Virtual Happy Hour (Brews & Spirits, Pics & Reviews)

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[Zardnaar]

Big weekend, ANZAC day Australia New Zealand Army Core day).

Drinking done Indiand and Russian beers with Australian wine because in 1915 the ANZACs invaded Turkey on behalf of the UK because Germany invaded Belgium and France due to a Serb shooting an Austrian in Bosnia. So we have a long weekend.

 

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400km drive and I find this.

Disappeared after Covid lockdown locally.

 

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400km drive and I find this.


Disappeared after Covid lockdown locally.

What's it like?

 

[Cadence]

Left Hand Brewing Co., Wake Up Dead, Nitro Imperial Stout. Can says "Super smooth with notes of cocoa and dried fruit" 10.2% ABV. 3.9/5, 88/100 Very Good on Beer Advocate.

I usually don't order nitros, but this was good. Didn't really catch the dried fruit taste they advertised, and couldn't tell it was 10.2 (so those are both plusses).

If I did more nitros it would be at least an 8... and I might still give it that.

 

[Zardnaar]

What's it like?

It's a type of pilsner. It's not amazing or anything just easy to drink.

The more exotic beers are nice with a meal or whatever but not so great when you decide to have a few.

That one and the Russian IPAs and APAs went down well with the group.

 

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Pint if Panhead Supercharger.

A hoppy pilsner or IPA not sure.

Nice enough but not amazing 7/10 beer weekend.

 

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Weekend was a non event in the booze thing. Wasn't feeling the best and didn't even finish my beer at the pub.

Nothing wrong with the beer just ate to much bad food.

Bought a grand total of two packets of D&D minis.

Came back with this though. Only drunk 3/12 kingfisher. Each of these babies is 900mls.

 

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Xingu Brazilian Black Beer. It used to be one of the more variable ones from bottle to bottle (not sure if that's still the case), and I describe it as the black-cherry soda of beers. 3.49/5 and 79/100 okay on beer advocate. 4.6% ABV. Several hundred different beers and a two decades ago this was in my regular rotation. Not anymore, but I might bump it to 80/100 for old time's sake.

 

[Zardnaar]

Sad lack of variety in my beers. In three weeks I've been finishing off that dozen Kingfishers and drunk 2/7 large cans of Zatecky Gus.

About 4 litres/ gallon approx total.

 

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Took me 5 weeks to drink the dozen Kingfishers and Zatecky Gus cans. Sober for the whole lot (one at a time basically). Out of beer now.

Had this tonight Orange Roughy tropical ale.

That's a pint!!

 

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Think in getting a short list of favorite beers. This is one of them.

Tuatara Hazy pale ale. Can't remember the % I think it's 5.2%.

Doesn't seem to be on beer advocate but several other Tuatara beers are ranging from 8.1-9.2.

 

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St Pete is like my hometown, Baltika is still kinda considered cheap, most of my friends usually just get their non-alcoholic grapefruit and mix it with vodka or gin (song by local St P band Leningrad- In Piter We Drink). My mother was Czech though (Czech, Jewish, and Sinti really), she cared for wine mostly, if not harder stuff. I do beers usually, and I like the Pilsner Urquell tall cans I get at the local liquor store.

The only time I have really done Kingfisher is when having Indian food.

Pints out at the pub game night pre-quarantine were Sierra Nevada or Yuenglings.

 

[Zardnaar]

St Pete is like my hometown, Baltika is still kinda considered cheap, most of my friends usually just get their non-alcoholic grapefruit and mix it with vodka or gin (song by local St P band Leningrad- In Piter We Drink). My mother was Czech though (Czech, Jewish, and Sinti really), she cared for wine mostly, if not harder stuff. I do beers usually, and I like the Pilsner Urquell tall cans I get at the local liquor store.

The only time I have really done Kingfisher is when having Indian food.

Pints out at the pub game night pre-quarantine were Sierra Nevada or Yuenglings.

Baltika here is similar in price to every other Euro type lager. Baltika 9 is very cheap for most abv% per dollar. Baltika 7 us alright, 6 us good along with imperial stout. I like Zatecky Gus better.

Think I like generic eurolagers for my drip along with various pale ales.

 

[dragoner]

Baltika here is similar in price to every other Euro type lager. Baltika 9 is very cheap for most abv% per dollar. Baltika 7 us alright, 6 us good along with imperial stout. I like Zatecky Gus better.

Think I like generic eurolagers for my drip along with various pale ales.

That is their thing, I always thought, the high alcohol beers. Germans do the Spaten Optimater, I have had those, however when I was going to school in Austria, I would have Stiegl grapefruit beer and vodka. Living in the UK it was whatever was cheap at the pub.

 

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That is their thing, I always thought, the high alcohol beers. Germans do the Spaten Optimater, I have had those, however when I was going to school in Austria, I would have Stiegl grapefruit beer and vodka. Living in the UK it was whatever was cheap at the pub.

When I'm out having a meal probably some sort of pale ale, at home a nice generic lager.

Generic lager varies usually whatever's cheap at the supermarket but I'll look for.

Zatecky Gus
Krombacher
Carlsburg Pilsner

Not a particular fan of Heineken though.

 

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Woke up this morning with cold sweats, a headache and feeling like crap.

Got some blood in the alcohol stream accidentally.

No beer. Some sort of Aussie lolly water.

Only 6% and sweet.

 

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Whatever this is.

Tastes like watered down strawberry vodka. Haven't bought any booze for 2 months and found this floating around.

Not sure I can knock this back. Heading towards a 2/10 or 3/10 seeing how much I can stomach it.

Edit. 1/10 few mouthfuls in feeling bleah. Would make me sick if I drink a lot. It's actually unpleasant to drink.

Sister in law likes it, I'll see what the drains opinion is.

It's worse than that Ukrainian beer I bought. A lot worse than that crap Aussie beer I bought which was semi drinkable.

 

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Urbanaut Tropical Imperial Stout

Random find at the supermarket coming in a smaller hipater can 250ml. Didn't bother reading the can but it's 12% 2.4 abv.

No idea what a tropical imperial stout tastes like. Tropical here often means more hops.

Strong burnt taste on first sip that mellows out more you drink. Potent stuff typical Imperial Stout though.

The tropical taste is a slightly fruity taste slight sweet mitigating the bitterness of the stout.

Can says dark chocolate and toffee taste with aromatic burst of tropical fruit and coconut. Bit pretentious but it tasted good.

Hop varieties Mosaic Sabro and Cyro. Whatever they are.

Nice enough 8/10. Would drink again but I don't think you would want to go crazy.

 

[Cadence]

A month behind posting. Today's was virtual happy hour due to other engagements - Guinness Nitro Cold Brew Coffee Stout. This one scared me because it had the most coffee smell I've ever experienced in a beer, but it was really good (and Guinness' are still the only Nitros I'm a fan of). Beer Advocate has it 4.05/5, 89 Very Good.