Reverb

So this one (tried on Saturday) is from Elusive and is called "Reverb", it's a newer style pale WCIPA and is made with Amarillo, Talus and Krush hops, Krush being fairly new to the hop scene and providing tropical fruit and citrus aroma and flavour. I liked this beer, there's a lot going on, a little bit like drinking a bag of wine gums, very fruity but also with a decent bitter finish, particularly good with cheese (which by chance I was eating at the time!) - good effort!

For reference I downloaded the flavour wheel for Krush hops, as I previously mentioned, there's a lot going on with this one, particularly orange flavours complimented by Amarillo which also delivers orange and tangerine flavours, a citrus smorgasbord!

Oldskool WCIPA

 

Had one of these on Friday evening, it's a West Coast (WC) IPA collaboration from Indie Rabble (Windsor) and Siren (Finchampstead) both Berkshire brewers. Not your usual WCIPA, more a blast from the past, malt forward, bitter and what tasted like old skool C-Suite hops (Cascade, Centennial, Citra, Columbus etc.), not your usual citrusy pale westy, very nice for a change although it took a few sips to get back in the groove..

Reviewing Westys

My local brewers seem to have a thing for West Coast style beers at the moment, not that I'm complaining as I love it however I thought it reasonable to try out the current offerings (in the interests of science of course) and to see which one I liked best, individual reviews and summary to follow!

Friday Smirk

The lads discussing the inappropriateness of irony meters when it comes to religion. I can't say I disagree, I always smirked at the "big" claim of Christianity that Jesus died for our sins, but apparently only for the weekend.

Berlin Memories

Here's me looking thoughtful to the horizon at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin last year, it was a powerful (physical) monument but I have to be honest, like a lot of modern art, I wasn't entirely sure how to interpret it intellectually. 

Chile Memories

In preparation for the post on Friday here's a memory from our visit to Chile last year. It's one of the Cathedrals in the City centre and illustrates perfectly the opulence of the Catholic Church when compared to some of the bone crushing poverty we also witnessed there (i.e. adults sifting through the contents of rubbish bins after dark..) Of course there's plenty of poverty to be had on our little planet on all the inhabited continents, that's not what I'm highlighting here, it's the contrast.

More Whites

Following on from the Burgundy we had on Friday I opened the above wine (that I reckoned needed drinking) on Saturday. From Puligny Montrachet it was a 2002 Premier Cru from Clos de la Mouchere by producer Jean Boillot & Fils. I was half expecting this one to be past its best but boy was I wrong, absolutely stunning wine, rich, dry, full of flavour and very long. Perfect white Burgundy only one more of these left, but I don't think I should be in any hurry to open it, this one seems bullet-proof!