Hello hello hello, what's going on here then? The weekend you say? Well, I don't mind if I do!!
Hurrah for Saturday's and the beer that flows like wine through them!
This week, is just plain bonkers. Bonkers, I tell you. We have a blackcurrant beer aged in red wine barrels. Yuk Mmm, fascinating. Then the ultimate in bonkers, a carrot beer.
I kid you not. A carrot beer. Well, let's get started.
First we have the...
A Scottish Blackcurrant Sour? How bizarre. I can tell I am in for bags of fun with this one.
It's been aged for four months in red wine barrels with whole Scottish blackcurrants.
Truth be told, I have had this one kicking about for weeks but I have not had any idea what to pair it with.
Anyway, I'm just delaying the inevitable. Here goes.
It's purple. I find that worrying and objectionable. There is also no head to it and a faint smell of socks. Oh well...
Aarrgh, words fail me. If a blackcurrant could get drunk this is what its hangover piss would taste like. 1/10 booms. I give it a point because it seems to have cleared my drains slightly when I poured it down the sink.
And now, the one we have all been waiting for...
Ladies and gentleman I give you... The carrot beer!!
A Gose style beer that is quite unbelievably brewed with carrots?!
Fucking carrots, can you believe it? The insanity of the 21st century never ceases to amaze. It also has coriander seed and Cornish sea salt and apparently is fermented with Yonders own house yeast cultures, which they call Bugs. Geddit?
Boak. Sounds fucking foul.
At least this one actually looks like beer. It has a faint orange tint to it which is giving me the mild heebies but I will cope. The head is a delicate little froth which rapidly fades to leave a golden orange beer behind.
Hmmm.
It's good!! A subtle little beer with a slight yeasty bread'yness to it. A little fizz in the tongue from the salt and a slightly sweet finish.
I can't believe I am going to say it but I like it!
8/10 booms!!! Hurrah for the carrots!!!
Well, I'm off to have more beer and much fun. Have a great weekend everyone!
Cheers!