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Major Strasser: What is your nationality?
Rick: I'm a drunkard.
Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
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The Orkney Brewery Raven Ale
Stromness, Scotland - 3.8% ABV
Brewer's Note: A golden coloured ale with an intense grainy nose, rich and fruity on the palate with a lingering hint of hop in the finish.
CAMRA's Championship Beer of Scotland 2009 is a fruity, resinous golden/pale ale with a honey-cum-lemon palate and a good malt balance. Lasting hop bitterness. The pine-tree aroma alone is something to behold, and it's definitely better with bubbles, meaning: from the bottle. A good example that a low-alcohol beer need not be devoid of character.
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Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb
Munich, Germany - 5.6% ABV
Brewer's Note: Paulaner Hefeweizen is cloudy with a beautiful amber color and thick creamy white head. There are hints of banana, spice, and wheat.
It's main rival being Erdinger, Paulaner is one of the iconic cloudy wheats of Bavaria; both are being distributed on a global scale. The two are quite different: While Erdinger is more finely tuned, yeastier, less fruity on the palate, Paulaner is robust, spicy and fruity.
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Fuller's London Porter
Chiswick, London, England - 5.4% ABV
Brewer's Note: Fuller’s London Porter captures the flavours of those original brews perfectly, although you won’t find a cloudy pint these days! Rich, dark and complex, at 5.4% ABV the beer has an outstanding depth of flavour. It is brewed from a blend of Brown, Crystal and Chocolate malts for a creamy delivery balanced by traditional Fuggles hops. The range of flavours works well with a wide variety of foods, ranging from rich meat dishes, to oysters, and even chocolate puddings.
It's great that the porter style has been revived in recent years. It's sufficiently different from stouts (smoother, lesser emphasis on "burnt" notes) and particularly pleasant in the winter. Fuller's London Porter is one the highest-rated at RateBeer.com, and that's no surprise.
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Sep 4, 2011 - 7:56 AM
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Depends. Do you prefer filtered, clear cider, unfiltered or cask-matured?
For example, a characterful, but wee heavy (8.2% ABV) oak-matured cider is this one;
Harry Weston's Vintage Reserve Cider
Less alcoholic, but also prominently cask-aged (adds a note of vanilla and almonds to the citrus/appple taste), is this one:
Wychwood (actually, Thatcher's) Green Goblin
There might be even more "individual" ciders around, but these two are better-than-average and are available internationally.
Ciders and perries are presented at all CAMRA events in the UK. Even as a member I find it hard to understand how they're part of the beer family.
Not sure which of the maturation varieties I'd prefer, but I'll begin by testing out the ones your recommend. Thank you very much sir.
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Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb
Munich, Germany - 5.6% ABV
Brewer's Note: Paulaner Hefeweizen is cloudy with a beautiful amber color and thick creamy white head. There are hints of banana, spice, and wheat.
It's main rival being Erdinger, Paulaner is one of the iconic cloudy wheats of Bavaria; both are being distributed on a global scale. The two are quite different: While Erdinger is more finely tuned, yeastier, less fruity on the palate, Paulaner is robust, spicy and fruity.
This is what they have on draught at my local. £3.60 a pint. Prior to this they had Bitburger, which I really liked a lot; a sad day for me when they had it replaced.
- James.
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This is what they have on draught at my local. £3.60 a pint.
That doesn't sound so expensive. The highest price for a bottle (500ml) of German wheat that I had to pay was £5.25 at Le Petit Quotidien. In London at least, 3.50 or so is the going rate even for most British brews.
Prior to this they had Bitburger, which I really liked a lot; a sad day for me when they had it replaced.
Well, cloudy wheats are a totally different animal. Personally, after having tasted so many British beers in the course of the past 14 months I find it hard to drink a "Pilsener" like Bit.
When in Germany I can stand mostly only wheat beers now. Can't wait to get to England again [actually, only 10 days from now, to Blackpool].
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This is what they have on draught at my local. £3.60 a pint.
That doesn't sound so expensive. The highest price for a bottle (500ml) of German wheat that I had to pay was £5.25 at Le Petit Quotidien. In London at least, 3.50 or so is the going rate even for most British brews.
Prior to this they had Bitburger, which I really liked a lot; a sad day for me when they had it replaced.
Well, cloudy wheats are a totally different animal. Personally, after having tasted so many British beers in the course of the past 14 months I find it hard to drink a "Pilsener" like Bit.
When in Germany I can stand mostly only wheat beers now. Can't wait to get to England again [actually, only 10 days from now, to Blackpool].
Well I assume that the Paulaner on draught isn't the wheat variety, but I could be wrong. They do sell Erdinger (2 selections) in big bottles. Certainly when it comes to lagers the Germans do it best. One of the pubs in town (Salisbury, Wilts.) has Warsteiner on draught which I can drink to a band playin'!
- JMM.
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Ah- goldsmith-rulez! That picture of the Raven Ale brings back the memories. I've been great friends with the head brewer of the Orkney plant since we went through university together 30 years ago. You'll see his name on the label. I remember when he was just starting out in that business, a bunch of us went up to Orkney to visit him. It's an absolutely stunningly beautiful island (it was even sunny for the weekend). We visited all the ancient historic sites and then he said "You'll be wanting to see the brewery, aye?" And so we went to the brewery. He didn't even have any staff - it was just him! So we stood there and spent the evening just sampling all those different Orkney beers! it was heaven!
Sorry, that was a rant.
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Ah! Dark Island! That's a lovely beer! Big Andy Fulton will be well chuffed when I tell him that we were extolling the virtues of his beers on a film music board!
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I think you guys should rename this thread -- doesn't look like anything other than beer, ale, will be discussed. Not that I am complaining! This is all very interesting -- I used to love dark beer and ales when I could imbibe them. Maybe I can sneak in an ale or two a month without causing havoc to my numbers and clogging up the old arteries.
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Hövels Original Feinherbes Rotgold
Dortmund, Germany - 5.5% ABV
A typical Altbier-style ale [Altbier is the Duesseldorf antipode to the Cologne-based Koelsch), dark amber in colour with a malty taste. This one is only very moderately bitter, the carbonation relatively low for a German bottled beer. Grain, resin and dried fruit on the palate. Slightly sweet-ish malty finale and aftertaste. It comes in rather huge green bottles with a swing-top. Almost as big as a wine bottle, it still holds only 500ml.
If you're an Englishman traveling in Germany and craving for a London Pride-style beer (the flagship brew of Fuller, Smith and Turner), Hövels makes a good facsimile.
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