's Kew Brew clearance at £1.29 (500ml bottle) .

A very light golden with a flower/hoppy subtle aftertaste ...... excellent (must be chilled) out in the garden Sunday afternoon ...(me tomorrow) yet its 5% ... a quaffer without a doubt .......

I'm getting very boring since I bought this beer chiller fridge ...but its so much better than cans of stella or grolsh after a hard days chore with the children ....to put your feet up to . ....gotto keep it varied ......

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well Andsome ...whats yer opinion ...?

I had my usual three quarters of a bottle of wine with my Saturday evening meal, so I had to wait for a few minutes. I thought it advisable to try just one, I have to admit, I didn't think it possible for anything so good to come from south of Watford. Very well balanced, very smooth, creamy, and an excellent flavour. It will have a permanent place on my shopping list. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Innis & Gunn

Oak Aged Beer goes through a unique 77-day maturation process (ten times the national average for ales), which includes 30 days resting in lightly toasted American white oak barrels. After this, the beer is taken from the barrels and ageing continues for a further 47 days in a 'marrying tun', where the flavours infuse and mellow. This allows natural carbonation to take place, giving bottles of Oak Aged Beer a light effervescence similar to champagne

This is always there in Sainsburys on the bottomshelf , never really bothered with it as its a 330ml bottle

Im on number 4 now and Im still not too sure .......a distinct wiskery finish and smell

like a wiskey depth charge in a fairly decent summer ale

couple more perhaps

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couple more perhaps

Oak Aged Beer 6.6%

Tasting Notes:

Colour: Honey

Palate: Luxurious malt and toffee giving way to mellow oak with vanilla

overtones. Balanced by the orange peel citrus character. Warming

Finish: Floral, soothing oak with vanilla more evident, lemon zest. Pour me another!

Hey, that looks yummy. And a "modest" 6.6%, not a silly 8.5% ABV.

So tell me are you going to GBBF at Earls Court in August 2007..??

Festival Photographs 2006

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heh.... quite possibly

not sure whoever wrote that about the finish ......actually drank it ..?..a most individual one for me ...Its like Jack Daniels himself has gotup and tweaked yer schnoz as soon as you put your glass down ..

vanilla ,lemon zest ...? bollacks

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vanilla ,lemon zest ...?

I know I've not tried this beer - yet - but:

To get the vanilla, try holding the beer in yer mouth for 5 secs, before swallowing. OK then , pretend it's wine, but make sure you swallow the stuff. Remember vanilla tastes like, well, bird's custard. I reckon it's tastes of custard :rolleyes:

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Hmmm tonight its bitter and twisted by Harviestoun (itsa bit scottish) Blond beer

an IPA methinks..... at 4.2 its a light but very tasty ,another one for your shopping basket andsome (Sainsburys ) needs to be chilled ...you'll enjoy this one

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Hmmm tonight its bitter and twisted by Harviestoun (itsa bit scottish) Blond beer

an IPA methinks..... at 4.2 its a light but very tasty ,another one for your shopping basket andsome (Sainsburys ) needs to be chilled ...you'll enjoy this one

I might give it a try. The problem is that with all this damp weather my trousers waistbands have been shrinking, so I do need to cut back a little. :lol:

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oooeeerrrr

Mission to Sainsburys ......two good heavies on offer

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£2.75 for this Belgian beer (8.5%) its a heavy but it looks like a light quaffer and tastes like a full bodied Budweiser (Czech original) buy now or miss a good un (Its a £1 off ...expensive at £3.75 .reasonable at £2.75)

wire caged corked 750ml bottle ...wish I had bought more than two ...

brakspear_beer_bottle_triple1.jpgBrakspear Triple (Oxford)...triple fermented bottle matured (7.2%) red .........

a fav ....superb finish

May be a bit late for work tomarrh captain!

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back on the Innis and Gunn again

I am so starting to like this ... 1 hour in the freezer ...just right

At last! An Englishman who does not like warm beer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowers:

Glad you came to your senses Tankus!

Guinness does need to be well chilled. Most English bitters though are best drunk at about 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit. :D

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back on the Innis and Gunn again

I am so starting to like this ... 1 hour in the freezer ...just right

At last! An Englishman who does not like warm beer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :flowers:

Glad you came to your senses Tankus!

Guinness does need to be well chilled. Most English bitters though are best drunk at about 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit. :D

Guinness dose not need to be chilled, if it is kept properly it is best at or just below room temperature, it has no taste at all when chilled. I still say the only reason to chill proper beer is if you don't like the taste, in which case why buy it.

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