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  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    Here’s a new one, Earth Eagle Brethren Code. A white stout with coconut, coffee beans and cocoa nibs aged on rum soaked oak chips. Small brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Currently home to members of the Royal Navy on their last night before a tour. It’s a bit lively. 

    The beer isn’t bad - 8.6% so a sipper. Can’t taste coconut or rum, can taste coffee and cocoa. 

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Sounds absolutely horrific. But at least it looks a bit better than your usual.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    Off_it said:
    Sounds absolutely horrific. But at least it looks a bit better than your usual.
    Southampton is Old Hampshire?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783

    Lighthouse at Cascais and a pleasant local beer. 
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,305
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    The caipirinhas here are nice, after 3 or 4 you have a good night's sleep!
    Out of interest what are the prices like for booze in Brazil?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    edited June 2023
    CheshireAddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    The caipirinhas here are nice, after 3 or 4 you have a good night's sleep!
    Out of interest what are the prices like for booze in Brazil?

    For 600ml bottles like this, around £1.50 that includes the Brazilian stuff.  
    On the rare occasion you find an IPA they are about £2.
    The Green one averages out at £3.
    The stuff out here is not fantastic.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    SomervilleAddick said:
    Can’t taste coconut or rum, can taste coffee and cocoa. 

    Perhaps you should try a coffee shop rather than a pub.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    edited June 2023

    I suppose I blend in well over here  :disappointed:
    £6 a bottle is reasonable, any takers please PM me and I'll bring next time I'm over :)
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    I found in Brazil they almost dared you to stop them pouring spirits into their cocktails. Got good value. The beers I liked were brahma, Antarctica and Kaiser... Gnats piss but v. refreshing when cold on a hot day
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    McBobbin said:
    I found in Brazil they almost dared you to stop them pouring spirits into their cocktails. Got good value. The beers I liked were brahma, Antarctica and Kaiser... Gnats piss but v. refreshing when cold on a hot day
    Antarctica is alright, they are massive on Heineken over here.
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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032

    @McBobbin you should be here, watching the City game and for 3 1/2 hours you can literally help yourself to unlimited Bramah for £20
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,305
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    CheshireAddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    The caipirinhas here are nice, after 3 or 4 you have a good night's sleep!
    Out of interest what are the prices like for booze in Brazil?

    For 600ml bottles like this, around £1.50 that includes the Brazilian stuff.  
    On the rare occasion you find an IPA they are about £2.
    The Green one averages out at £3.
    The stuff out here is not fantastic.
    Cheers mate. That's good 👍
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    @McBobbin you should be here, watching the City game and for 3 1/2 hours you can literally help yourself to unlimited Bramah for £20
    Nice! I'd love to go back
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    Beautiful sunny day at Tree House Brewing in Charlton, Massachusetts. These guys are right up there with Trillium. This is the Emperor Julius Guava, 8.8% Imperial IPA. Very guava aroma, but very subtle taste. Very drinkable. 

  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    SomervilleAddick said:
    Beautiful sunny day at Tree House Brewing in Charlton, Massachusetts. These guys are right up there with Trillium. This is the Emperor Julius Guava, 8.8% Imperial IPA. Very guava aroma, but very subtle taste. Very drinkable. 

    When I first went to New York in '94 we stuck to bottles of Rolling Rock, glad to see things have improved since then.
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    SomervilleAddick said:
    Beautiful sunny day at Tree House Brewing in Charlton, Massachusetts. These guys are right up there with Trillium. This is the Emperor Julius Guava, 8.8% Imperial IPA. Very guava aroma, but very subtle taste. Very drinkable. 

    When I first went to New York in '94 we stuck to bottles of Rolling Rock, glad to see things have improved since then.
    New York is still a bit of an adventure. There are plenty of bars that sell decent beer, but there are even more that don’t 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    SomervilleAddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    SomervilleAddick said:
    Beautiful sunny day at Tree House Brewing in Charlton, Massachusetts. These guys are right up there with Trillium. This is the Emperor Julius Guava, 8.8% Imperial IPA. Very guava aroma, but very subtle taste. Very drinkable. 

    When I first went to New York in '94 we stuck to bottles of Rolling Rock, glad to see things have improved since then.
    New York is still a bit of an adventure. There are plenty of bars that sell decent beer, but there are even more that don’t 
    One of my top three cities in the world.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032

    My local shop does this, got a taste for it out in Germany for the Euros in '88.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    For a lager, those brown Effes bottles take some beating, along with similar Red Stripe ones
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022

    A rare one from me, zero alcohol beer. Estrella Levante 0 0. Pretty good actually. 
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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    se9addick said:
    Popped into the excellent Brick Brewery taproom last night,

    This IPA (“Hop”) was nice


    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2023/06/14/peckham-micropub-with-deptford-brewery-enters-administration/
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    clive said:
    se9addick said:
    Popped into the excellent Brick Brewery taproom last night,

    This IPA (“Hop”) was nice


    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2023/06/14/peckham-micropub-with-deptford-brewery-enters-administration/
    As so often with Murky Depths, it's not the full story - Brick's been sold on as a pre-pack administration. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032

    An old favourite of mine before I discovered an IPA.
    This is as popular over here as Guiness in Dublin.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022

    It seems a bit weird drinking a beer named after a Muslim Palace but I'm happy to go with it.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    If we're talking Spanish, this one was interesting. Quite heavy and a bit too hoppy for an IPA for me but made a change from the lager on a hot day.


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Had a dark beer at lunchtime from the Victoria Brewery in Malaga. Very nice.

    Big Saturday night for me, had a litre bottle of beer for 95 cents out of Lidl. It tasted alright and was 5%. How come us Brits get ripped of so much on the price of booze?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    Off topic, drinking in Belgium has to be VERY reasonably priced.
    Drinking in Brussels coming back from the 4-0 defeat in St Truiden 40cl was around £3.
    I reckon £25 will leave you in a bad way, you have to drink over there with respect.
  • cafcbrown
    cafcbrown Posts: 556
    Havent seen unfiltered Staropramen before. This is very nice and actually brewed in 🇨🇿  i believe 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,032
    cafcbrown said:
    Havent seen unfiltered Staropramen before. This is very nice and actually brewed in 🇨🇿  i believe 
    Nice glass as well.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677
    Drinkflation.

    Apologies if posted before, but I note breweries are now reducing alcohol content in a bid to reduce tax.  

    Drinks will be taxed by alcoholic strength from 1 August when a new alcohol duty regime comes into effect.  

    Under the new tax system, producers will save between 2p and 3p per bottle or can.  Brands which have allegedly already reduced alcohol content include Spitfire, Old Speckled Hen, Foster's and Bishops Finger.

    Work from the alcohol research group at the University of Sheffield said that if breweries reduced alcohol percentages by just 0.35 they could save an estimated £250m on tax.

    https://news.sky.com/story/drinkflation-beer-makers-reduce-alcohol-content-to-pay-less-tax-12905447

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