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Brewdog’s Black Heart is good
I can confirm. I think I'll pick up another 4 pack on the way home 🙂
Was in a farm shop with my parents this morning and remembered I'm not needing to drive tonight and have no plans for the morning....
Friday is the traditional (for me at least) trip to the supermarket for food and (as it is close by) Systembolaget. I'll be cruising the temporary selection for something stouty for tonight and tomorrow I think.
A productive visit to Buxton to do their Snow Dog trail
I got given a stout last night by my ex's sister's partner. It's apparently ready, but has been maturing since June. I also got a porter from a bloke at work that needs a couple more weeks to round off, both of these were swapsies for the cider I made a month or so ago.
I also splashed out on a Christmas stout for me: 330ml at nearly 200kr for a brandy barrel aged treat to me. Pictures and tasting notes in a couple of months I guess
Quite enjoyed this last week which is available in your local Greene King chain pub currently.
https://nethergate.co.uk/shop/blood-hound/
Got some of Co-ops own stout to try tonight, fingers crossed as I've found there buyers often pick some pretty good products to sell as their own brand for good prices.
That Crescent Moon was an absolute belter!
Not sure when I'll try the gooseberry sour. Seemed a good idea at the time I bought it...
Had a pint of this tonight.
https://www.stewartbrewing.co.uk/products/edinburgh-black
I went back to the Guinness after, but it was nice having a local alternative.
So I now have three Scottish brewed alternatives at the pump these days, Belhaven Black, Edinburgh Black or Brewdog Black Heart.
Happy days.
Ooh...despite the name I don't think I've ever seen that outside Tassie. Up there with Cooper's
Had a few pints of this the other day, was lovely
Pub in town has this on tap at the moment, and it’s very tasty indeed. Pub’s owner is actually a brewery in Hullavington, called Flying Monk, after a monk in Malmesbury who made wings and jumped off the tower of Malmesbury Abbey!
Last night's was OK, nice and spicy, but missed the mark for some reason. 
After today's weather, this gift has been broken out ahead of sausage and mash....
I'm slightly disappointed again - perfectly pleasant but somehow missing a depth of flavour.
After a quick hill ride in the rain .. .. hits the mark
Sensibly priced in Morrisons this morning.
I just had this: https://www.systembolaget.se/produkt/ol/destihl-brewery-1320215/
It's not bad. Sorry, it was not bad.
I also had a Norwegian strong, dark ale. it was ok. Not really sure I would have another one.
My local brewery does amazing stouts. Moersleutel in Alkmaar. Motorolie and Bounty Hunter are probably my favourites.
Some great stouts on at the local brewery ATM.
Red Eye is particularly good and not a blow your face off strong beer at 7.4 unlike some of the other 11.4 offerings.
As nice as they are you can't drink many of the 11 %ers.
Grabbed a lonely bottle of the Coffee Stout from Aldi yesterday.
MrsMC says I'm not allowed to only bring one bottle home in future
Coffee Stout from Aldi
I might need to swing by ours later today
@singlespeedstu Nice! Did you see any of their BA Brown Ale, "All the leaves are brown"? I had a can leftover from last winter on Friday and remembered how nice it is.
There's actually two versions of All The Leaves now.
https://www.tempestbrewco.com/
Both very nice but I prefer the imperial maple version.
There's also a new imperial stout but I've not tried it yet.
They did give us a can to take home and sample though.
Knowing the owners of Tempest does bring some benefits 😀
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54161264661/in/dateposted/
Oh, nice, will have to try and find some of that too. Couldn't see any Tempest in my local bottle shop, which has a massive range but changed hands recently.
Mythical Ground has promise too.
No photos but recent selection includes
Gunn Parabellum - milk stout. Never seen their stuff outside of when I visit family near their taproom but definitely worth a try.
Sirens Caribbean Chocolate Cake selection. Did like their white stout with its confusing it aint dark. The Death By C.C.C. was good but had that evil it doesnt taste how strong it is.
Couple of Fierce stouts. Wasp collaboration and the Expresso Martini but neither were overly inspiring.
Do Siren still do Broken Dream? That stuff was amazing.
Do Siren still do Broken Dream? That stuff was amazing.
Yup its one of their core range.
I do always wonder how literal the term "breakfast stout" is meant to be taken. Since I couldnt face one until past lunch unless I hadnt stopped drinking and I am way to old for that now.
Just had a lovely pint of Thornbridge Cocoa Wonderland Porter. 6.8%. Very nice.
Really wanted to get drunk enough tonight to make the pain go away, but chose a couple of stouts that really filled me up.
