Futuristic IPA

Tried one of these last weekend, it's one of the three celebration beers made by Siren for their 12th birthday (hence the logo on the can). Called "Persistence of time" it's an IPA made with some rather futuristic ingredients. Firstly the hops are all experimental varietals including Incognito®, Super Sauvin®, Cryo®, Dynaboost® and Hyperboost® it also contains "cannabis Terpenes" which are the chemical aroma and flavour elements (essential oils) of the cannabis plant. It was interesting to see if I could pick out the flavours but since hops are very closely related to cannabis anyway, and often very similar in flavour profile I couldn't honestly say that I detected anything particularly different. This beer is exceptionally "dank" (i.e. weedy) though, which people often say is typical of cannabis, anyway, certainly a futuristic IPA

Rainbow Boozer

Walking into town late last Sunday evening we noticed this rather odd rainbow effect on the side of a chimney stack on top of a local pub. It wasn't obvious what was casting the colours but the sun was very intense and there are a bunch of road signs (with reflective backgrounds) on the junction below, possibly the cause of this rather attractive lighting effect, either that or God is sending me a message telling me to drink more beer in this boozer, I think I should obey such a "sign", don't you?

Better than the original

Tried one of these at the weekend, one of Siren's 11th birthday celebration beers it's a spin on their house IPA "Lumina" except it's a lot hazier and also at 5.4% a bigger mouthfeel and a little richer and deeper in taste profile, I like it, better than the original IMO.

Monday Mirth

A spectacular piece of street art (in Aberdeen), what does it mean though? I reckon it represents all those people who voted for Brexit, i.e. they'll fall for anything.

Sunday Smile

Always love a good Larson..

Made it..

Spent the night in London on Thursday, managed to visit one of my checklist of  "must visit" pubs, The Lyric in Soho (see picture above). It's a proper London "stand-up" pub meaning there's not many seats and most people stand up (or stand outside) The selection of beers is very good, I opted for a couple of Siren brews (ironic since Siren is the local brewery to where I live in Berkshire) but they were perfectly on point, a decent boozer but loud and "standupy", don't say you weren't warned..

Friday Smirk

 Jesus and Mo discussing relativity in religiously inspired crimes, nice work if you can get it..