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Beers – 1/9/16

Cheeky Monkey – Travelling Monk Session Red Ale

Schofferhofer – Hefeweizen

Badger Brewing – Tangle Foot English Pale Ale

The Cheeky Monkey has a really nice bitterness that I dont think is all hops, and Im guessing the chocolate wheat and golden naked oats somehow add to that. The other maybe the Bravo hops – meant to be spicy – but Im unsure if I have encountered them before. Low alcohol [3.5 percent] and the nice bitterness make it very drinkable.

The Hefe was nice, an initial banana smell and taste, a spicyness with a nice refreshing citrus afterwards, not too spicy, but its there. This was well prices and definitely a beer I will buy again for casual drinking.

The Tangle Foot has a very nice sweet malty taste to it, caramel like, reminds me of chewing on some caraamber malt. Light fruity smell. It has a fair amount of bitterness to it, not too much, which is good with the lower carbonation. Its rather abrupt in taste, you sip it, taste it all and then it ends with a slight bitterness and sweetness left, no real lingering aftertaste. Its not bad.

Beers – 31/8/16

Magic Rock – High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale

Magic Rock – Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose

Holgate Brewing – Hop Tart Semi-Sour Pale Ale

Two canned beers from a UK Craft brewery, not something I see or drink often. Both interesting beers/styles with some interesting ingredients.
The High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale was nice and had a good grapefruit bitterness, sitting well with the hop bitterness. The Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose had a nice [goose]berry tartness along with the saltyness, It also contained Sea Buckthorne – which are a berry that tastes “astringent, sour”, and I think I can notice such a taste and it not being the gooseberries, but its hard to say having never tasted Sea Buckthorne.Both good beer, sessionable, refreshing and interesting.

The Hop Tart was also nice, and another sour pale ale – a good combination, I like sour appearing more. Very enjoyable with a nice big bitter and sour hit. Im not sure how many beers I have had from Holgate in the past but this was both tasty and, again, and interesting beer, so I will keep an eye on that name.

Also at the IBS were Hostess Twinkies. I purchased one and my review walking home eating it was:

“Doughy soft, kinda uncooked sponge. The filling is like Fluff marshmallow spread…Wouldn’t eat more than one. Very sweet.”

The sponge “cake” was surprising a lot sweeter than the filling.

And heres a picture or two

Beer 24/8/16

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Cheeky Monkey – Belgian IPA

This is nice. The bitterness of an IPA, not a crazy IPA, a moderate one, with the pepperyness from Rye and that Belgian yeastyness of a Saison. Its a good mix. Has the stink of NZ hops and Belgian Saison yeast.

Malts – Abbey, Rye, Caraaroma, Carahell
Hops – Rakau, Cascade, Motueka, Chinook

Doesnt list what particular yeast but I’d guess a Belgian possibly Saison yeast?

Beers 20/8/16

Tennents – Export Original Larger

Brains – Black Welsh Stout

Both of these were good. The larger has a maltyness I dont want to say sweet but, sweeter than a usual larger. A definite lagered yeast flavour, if thats a thing – not a funk but something like that.

The stout was nice and malty, again it has taste to it that wasnt crazy strange but had a different maltyness for a dark malt than I can pin on other beers of this style.

Beers 18/8/16

Founders – Re Dank Ulous Imperial Red IPA

8 Wire – Palate Trip Sour IPA

The Founders IRIPA was not very dank, to be honest, I wanted it to be a real dank stinker, but it was just a good beer. Not much else to say. It was good.

The 8 Wire sour IPA is really damn good. The bitter and the sour collide at the right point and work awesome together. Very tart, bitter, nice stuff. This is a style I would like to drink more of.

Beers 17/08/16

4 Pines – “Indian Summer” Pale Ale

4 Pines – ESB

The ESB is , and abit more bitter than I usually see in an ESB. Good

The “Indian Summer” Pale Ale is a completely crushable pale ale, really nice fruity taste and smell, light refreshing tasting and only 4.2 percent. Awesome for a summer session beer.