Amundsen (Norwegien) and a pastry stout with a bunch of things, including cinnamon, which I really did not taste and, after that, a barrel aged coconut and coffee stout from Pinta barrel Brewing.
Again, I did not get much of the coconut and the coffee was a subtle note rather than some of the ones that I have had from, for example, Knivsta Bryggeriet. They are front and centre with the coffee and it's a solid presence. Same with the Arabian Nights stout from Uppsala Brygghus.
Overall, slightly disappointed with Amundsen (they make a cracking NEIPA) and the same with Pinta. I really shoul.d try my mate's version. His own-brewed is usually pretty good.
Just had a lovely pint of Thornbridge Cocoa Wonderland Porter. 6.8%. Very nice.
Yes indeed.
This is on at the local and I'm off work tomorrow so may need to try it out.
Mm... Yum
Quite partial to Cooper's yellow. 6.4% aussie stout.
Tried the Necessary Evil a while back. It's almost too much of a good thing, but I'd be willing to.try it again
Had a couple of pints on Newbarns' cask stout, called, er, Stout, last night. I'm more of a big thick heavy stout drinker, but really enjoyed this nice 4.5%er. Nice liquorice thing going on.
Been enjoying a few pints of this the last few days whilst staying down in the south west for a bit of a break. Very nice.
Mmm, this is nice.
Loch Lomond do a few good beers, from what I can recall from when we stayed up there last year!
My regular drinking establishment has a brewery about half a mile down the road, Milk Town Brewery, named from the old Unigate milk processing building it’s set up in. They’re doing a really rather wonderful stout at the moment called ‘Burning Rubber’ it’s very dark, and gets its name from the fact that the former Avon Tyres factory is just the other side of the road/river, in Melksham.
https://milktown.co.uk/welcome/
Not sure it's technically a stout but it's certainly a cracking dark beer - finally trying Tynt Meadow, brewed by real monks at a real monastery not too far south of here, and I'm suddenly very much in favour of religion. Though at 7% there may be some praying of a different kind if you have too many.
https://www.msbtrappist.co.uk/
Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Winter Porter last night , lush !
Their Chocolate Orange Stout tonight, disgusting tasted like cough medicine poured it down the drain!
tasted like cough medicine poured it down the drain!
Sadly also describes the Rocky Road/marshmallow stout from Brew Dog experience this evening.
I know it's unfashionable to say so but a number of their beers are quite acceptable and they make a couple of quite drinkable low alcohol options for the non-artisan occasional drinker. This was sadly neither.
As a fan of both Rocky Road and of stout I can safely say I am not a fan of them together.
Will need to keep an eye out for the winter stout. Annoying I went there earlier.
On the chocolate orange front. Had Siren crafts Chocolate Orange Tiramisu tonight. Definitely smell of it but drinking more normal stout. Its also a white stout for confusing people out. Recommend.
Last week had some of brew yorks offerings at their taproom.
Nightmare of Brew York 2024 was good as was the Krampus.
Although that said had previously had the nightmare in a can and it didnt quite hit the spot so might be one of those hipster moments of saying best to go to source.
I came on here to recommend the Sainsbury’s chocolate Orange stout, I had it last night and will be buying more.
Can’t recommend this one highly enough. Simply superb.
https://thefreshstandard.co.uk/product/2024-export-porter-8-330ml/
Currently on drought at the taproom also.
@Houns it's a good job we don't all like the same thing life would be pretty boring. IMHO it's the same as what some " ciders " have become any cider not made with apples a modern abomination!
There's a local one I had in a local pub last week. Silent Night made in Somerton Somerset unfortunately only available in a beer box with a short life span.
In the Old Bridge Inn (Aviemore) last night and they had Dark Ness from Loch Ness brewery, promising a rich and creamy stout. It really was - a good sweetness, and definitely creamy.
The Torygraph have finally caught up with us:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/beer/telegraph-readers-best-british-stouts/
Temperature has dipped below 28 this evening so definitely stout time. And what a whopper.
Actually I'm finishing on the stout 😉
I wondered who’d started on the stout at 9.30 on a Saturday morning
Isnt that what "breakfast stouts" are for?
A 11% would be breakfast and nightcap though for me.
Still drinking the Burning Rubber in the pub, the nice thing is the bloke who’s brewery produces it drinks there as well, and will usually come and have a chat about what they’re up to - not often that opportunity presents itself. Good thing their brews are rather excellent!
Loch Lomond Oat Stout ?
Something a little more suited to Sunday tonight
It's the season here right now anyway...Just started a 19l keg of Imperial Stout. Approx 8%.
