Beer thread
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@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
I’d never go as far as to say a craft brewery wasn’t good, law of average would dictate they do at least something that is enjoyable, perhaps “less memorable” is a better description ?
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@mn5 said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
I’d never go as far as to say a craft brewery wasn’t good, law of average would dictate they do at least something that is enjoyable, perhaps “less memorable” is a better description ?
The Pilsner is O.K.
The whole outfit has been a cluster fuck over recent years though. From the "separation" to the fire. Real mess.
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@snowy said in Beer thread:
@mn5 said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
I’d never go as far as to say a craft brewery wasn’t good, law of average would dictate they do at least something that is enjoyable, perhaps “less memorable” is a better description ?
The Pilsner is O.K.
The whole outfit has been a cluster fuck over recent years though. From the "separation" to the fire. Real mess.
Yeah not one I’d go out of my way to choose at a Supermarket that’s for sure.
Garage Project, Lakeman, Panhead, Shining Peak, McLeods, Mikes, Parrot Dog, Boneface, Keruru and Liberty are all well in front.
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@mn5 said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
I’d never go as far as to say a craft brewery wasn’t good, law of average would dictate they do at least something that is enjoyable, perhaps “less memorable” is a better description ?
Wildflower is plenty "memorable".
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@tim they were pretty good back in the day, I liked thier Pale Ale and I think the Crystal Wheat beer (this thread was inspired by the Pale Ale)
But feel they have deteriorated over the years, have had the odd drink of theirs in the past couple of years, is drinkable, but will choose something else first.
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@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
Woke up today with an awful hangover, after 2x 330 mL cans of the 4% sawmill, and 2x 330 mL bottles of german lager. A "peanut" smell is sometimes associated with Tetrahydropyridines, which are produced by lactic acid bacteria, Brettanomyces, moulds, acetic acid bacteria, over heating, and oxidation spoiling. i.e. the beer was likely skunked or the batch was infected.
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@tim said in Beer thread:
Woke up today with an awful hangover, after 2x 330 mL cans
A "peanut" smell is sometimes associated with TetrahydropyridinesThats all I got from your post...either a light weight or something in the brewing process
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@taniwharugby Ask @snowy or @Duluth, neither a lightweight figuratively nor literally!
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@tim said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
Woke up today with an awful hangover, after 2x 330 mL cans of the 4% sawmill, and 2x 330 mL bottles of german lager. A "peanut" smell is sometimes associated with Tetrahydropyridines, which are produced by lactic acid bacteria, Brettanomyces, moulds, acetic acid bacteria, over heating, and oxidation spoiling. i.e. the beer was likely skunked or the batch was infected.
Yet again I've learnt something on this site that will impress the shit out of other people.
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For the non “hazy hop fruit sour juice” ale imbibers I just had a bottle of Townshends Sutton Hoo for the first time in years. It’s available at New Worlds all over at the moment.
Anyway they label it an American Amber Ale but it strongly reminded me of the Autumn Ales that were seasonally released in the UK on cask. Wimbledon Brewery did a very nice one as did Youngs. -
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@antipodean said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
@tim said in Beer thread:
Sawmill has a new 4% lager beer. Never a good brewery to start with. They're so bad at brewing now that they've made a lager that smells like peanuts.
Woke up today with an awful hangover, after 2x 330 mL cans of the 4% sawmill, and 2x 330 mL bottles of german lager. A "peanut" smell is sometimes associated with Tetrahydropyridines, which are produced by lactic acid bacteria, Brettanomyces, moulds, acetic acid bacteria, over heating, and oxidation spoiling. i.e. the beer was likely skunked or the batch was infected.
Yet again I've learnt something on this site that will impress the shit out of other people.
I am going to deliberately buy peanut smelling beer just so that I can quote that (the problem might be remembering it. I'll print it out and carry it around in my wallet, although it may lose some effectiveness doing that).
Maybe I'll just use "skunked". I'll have no problem with recall there.
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@tim said in Beer thread:
@crucial Nice, I really miss "real ale".
Helps that it was either uncarbonated or very lightly so. Just had a natural carbonation as if it had been drawn from a cask.
I am going to order some from them direct as they do 1.25l pub pets that work out a nice price. -
Duncan's boysenberry and chocolate ripple ice cream sour
First sip was interesting but grew on me as I drank more.
8 wired Cucumber Hippy Berliner weisse.
Drinkable, clean flavour, tart but undecided if I liked it much...
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
8 wired Cucumber Hippy Berliner weisse.
Drinkable, clean flavour, tart but undecided if I liked it much...What is the point of a name so long by the time I've ordered it I've sobered up?
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@nostrildamus at 4% that's probably the point....
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@mn5 said in Beer thread:
IPA and Burgers. Makes sense
I was so happy to read something by some "famous" sommelier, or chef, or some-such a few years back, which pretty much said:
Beer pairing, and wine pairing simplified....
> Drink what the fuck you want, with whatever the fuck you want to eat.I seem to recall it came with the obvious caveats.... drinking a super-heavy Syrah, then trying to appreciate the delicate flavors of a whitebait omelette... is probably something I'd avoid.
And I do seem to have a (racist?) tendency to go with whites with white, reds with red...
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@mn5 said in Beer thread:
IPA and Burgers. Makes sense
That’s as bad as those wine match charts. The amazing matches will go against the standard “rules”.
Stout goes with anything salty.
A really crisp lager with pork belly.
IPA is a horrible food match beer unless you riff off the hop flavours.
