[Closed] Craft Beer club

I'm a member of beerbods, have been for more than 2 years. I really enjoy it.

Beerbods. Simple choice.

Beerbods is the one I'd join if I was looking for one.

Looks much better than the others. Cheers for this, will most definitely be looking to join this one.

Yup Beerbods.

I have probably got a discount code for beerbods if you want. I think it gets you 1 week off.

Try ZFXQWT when you sign up.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home? We have so many craft brewers here in Lancs that I'd rather just ride to a pub with a pal or two.

Another vote for Beerbods here. Halfway through my third box and enjoying trying a different beer each Thursday.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home?

Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home? We have so many craft brewers here in Lancs that I'd rather just ride to a pub with a pal or two.

And when you can't do that?

Another vote for Beerbods. I've been a subscriber since 'the early days' and they're superb.

They're even getting my girlfriend keen to try any new beers!

+1 more for Beerbods - you couldn't wish for better service or friendlier folks!

I do wonder though where this hipster 'craft beer' movement will end up - there are so many folks brewing now, how sustainable will it be? Is there real skill involved anymore? Will it end up like the gazillion 'artisanal' coffee suppliers, many of whom seem to do no more than re-packaging/marketing?

Even the big boys are brewing small batch beers now to 'catch the wave' 🙂

I'll enjoy it whilst it lasts though!

It'll be many years before I get bored with the range offered in the local Booths - and for substantially less than £3 a bottle too 🙂

£3 a bottle!
Craft beer is definitely jumping the shark right now

brew it yourself, much easier than you think. I do find it quite easy to go through 40 pints all too quickly though :cry:[img] [/img]

I have a home brew shop 2 minutes from my house. I have had varying degrees of success with the kits. Although I did make a nettle beer last year which was very tasty! for about 20 pints, it cost me £4. Bargain.

Theres something about the term "craft beer" that makes my teeth itch....
Don't get me wrong, I like it lots, its the hipsterification that gets on my wick. Oh and there are other beer varieties other than IPAs, but thats something else.

Oh and there are other beer varieties other than IPAs, but thats something else.

Yup. Luckily microbreweries know this too.

£3 a bottle dream on!

For anybody after a bit of reading to go with there drinking I read this book by a guy who toured Scotland's small breweries a couple of years ago:

[url] http://www.amazon.co.k/Leaf-Paradox-Discovering-Beer-Whisky-ebook/dp/B00DP8S2JU [/url]

Brew your own, all grain of course. Kits are OK, I have done about 5 but although drinkable, most still have a HB twang.

Great fun and loads of info out there.

Craft beer 😥 Whatever happened to nice decent beer, rather than all this mostly minging pish. Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again, but oh no, now with a bit of marketing they can sell you something minging at a premium price. 👿

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.

WTF? I mean really.... [b]WTF?[/b] What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

I do wonder though where this hipster 'craft beer' movement will end up - there are so many folks brewing now, how sustainable will it be? Is there real skill involved anymore? Will it end up like the gazillion 'artisanal' coffee suppliers, many of whom seem to do no more than re-packaging/marketing?

Ah, where to begin with this 🙂

What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

I know. Next people will be discussing such things on a forum on the internet.

WTF? What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

Ohhh the ironing! 🙂

globalti - Member
Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.
WTF? I mean really.... WTF? What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

Kinda awkward when my friends live in different countries, and work different hours. Either way, we all enjoy our things differently. Maybe I don't like sitting in a pub listening to other people talk shite? Maybe I'd rather sit, with my wife and enjoy a beer on a Thursday before I go to bed.

Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again

Surely this takes away the best bit about buying beer which is standing in front of an enormous wall of bottles and trying to pretend that you know enough to pick on anything other than which label you like the most?

could say that about wine

Or bikes.

bikes have a bit more tactility about them, I don't usually ride wine but the beer tries to every now and again

could say that about wine

The process is very similar but the character I try to present to any other customers or staff who may glance my way is very different. With wine I try to appear aloof and discerning - slide my glasses down my nose, jut out the top teeth and read bottles at arms length. With beer I try to give the impression that once I've appraised the selection my choices will be obvious. More of a manly impulsiveness.

It's hard work when I have to buy both from the same shop.

Craft beer Whatever happened to nice decent beer, rather than all this mostly minging pish. Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again, but oh no, now with a bit of marketing they can sell you something minging at a premium price.

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

Enjoy your Tetley's Smoothflow grandad.

