Here's a recent beer purchase

[malt_boy]

I kept it simple: a sixpack of Duvel.

I hope not all in one night, that stuff is lethal

[Mr Tattie Heid]

...a Belgian-style India Pale Ale from the USA.

[Moggy]

a few bottles of bacchus kriekenbier, lovely tangy and sweet...

[Trilo]

Old Empire is about the only Marstons brew I really like.
If you want a refreshing pale ale have you tried Fullers Bengal Lancer?

Fullers makes some great ESB!. Sadly no Bengal Lancer around here : (, well gotta hope that someone starts importing it. Thanks for the tip, gonna write it down and start spying if it appears on shelves!

There is Nogne O IPA out there, but I just couldn't handle that awfuly sopay taste (like some liquid citrus fruit handwash it was). All tho I should try it out again sometime because I think it was bad bottle and last time I tasted it was very early spring so not the season really.

[Mr Tattie Heid]

I love the Nogne Ø IPA...it's much too expensive here, though. Could the soapiness possibly have been an effect caused by something else you ate or drank before?

[Trilo]

I love the Nogne Ø IPA...it's much too expensive here, though. Could the soapiness possibly have been an effect caused by something else you ate or drank before?

Yeah I think it might have been food or something like that, tho canät really remember what I ate, it was 1 or 2 months ago. Must have another bottle at some point to test it out again.

[ColSanders]

What you describe is pretty typical for a lot of IPAs I'm finding (and is why I'm generally very reserved about buying any). That grapefruit rind/piney/soapiness which to me just scrubs my tongue...

[Andreas]

I like these quite alot!

[ColSanders]

Holy cow! Never knew Sierra Nevada made it so far across the globe!

[Moggy]

i love those 2 as well. the torpedo is especially nice

[malt_boy]

Sierra Nevada is amazing. The original IPA is a modern classic!

[archfluke]

I like the SN celebration ales especially. Summerbock and Glissade I think if memory serves, but only seen those a couple of times over here. Torpedo is yummy too.

Just wish Stone made it here in some sort of quantity.

[Iain M]

I like the SN celebration ales especially. Summerbock and Glissade I think if memory serves, but only seen those a couple of times over here. Torpedo is yummy too.

Just wish Stone made it here in some sort of quantity.

SN is great, Stone comes about twice a year, check a certain brewpuppy bar for it when it opens in the west later this year.

I just got hold of some;

Flying Dog Schwarz Double Lager
Flying Dog Imperial Porters
Sierra Nevade Barley Wine (2011 bottling)
Odell's Cut Throat Porter
Great Divides Beligca

Oh and some of the usual Brooklyn Lagers. It's good to see this many American brews coming to Edinburgh these days, the competitionis heating up here though and we dont see any Stone really anymore either (maybe once a year) and Rogue doesn't come now too. I have a feeling Dogfish head is becoming scarce too.

[archfluke]

Stone are apparently looking to open a brewery in the UK, from what I was told over in the US. They'd teach Brewdog a thing or two in the process, I'd imagine.

[Frodo]

x2 Innis & Gunn Blonde
x2 Innis & Gunn Canada Day Special Release

[malt_boy]

x2 Innis & Gunn Canada Day Special Release

Interesting!! What's that like?

Yesterday I purchased:

3x Theakstons Old Peculiar ( a quid a bottle in Tesco just now)
Paulaner HefeWeisse
Erdinger Wheat Beer
Weihenstephan Cloudy Wheat Beer
Tesco's American Double IPA ( made by brewdog, it's really hoppy and not a gulping beer )

[Frodo]

x2 Innis & Gunn Canada Day Special Release

Interesting!! What's that like?

It's a big brooding 8.5% monster, noticably hoppy but not out of balance if I remember. BIG beer...

[Trilo]

Sierra Neva Pale Ale
Samuel adams oatmeal stout
Greene King Strong Suffolk
Brooklyn American Ale x 2
Shepherd Neame Spitfire Ale (perfect for this warm weather)

[Trilo]

Fuller's ESB
Nøgne Ø India Pale Ale

Tested out that IPA now again and boy was it good! Nothing like last time

[Frodo]

x2 Samuel Smith Rasberry Ale (goes great with a paticular cigar of mine)
x1 Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

[C57]

x2 Samuel Smith Rasberry Ale (goes great with a particular cigar of mine)
x1 Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

Sam Smith's is a great brewery!

Fullers ESB ('nuff said)
Fullers Bengal Lancer (excellent IPA in hot weather)
Sharpes Doombar (very good)
Morland's Old Speckled Hen (great ale)
Adnams Broadside (love it)
Adnams Southwold Bitter (very good too)

[Mr Tattie Heid]

x2 Samuel Smith Rasberry Ale (goes great with a particular cigar of mine)
x1 Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

Sam Smith's is a great brewery!

Maybe so, but it's packaged, marketed, and priced as an ultra-premium beer in the US, when it is actually the cheapest beer in Yorkshire. When I found that out first-hand, I couldn't help but feel that the importer was (as you Brits so charmingly say) taking the piss. Never bought a bottle over here again. Actually, I rarely buy bottled British beer, anyway--it's pasteurized to death before it gets here, and as often as not tastes like wet cardboard. It really needs to be experienced in its native habitat, from the cask.

[C57]

That ofcourse, is undoubtedly true

[malt_boy]

6 Pack of bottle conditioned Belgian Beers from Lidl, all different and high abv (7%. 9%, 10.5%) Looking foward to trying these soon. Limited offer on so be quick if you want it. I got the last box in the Springburn Lidl in Glasgow

[johan brugge]

4 bottles of a brand new local Bruges beer called Straffe Hendrik 11 (of course at 11°). It's a dark beer that tastes a bit bitter like dark chocolate.