Beer Thread

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

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Angry Man is nice, if a bit overrated for mine. As are so many Aussie pales

Got some Balmain Pilsener tonight, perfect arvo for it.

Not a fan at all of the Angry Man, tastes like dirty dish water.

Balmain Pilsener isn't too bad, the Bock is their best but is only available on tap.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Birra Moretti - great beer for this weather.

 

[Bazal]

Love that stuff...and Menabrea

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Burleigh Brewing "A Bit on the Side Dept" FIGJAM IPA. Burleigh for me do hit + miss beers, and this is a miss. Very big gin smell, and has an almost soapy aftertaste. Pity, I was hopeful this would be another cracker from their limited release range like their Giraffe Stout.

 

[Bazal]

Got three close to code six packs from work for nought...Amstel, Little Creatures Pilsener, and Urquell. On the Amstel as I figured it'd be the worst of them...it is. Glad I didn't pay for it. It tastes like Carlton Dry or Hahn Super, which would be fine, but it's about $18 a 6 pack full cop

 

[Noa]

Had a couple of bottles of the sierra Nevada northern harvest, didn't like it as much as the southern, still a good drop though.

Got myself a 3 pack of St feuillian . Blonde and triple are 2 class drops didn't think too much of the bruin which odd for me as I'm a big fan of Belgian brown's in general.

 

[Joker's Wild]

Lil Creatures, Fat Yak and 150 lashes in the fridge for tonight.

Pale overload

 

[Red Bear]

Did they stop making Hahn Premium for a period of time after Superdry got popular?

We seemed to have started stocking it at working, drinking one at present. Pretty inoffensive but nothing great.

 

[Misanthrope]

If you're ever in Shanghai, do not drink at Boxing Cat Brewery. It's admirable them trying to do microbrew in China, but not a fan of a one of their beers. Underwhelming in the extreme.

 

[Red Bear]

New SCG stand has a microbrewery inside!

 

[Misanthrope]

No way. What brewery?

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

If you're ever in Shanghai, do not drink at Boxing Cat Brewery. It's admirable them trying to do microbrew in China, but not a fan of a one of their beers. Underwhelming in the extreme.

The Bund Brewery was actually pretty good. They only did 3 beers (dark, pilsner, + lager), and the dark was the pick.

Then again, I was drinking bucketloads of cheap Chinese beers for a week before I got there, so it may not be as good as I remember since I'm compsring it to garbage.

 

[Misanthrope]

I've heard good things about Shanghai Brewery, but I've yet to check them out. I was drinking a lot of Tiger and Tsing Tao earlier in the year, but that's tapered right off with my girlfriend here.

 

[Bazal]

We;ve released a new exclusive range...Steamrail Ale. There is a Pale, a Golden and an Amber. I have a sneaking suspicion they may be Malt Shovel by way of Lion Nathan, who do our other exclusives. Trying the pale now, I expected garbage but it's not half bad at $45-50 a case. Floral, some hops, nicely bitter and a bit spicy. Slightly short and not as flavoursome as a lot of pale ales out there, but shit, for a few bob more than pisswater like Carlton or Tooheys it's far from a bad beer.

 

[Misanthrope]

f**k, I miss good beer. It's all Tiger and Tsing Tao here unless you trek to a fancier bar in Shanghai or 1912.

 

[Bazal]

See, I miss Malaysia! I miss 30c Tigers and other locasl...and the food, good god...

Then again (and I do say this without ever having been) I do think Malaysia is probably a much nicer place than China

 

[Misanthrope]

I'm almost certain of it. Very jealous that my girlfriend is heading there for two weeks while I'm stuck here in the cold.

Thailand in 15 days though!

 

[Bazal]

Thailand is good fun. Personally I got bored very quickly, but the food is top notch and the beers are very well suited to the heat (and I mean both of the food and the climate ).

My advice would be to be careful what you eat and avoid ice in drinks (which means more beer, what a shame!)...whereas in Malaysia I always ate where the locals ate and avoided the tourists totally, in Thailand I looked for a decent mix of both. Often the local fare is just face meltingly hot, more than anything. Depends where you're going though

 

[Misanthrope]

I've had plenty of practice avoiding ice cubes here in China :lol: I'll keep it in mind come Thailand. I'm looking forward to some beach time and then some time doing more cultural stuff up north. Should be aces.

 

[Twizzle]

face meltingly hot is good

I loved the hot spicy food in Thailand, spice was good stuff but their ingredients like chicken and pork we pretty rank, they never trim the fat or skin off