I’ve begun to wonder whether anything could pop this bubble, and what I think about is the force that held back middle-class beer snobbery to begin with: the fixed prejudice against real ale. No matter how many demographic surveys Cask Marque produced, no matter how many Sumerian wheat goddesses Camra dug up for its marketing, for most people real ale still meant nerdy old men with beards. Craft beer, by contrast, means nerdy young men with beards. And while nerds have a great deal more cultural capital than they used to, young men continue to grow old. Within a few years, the craft beer boom may seem as difficult to separate from the ridiculous fashions of the 2010s as the real ale boom was from the fashions of the 1970s. If we’re lucky, it will leave as many enjoyable new flavours behind.

This is what worries me, once the hipsters have moved on to Nepalese tea beer made with Himalayan wild yeast and quadruple-fermented with white mountain goats phlegm, where does it leaving the craft / micro-brewing industry?

Obviously it will continue, but i suspect when demand lessens there will be casualties.

not so long back you would struggle to find real ale in pubs because the brewers, the big ones at least, saw to much hassle and cost in supplying what the punter wanted. then the government saw sense and stepped in, gave a tax relief on small brewers and hey presto..where we are today - no more stale lager but finally real ale even in the big pub chains. it's not always perfect but it's better than fruit based drink for the ladies.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird.

I have a home brew shop 2 minutes from my house. I have had varying degrees of success with the kits.

yeah, that can happen. some kits are better than others. None of them are a patch on brewing your own beer from scratch (IMO)

in terms of equipment, it's a one-off spend of about £200 for a boiler, a chiller (optional but very handy), a mesh bag and a fermenter or two. After that you're only paying for your ingredients. a typical 40 pint 4% batch of traditional bitter will cost about a tenner in grains & hops, and a couple of quid for a sachet of yeast. And it's not difficult to do; time consuming, yes, difficult, no.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird.

Exactly. No longer is the choice of beer 3 or 4 taps of fizzy shite lager, Guiness and maybe something resembling an ale if you're lucky. Forget the image of who drinks what and focus on the important bit - the beer.

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

If I buy three bottles for a fiver from Morrisons, that's £1.67 a bottle. If I then packaged and posted it to myself it would add to that price. And I'd still only have a bottle of a beer that I'd probably had before.

Or I could call into a pub on my way home from work, and pay more than £3 for a pint.

So, £3 a bottle starts to seem better value once you add in transport costs and the discovery of new beers and breweries?

I have just signed up; so looking forward to all those tasty beers.

And here is a code I have just received, so if anyone else decides to sign up; GVSDZN

We're feeling the love here at [url= https://beerbods.co.uk/ ]BeerBods[/url]. Thanks!

gordon
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evilgordon - good luck with your site.

However, although I love my beer, brew all grain, drink everything from cooking lager, Belgian 9% stuff, "proper" ales and American IPA's. There is just too much guff on that site, I mean -

It’s the kind of beer that you’d interrupt a good dog walk for on a Spring day. It’s not particularly challenging, but there is a time and place for everything, especially a well made English pale bitter.

Really? It's like a cross between Alan Partridge and Innocent smoothies.

Or I could call into a pub on my way home from work, and pay more than £3 for a pint.

Therein lies the rub, we've got regional differences. Three quid for a bottle is ~60p [i]more[/i] than I'd expect to pay for a pint at a local. Which shifts the question to be one of "is this service worth paying a premium for?" It's a bit different if you're used to paying London bar prices, the bottle delivery is positively bargainous in comparison then.

All of our subscribers drink the same beer (just one) every week.

How do you know this? I like the idea of the club, but I know I'll get back in from a ride and just grab a bottle or two. 🙂

Enjoy your Tetley's Smoothflow grandad.

Get to ****. I'll stick with Landlord, Brains, Cairngorm, Spitfire etc. 🙂

Therein lies the rub, we've got regional differences. Three quid for a bottle is ~60p more than I'd expect to pay for a pint at a local.

I drink in Darlington, so it's not exactly Kent prices 🙂

I paid £1.90 for a pint of Strongarm the other Saturday, but it was in The Scary Pub By The Station ([url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4833530.Eighties_band_saves_DJ_from_fracas_in_pub/ ]made famous by Scott Mills[/url]) and, you know, it was Strongarm. The [url= http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-tanners-hall ]town centre Wetherspoons[/url] is also about £2 a pint, but [url= http://www.villagebrewer.co.uk/our-pubs/number-twenty-2/ ]independent pubs in the centre[/url] are more than £3 a pint.

