Cheers + BIERS

[Metalwrath]

yeah some people have already sent in Iron Maiden pictures of receiving it.Currently i think you can only order a case from the brewery.The problem about this is the shiping cost and i suspect once shipped over it wil get stopped in customs where whatever country you live in will place whatever alchohol tax they have on top of it.This is somethign i need to find out about.I know when ordering a case of mead from Germany i didn't have this problem.i think beer is different though.

[gnoff_the_creep]

In Sweden it is only problem if customs opens the box

yup, seems available for EU countries:
http://www.ironmaidenbeer.com/iron-maiden-trooper.html

[Memnoch]

I think it's all about luck whether you have to pay tax or not. I ordered 24 bottles of beer from Brewdog in Scotland and it sneaked past customs just fine. But I've seen people having to pay taxes, so, yeah, it's just luck.

[gnoff_the_creep]

They want £15.60 for a case

and another £44.11 for shipping to Sweden

Not getting it anytime soon


seems Brands For Fans will get it so Scandinavia "soon" though

http://www.brandsforfans.se/bff/spotlig ... s_trooper/

[mooyagi]

but my strogn side is porters and stouts

Good man!

[gnoff_the_creep]

but my strogn side is porters and stouts

Good man!

always

[gnoff_the_creep]

They want £15.60 for a case

and another £44.11 for shipping to Sweden

Not getting it anytime soon


seems Brands For Fans will get it so Scandinavia "soon" though

http://www.brandsforfans.se/bff/spotlig ... s_trooper/

Systembolaget has stopped the beer "Trooper" for any sale due to its label.

"A skulled monster with a bloody sword and a Brittish flag is not compatible with Swedish alcohol laws."

It is faaar from the first time a beer can not be sold due to the label...

IT should still be able to be sold at bars though.

[gnoff_the_creep]

Brewing a pale ale today, skipping the shows, just feeling like creating something and then after relaxing at home with some beers

[Speedy]

Enjoying one of my favorites:

Smoked ale spiced with juniper

[mooyagi]

Enjoying one of my favorites:

Smoked ale spiced with juniper

That's a really, really good one.

[TOM CRUISE]

Enjoying one of my favorites:

Smoked ale spiced with juniper

LOVE THAT BREWERY.

[gnoff_the_creep]

I gave that beer a 3.0, decent, not fantastic

[KDibildeaux]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/06/travel/us ... ?hpt=hp_c4

[gnoff_the_creep]

Brewing a pale ale today, skipping the shows, just feeling like creating something and then after relaxing at home with some beers

will be a mix of US (Cascade) and NZ (Riwaka) also with a twist, added Coriander/Cilantro for some extra summer feeling to it.

Bubbling away nicely this morning.


My mead from Friday has yet to start a noticable fermentation, but I'm sure it will in some days.

[gnoff_the_creep]

oooh my
had my annual tasting of a speciality beer yesterday
for the ones who want to know more about one of the absolute best beers I have ever had, here goes


O’Hanlon’s Thomas Hardy’s Ale (2003 - 2008)

Rerate - 8th annual tasting of my 25 year quest
2005 vintage, bottle no 04549.
250 ml bottle marked 11.7% vol. Black cap and medal around the bottle neck.
Sampled on May 11, 2013.
Pours clear dark reddish brown color, displays a tan bubbly head.
Scent comes out lovely and intense, leads out with raisins, dried prunes, malty, sweet, sugar, molasses, fruit cake, alcohol, dark chocolate, port wine, madeira, then after a while also comes a note of wet tobacco as well. Lovely lovely stuff, can smell this forever.
Taste then is powerful and intense as well, it is sweet, smooth, tobacco, sugary, muscovado, raisins in cognac, port wine, fresh raisins, it just won't stop, beautiful, intense and lovely, also very complex.
Tobacco and raisin aftertaste.
Warming alcohol, but in a glowing good way.
Big, smooth, velvet like mouthfeel.
Medium low bitterness.
My first comment on the beer to my mate after some sighs was "why don't they make this beer any more?".
2005 is one of the best vintages I've had from this beer, and I feel lucky this is the vintage I chose for my 25 years of "try one per year" journey.
This rerate is my second 5.0 beer so far after mroe than 7 years on ratebeer to this date.
Lovely and awesome, I am in awe as to how this beer has developed until now. I can't see how the beer will improve even more to my taste, and the coming yearly event for the next 17 years will be interesting indeed.
10/5/10/5/20=5.0

All my ratings of this beer:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ohanlons-t ... 915/32615/

[Memnoch]

I need this clock: http://www.amazon.com/VASKO-beer-cervez ... B0054SZ8C8

[Chris]

Don't know why I didn't see this thread earlier.
I haven't been buying much lately. Mostly drinking my own, which now is a porter.
I just bottled some mead (hiprocras) last week, and have a small batch of spiced apple wine fermenting now.
The last beer I bought:

From New Glarus, one of my favorite Wisconsin breweries. It's the result of a smaller cherry harvest that is normally used in their "Belgian Red" a lambic sort of beer. I think I almost like this mixture of fruit over the pure cherry one. Pretty decent stuff if you like sweet/sour stuff like that.

