What Are You Drinking ?

[Chicken Wing]

In the process of moving from East Lancs to Greater Manchester I thought it might be prudent to acquire a taste for this stuff - sometimes described as "The Cream of Manchester"
Not quite there yet, but I'm prepared to persevere with it.

Melanie likes it!

[Bold Rover]

42 minutes ago, MONKMAN said:

Just finished



Just about to open

You'll be getting a row from @Ludo*1

[Big Chief Toffee Teeth]

To drink any of the 5 litre mini casks, from any brewery, three days is about it. Just like larger casks, the more space you leave in the cask, the less effective the build up of CO2 becomes.

A couple of hours after delivery / pickup is all they need to settle. It's not lager, so you don't want it overly chilled, and a cool place, in the kitchen, for example, will do fine - I'm lucky to have a cellar, which is ideal. You could chill it in the fridge before opening, I suppose, but I have picked up casks from Fyne Ales and taken them in the camper in July to Scottish islands, left them on the lea side of the van and they have poured and tasted great.

Fyne Ales delivery costs £2:50 per cask, taking it to about £2.20 per pint of live ale, which I think worth it. It's exactly the same as from a pub font - although the obvious other things are missing - so, as someone who far prefers live beer, I think it's worth the extra 40p or so per pint over bottles.

You can also get mini casks of decent - if generic and big brewery - ale from supermarkets for £15 or so, and they are pretty good. Adams Ghost Ship and Sharps Atlantic are two decent examples.

I like to support the smaller Scottish brewers, though, and Stewarts in Edinburgh is also doing good minis. All the breweries are struggling, however, to get enough mini casks to meet demand just now.

Try them. If your preference is live beer, it's well worth it.

 

That's a lot of mini-casks! I didn't know they did them. I drive past them for family weekends away quite regularly (when we're not in lockdown obviously) and one of those looks very tempting. Do you need to keep it in the fridge to keep it cool? We would have to take our weekend's food out!

 

[Eednud]

More a RTBC as now allowed to sit indoors. Even better pubs can reopen from Monday.

[Newbornbairn]

18 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

No idea about this one. From Lidl, anyone tried it?

 

Quite good. Smooth, very full flavour and no sore head

[Bold Rover]

19 hours ago, NewBornBairn said:

No idea about this one. From Lidl, anyone tried it?

 

Nice patio furniture. State of the grass, though.

[Newbornbairn]

29 minutes ago, Bold Rover said:

Nice patio furniture. State of the grass, though.

Aye, it's as much weeds as grass. No topsoil, just building rubble a couple of inches below the surface. 

[Archie McSquackle]

To drink any of the 5 litre mini casks, from any brewery, three days is about it. Just like larger casks, the more space you leave in the cask, the less effective the build up of CO2 becomes.
A couple of hours after delivery / pickup is all they need to settle. It's not lager, so you don't want it overly chilled, and a cool place, in the kitchen, for example, will do fine - I'm lucky to have a cellar, which is ideal. You could chill it in the fridge before opening, I suppose, but I have picked up casks from Fyne Ales and taken them in the camper in July to Scottish islands, left them on the lea side of the van and they have poured and tasted great.
Fyne Ales delivery costs £2:50 per cask, taking it to about £2.20 per pint of live ale, which I think worth it. It's exactly the same as from a pub font - although the obvious other things are missing - so, as someone who far prefers live beer, I think it's worth the extra 40p or so per pint over bottles.
You can also get mini casks of decent - if generic and big brewery - ale from supermarkets for £15 or so, and they are pretty good. Adams Ghost Ship and Sharps Atlantic are two decent examples.
I like to support the smaller Scottish brewers, though, and Stewarts in Edinburgh is also doing good minis. All the breweries are struggling, however, to get enough mini casks to meet demand just now.
Try them. If your preference is live beer, it's well worth it.
 

 

Thanks for the response. I'm sure I could manage with 3 days! It looks as though their availability is limited at the moment so I'll hold off just now until there's more choice, seeing as it's £5 delivery for 2 casks.
I've seen the two you mentioned in Tesco but will need to try single bottles before going for a cask.

[The_Kincardine]

18 hours ago, NJ2 said:

It’s been very warm, have a nice cold drink and grab a wee treat out the freezer...

Cheeky bassa.  That's you off the Xmas card list.

[tongue_tied_danny]

On 23/05/2020 at 18:32, Ylf said:

love this. get in marks and spencer’s £2 can. very good imo

I got a few cans of Meantime Pale Ale from McColl's earlier for £1.50 a pop.

Not bad...

[lichtie23]

Birra Moretti

[Distant Doonhamer]

Birra Moretti

I don’t drink a lot of beer but I do like Moretti.

[Distant Doonhamer]

Back to an old favourite tonight.

[DA Baracus]

On 28/05/2020 at 20:14, Sergeant Wilson said:

It's fucking rotten as are all the similar beers. Worthingtons, John Smith etc.

They are all stinking. Add Tetleys to the list.

I always thought it was flat cap and whippet types who drank it, often to wash down a hot pot.

[taurus]

Tonight's choice ,

[taurus]

This might be a better picture

Tonight's choice ,

[taurus]

Is it fck

This might be a better picture

[Distant Doonhamer]

Tonight's choice ,

I like the look of that Malbec

[Bairnardo]

Tennents Lager.

Havent had one for fucking weeks. Have been on a wee bit of a beer journey trying all different styles etc. Any fears that Tennents would be somehow tainted on my return have been put to rest.

f**k me that hit the spot. [emoji7] T

[Turkmenbashi]

1 hour ago, Bairnardo said:

Tennents Lager.

Havent had one for fucking weeks. Have been on a wee bit of a beer journey trying all different styles etc. Any fears that Tennents would be somehow tainted on my return have been put to rest.

f**k me that hit the spot. T

For all the great beer Belgium has, I still miss a pint of Tennents

Anyway for tonight, not had this one before I don't think