Get to ****. I'll stick with Landlord, Brains, Cairngorm, Spitfire etc.

Landlord was about £14 for four pints in York the other weekend, so £3.50 a pint...

I had a pint of Devils Backbone IPA for £3 and a Bath Gem for £2.50 in Wetherspoons in Tonbridge, KENT.

So it all depends where you drink.

and, you know, it was Strongarm.

Cameron's? That was the very beer which converted me from a lager drinker.

I was working away (in Dudley I think) and succumbed to peer pressure as I was the only one of the group not drinking 'proper' beer. I have very fond memories of Cameron's Strongarm, but never found it since to see whether the (beer) glasses are rose-tinted.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird

this^
i like a well made traditional ‘brown’ pint of bitter, i’ll also have a southern hemisphere hopped citrussy pale ale or an american interpretation of a Belgian saison. more choice is good and life is too short for crap beer when theres the Kernel india export porter and beavertown neck oil session IPA in the fridge.
both are unconventionally packaged which probably grates with the shepard neame/youngs drinker but thats just a bonus 😉 flavour is everything.

Oooh! That reminds me I found a couple bottles of Anarchy beers I'd forgotten about his afternoon.

I'm in...

NVDHTK code for someone else to get a free week

i couldn't stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

i couldn't stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

If it was a crate of twelve a week, I might be in for it. 🙂

I can only imagine the twitter feed...

i couldn't stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

Don't think this is mandatory RD :lol:, I would just like introducing to some new beers, I'll drink them when I fancy it.

i couldn't stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc.

They don't make you sign an exclusivity contract, so it's possible to buy beer elsewhere to drink on the other six nights of the week.

I stick with the Thursday because I teach an evening class that night and it's a nice way to round off a 13 hour day at work.

beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

Don't think this is mandatory RD :lol:, I would just like introducing to some new beers, I'll drink them when I fancy it.

no, i know, but thats the point of beerbods isn't it, you all taste it together and compare notes etc?

You could drink them and keep notes on another night, shhhh! EvilGordon is listening.

If people want to pay £3 a bottle for beer to come in the post then good luck to them.

You can pay that much for a cup of mucky hot water in many coffee shops.

I prefer to stock up at the supermarket for a quid or 1.50 a bottle and I drink tea personally.

its the hipsterification that gets on my wick

Ignore it - who gives a F what others think?

I've been drinking beer since I was 14 & I'm damned if 3 decades later I'm going to be put off drinking ale just because its become KOOL...

Minor hijack, but probably quite relevant...does anyone know of somewhere I can buy some Stone Brewing Co. [url= http://www.arrogantbastard.com/doublebastard/default.asp ]Double Bastard?[/url]

Dunno, but I'm sold on their entire product line.

Mind you, I made that mistake with Brewdog.

I've been drinking beer since I was 14 & I'm damned if 3 decades later I'm going to be put off drinking ale just because its become KOOL

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Shut up & get your round in Drac you young whippet!

80 /- Yeah?

Hmmmmmm.
Too much insider info for me to make a constructive comment.
As long as its great beer its OK , but its alot more than I would ever spend on bottled beers.

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Sorry the club doesn't sell that. They have John Smiths that's like a southern beer.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird.

Spot on.

Drac - Moderator
80 /- Yeah?

You're only allowed to order it if you can pronounce it.

(And you only [i]should [/i]be ordering it if it's Caledonian rather than McEwans).

Now I want a beer and I've got red wine instead.

Minor hijack, but probably quite relevant...does anyone know of somewhere I can buy some Stone Brewing Co. Double Bastard?

They had some in Bottledog on Grays Inn Road yesterday I think, they had some Stone beers there for sure, plus I definitely picked up a bottle at Christmas.

Have you tried it? It's rank. And that's from someone who likes strong IPAs.

Sixpoint Brewery Bengali Tiger.
Wetherspoons £2 a can (I know craft ale in a can!) Bloody wonderful stuff.

Struggling with commercial bottled beers at the mo they all taste a bit bland. Are they pasteurised? That must kill some of the flavour.

Also me and my mates are making our own beer nowadays, making some real 'hop bombs' between us.

Next time you're in the Surrey Hills and you have to pop into Dorking for bike parts why don't you cross the road to Cobbetts Real Ale Shop and Micropub. Reasonably priced and excellent beer in Surrey!

Drac - Moderator

Sorry the club doesn't sell that. They have John Smiths that's like a southern beer.

Oh and its 80 shilling. Belhaven or Broughton please!