[gnoff_the_creep]

Put a brown ale on bottle tonight, will be competing with it early June.
Also racked a pale ale to secondary, US and NZ hops and some coriander.
Measured my mead that is very slowly fermenting, first time on this yeast. When done I'll flavor it with blackberries in the secondary.

Will brew tomorrow morning, likely a variant on a brown porter, with a twist, we'll see what I conjure up.
Hope to find the energy to measure and grind my malt tonight to shave off half an hour or so tomorrow, need to get done early and head to a birthday party later on.

[Speedy]

Austmann's first beer, a 5% saison, is on its way

[Monmisreal]

Ive been kind of absent from this forum lately haha. I cant think of any really intriguing beers ive had lately, but thats only because I missed out on a local brewery's Brett release 7venth Sun Brewery bottled up a batch of Brett Saison Extreme 3 that went on sale friday evening...and was completely sold out by mid saturday morning. Just lameee.

Ill be kegging my wheat stout tomorrow, so ill finally have enough beer kegged to have me at a little bit of a bottleneck when it comes to brewing. I was going to try my hand at a wine, but I ended up deciding to try my hand at a lager for the first time. Going to brew up a Munich Helles tomorrow, so im quite excited about that.

[gnoff_the_creep]

sooo much good biers!

3 vintages oaked aged yeti
sam adams utopias 10 year anniversary
much more

drunk, indeed

[mooyagi]

drunk, indeed

That means more drunk Gnoff emails!

[gnoff_the_creep]

drunk, indeed

That means more drunk Gnoff emails!

since your damn phone hates my drunk texts, emails it is

[mooyagi]

drunk, indeed

That means more drunk Gnoff emails!

since your damn phone hates my drunk texts, emails it is

That phone's such a piece of shit. The battery was full but it just died on me so now I have to go charge it.

[gnoff_the_creep]

one of the beers last night




These were very nice too

[Monmisreal]

You and your oak aged yetis

Oh man im learning more and more about homebrew kegging setups. Either I did a shitty job transferring my kolsch or you can not let them sit for a few weeks without having a beer here or there. I poured about 4 straight beers full of crud that settled at the bottom of the keg I stared at the glass kind of puzzled because it was a kind of nasty greenish color, then it hit me haha.

[Pero]

Gnoff, is the top one Sam Adams?

[gnoff_the_creep]

Gnoff, is the top one Sam Adams?

yep, Utopias 10 year anniversary
29% ABV

so very tasty

[gnoff_the_creep]

You and your oak aged yetis

They don't call me the Yeti king for nothing

[Monmisreal]

A couple more and youll turn into a yeti

[gnoff_the_creep]

A couple more and youll turn into a yeti

I'm on my way!

[gnoff_the_creep]

Word has it that famous Swedish craft brewery Närke Kulturbryggeri (maker of the much sought after Kaggen) have made a special metal ale for Metallsvenskan festival that starts Friday, much looking forward to getting drunk on craft ale rather than the usual lager swill

[mooyagi]

Tried the Dragoon Dos Imperial Stout at dinner last night. It was decent but I prefer the Uno.

[Speedy]

Best way to open a beer ever:
http://www.dbtv.no/?vid=2403374464001

[Chris]

Looks like that takes skill. Very impressive.
Probably too time consuming though.

[Speedy]

Enjoying an Infinity Double IPA at Trondhjem Mikrobryggeri while waiting for the Jorn concert tonight.

[mooyagi]

Drank some Sam Adams White Lantern last night. Not too bad. Like most of the brewery's springtime flavors, it's decent but nothing memorable. Got better the more I had.

Not the highest rated beer in the world, but I really enjoy Sam Adams Summer Ale. I have some in the fridge now. Great to drink on hot days.

[Memnoch]

I got to try a proper beer for Chewie in Copenhagen last week with Gnoff and Fredrik: