Sly Fox-"Pikeland Pils" 🇺🇸 #1001Beers No.775 (all editions) 28 Jun 2024. Competent, enjoyable hoppy pils. Love the herby North German hops 👃: bit like buttered samphire/romaine lettuce, or cedar wood. Sweetcorn 👅; crispy baked corn end.
Mikkeller-"Black" 🇩🇰/🇧🇪 #1001Beers No.774 (all editions) Jun 2024. A licorice cognac, really. 👃: choc mousse; açai/raspberry coulis; cognac/calvados; a sweet Shiraz 🍷. 👅: coffee, licorice, raspberry juice. Long boozy end with licorice, brown sugar, raisins+ Rioja.
Yo-Ho-"Yona Yona Ale" 🇯🇵 #1001Beers No.772 (all edns)9 Jun 2024. Like a more floral WCIPA. Powerful but polite nose of orange marmalade, cedar wood, loukumi/turkish delight/rosewater +yuzu. Bit more caramel/apricot jam in mouth+ on finish, which has a Seville 🍊 bitter bite. Konoji, Oslo- tusen takk
Yards-"George Washington Tavern Porter" 🇺🇸 #1001Beers No.770 (all editions) 8 Jun 2024. Faint cocoa powder (&milky coffee) throughout. 👅has a little more brown sugar+ stewed prune. Ends highlights the plum-like sweet dark malt.
Ommegang-"Abbey Ale" 🇺🇸 #1001Beers No.769 (all editions) 25 May 2024. Another dark, well-made beer from Ommegang. A fruity nose, led by orange peel/dried apricot +a little plum, atop brown sugar. Mouth: more brown sugar, raisins, chestnut puree. Classy licorice +raisins bitter end.
Magic Hat-"#9" 🇺🇸 #1001Beers No.768 (all edns) 10 May 2024. 'Anot quite pale ale': like a 🇨🇿 polotmavý mixed with an 'Italian pilsner'.👃: grapefruit/🍊 zest, fresh ginger, mixed peel/physallis fruit, faint herb (thyme, lavender) or grass.👅: a bit thicker than expected (nice), 🍋 cake-y. ...
Since Ringwood's closure, this has been trickier than before to find! Must have had it before, but merited trying again + recording that. Thanks to Keith for looking this out+ Budgens Brighton for being a reliable #trainbeers source.
Ringwood-"Old Thumper"* 🏴: #1001Beers No.766 (all edns) 22 Apr 2024. 👃:a subtle complexity - 🍊 🍋lime swirl on a bed of tea. 👅: more tea(malty bed); also melon. End: more straightforward(like many English bitters)but with a black tea tang or 2. Enjoyed more than I recall.
Drummer- "Dunkles Vollbier" 🇩🇪1001Beers No.765 (all edns) 12 Apr 2024. 👃: brown 🍞, toasted almonds, hot dog/Bratwurst. 👅: brown bread/rye bread. End with more 🍞, then a slightly metallic quality (unfortunately). Have to try another one!
Had in Nürnberg Apr24 (Landbierparadies?) and at brewery Sep24
Brauerei Bischofshof- "Regensburger Zwickl"* 🇩🇪1001Beers No.763 (all edns) 11 Apr 2024. 👃: some spiciniess (like a saison beer's yeast), damp straw smell. 👅: baguette. Finishes with slightly dried oregano herbiness atop very light standard helles hop notes. *Previously "Zoigl" found in Regensburg
🇩🇪1001Beers No.761 (all edns) 10 Apr 2024. Beautifully smoky Märzen.👃: Dunkel-y straw hop atop smoked cheese-laden Roggenbrot. 👅: like dipping a 🥨 in caramel (I've tried that 😋 in a Brighton cafe called The New Club) End=similar to start> nicely drying tea-like hop bitterness
"Asgaard Das Göttliche" 🇩🇪1001Beers No.760 (all edns) 8 Apr 2024. Unusually crisp, offering more than a standard amber lager. 👃: some Biscoff biscuit, Seville 🍊 marmalade +herby leaf (rocket?). 👅: more like 🍞 or 🥨, ends with more caramel+some black tea bitterness.
Hofbräuhaus- "Maibock" 🇩🇪1001Beers No.759 (all edns) 7 Apr 2024. A lovely sweet malty seasonal beer, like a liquid Brezen. 👃: Brown sugar, with a touch of saké.👅: sweet tea. End: salted caramel crepe, tea.
Brauerei Schumacher- "Schumacher Alt" 🇩🇪1001Beers No.758 (all edns) 6 Apr (Hamburg)/27 Sep (Düsseldorf) 2024. It's a brown bread beer. Crisp brown 🍞, with a touch of fresh lettuce on the nose. Similar on draught
Thanks to The Queens Head Birmingham for the hospitality - and helpful info Also thank you to James M (without whom we'd not likely found this). *Previously "Highgate Old Ale" before the Highgate Brewery's demise
