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El Sid
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The state of the world has driven me to drink.... Trying to stick more to beer here, but we'll see how that goes. @El__Sid in that other place, @[email protected]
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 12h
Genius, not genus without an i...
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 12h
Mostly sucralose though, sugar content of the strawberry version is only 1.015.

Classic unflavoured Supermalt is 1.052 sugars, 1.059 total carbs - would give yeast a lot more to get their teeth into....
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 17h
What are their policies on partigyling and double dropping?

Vote Gyle Party!
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 3d
But Karmaliet (and Kwak) *are* using that model.

They're not some plucky underdogs, they were bought by ABI in 2016.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 4d
That's how Inbev/Budweiser got to be the biggest brewery in the world... It's just an example of how the big boys control access to distribution.

Not much good in your neck of the woods but Waitrose usually have the 33cl and I'm sure have had the big bottles in the past.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 5d
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 6d
Pretty much the concept of The Circle :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cir...
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 6d
Whisk(e)y is just wood-flavoured vodka, it's a question of just finding ones with the right amount of woodiness for you.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 6d
Enough with polluting a British tradition with yet more nonsense from the Americas. Halloween is Celtic, so the only acceptable spirit of Halloween is whisk(e)y.

And yes, you should be carving neeps rather than pumpkins, like I was forced to do as a kid, even though they're complete nightmares...
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 6d
I read it as constrained in time - in the UK it's almost all on cask in small gyles, so it's only around for 3-4 weeks, there's no major smallpack brand like Celebration here.

Kent brewers do make some GH stouts, even saisons, but you can't beat plain Otter & green Goldings.

Jennings use Hukins.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 6d
Overnight mash can buy you quite a bit of time on Sunday if you can spare a short amount on Saturday...
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 9d
Then if you go to taprooms :

"Niche classic Euro styles done either really well, or really badly".

If in doubt - add more crystal, whether to alts or bitters. Make mild really fizzy. All that stuff.

And a special circle of hell for the hoppy US Newcastle Brown Ale (I know it's dead now).
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 9d
Arguably more interesting is all the allied stuff - the near-absence of cider, and in particular fruit cider, which plays a similar role to hard seltzer (and all the other "hard ....") in the US.

You see quite a few hop waters in US supermarkets, still niche here. We prolly have more AF beers tho.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 9d
More seriously, if I was looking for things that are properly A Thing in the US (such that they're common in supermarkets) but not in the UK :

Clean-yeast wheat beers(312, Blue Moon etc)
Pumpkin beers (in own right and as a proxy for other Weird Stuff In Beer)
"Session ..." - aka "beer" in the ROTW
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 9d
Budweiser, Miller AND Coors.

[someone had to]
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 9d
+1 on Dolphin, and they're wild-led. I encountered them for the first time recently and was quite impressed, Aria was lovely, Protege could have maybe done with a bit more cellar time to soften the red grape tannins.

Limited distribution beyond Reading-ish probably doesn't help awareness.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 12d
I also know of a farmer with 90% of his Ernest uncontracted - it's a great hop (albeit a bit of a pain to harvest) but farmers need support to grow it!!!
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 12d
It's a big thing this year. Also as I've said before there's a bit of a style emerging in Kent at 4-5% with Ernest/Harlequin plus other Faram hops in support.

Have to say @pigandporter.bsky.social had one of the better ones....
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 12d
Immediate reactions from UK green hop at Spa Valley - great year for Goldings, but more are doing Ernest to greater or lesser success. Challenger notably lemony rather than orangey this year. Shame other varieties brewed by 'lesser' breweries but enjoyed their efforts even if mostly unsuccessful.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 13d
So you'll be making a trial batch of your new coffee stout then?

#whenlifegivesyoulemons
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 13d
May there be no gremlins in your Fremlins.

Are you over for long? The Spa Valley festival in TWells starts tonight, probably the best place for green hop beers anywhere.

Interesting to see how green hop is evolving - lot more Ernest these days, and I'm intrigued by a green hop Emperor...
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 13d
The emphasis is more on wild isolates, for brewing fans, I can see
"WLP001;US-05"
"WLP039;Nottingham"
WLP090 [San Diego]
WLP099 [High Gravity]
"WLP565;T-58" [Belgian Saison, supposedly ex-Dupont]
WP570 [Belgian Golden, supposedly McEwans via Duvel]

NCYC_88 Thorne's "Yeast S"
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 13d
This paper is nuts - high quality (near-T2T) genomes for 1,086 isolates of yeast (S. cerevisiae), then analysing them (GWAS) for linkage to 8,391 traits.

Yeast is great for showing how evolution works in detail as it has a small genome, many strains with different histories & well characterised.
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 15d
Oktoberfest 1914/1940.

It just depends on your definition of Greater Bavaria...
eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 15d
“Yes I would quite like to try Oktoberfest.”

“Why, yes, I am a beer lover!”

“Oh, you say you have a special ticket for Oktoberfest beer lovers? Brilliant!”

“I’m sorry, there appears to be some kind of mistake…”

Oktoberfest in Brussels - the Bavarians will be burning their dirndls in the streets!
Screenshot of the ticket menu for an Oktoberfest festival in Brussels, including a “beer lover ticket + 100cl Stella Artois” ticket option
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El Sid @elsid.bsky.social · 15d
Perhaps they could move the jobs to a completely different country, but still brand them as "Amsterdam jobs"? Cos Heineken would never do something like that.

Hey presto - no cuts to "Amsterdam jobs"!