Craft Beer

[Ambivalent Dave]

Possibly the only brewery I actively avoid to their beer being so f***ing shite previously.

Can’t recall one I’ve ever had I’d bother with again. Involving football with any local business is just a bit daft tbh. Doesn’t stop me buying stuff, but to the more fervent fans, they won’t touch Brands that have lined up alongside local teams. Vaux despite the long Sunderland connections with the name have steered this tricky path well. Appear quite regularly in Newcastle craft places

 

[Wild Card]

Wrong one. Clwb is a decent quite fruity pale, lunar Haze, iirc, is pretty bland.

Tiny Rebel are strange, their core beers are decent, their one offs largely shit.

Beaverton are mainly crap. Neck Oil is an OK crisp pale that is a go to if on draught and theres nowt else I fancy.

Aye, you were right. Nice fruit taste but ultimately quite bland. Not awful but wouldnt buy again.

 

[Longy]

Aye, you were right. Nice fruit taste but ultimately quite bland. Not awful but wouldnt buy again.

Get yersel on untapped so you remember

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Aye, you were right. Nice fruit taste but ultimately quite bland. Not awful but wouldnt buy again.

Clwb is proper fruity in comparison.

 

[Wild Card]

Clwb is proper fruity in comparison.

Having some hazy jane now from brewdog and it's nice enough.

 

[sketchy]

Wylam Argonaut is best they have done in a long time.

 

[Longy]

Was it on here somebody mentioned BrewDog we’re pushing their own session stout after the announcement Guinness is the most served in pubs?

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It doesn't have its own factory tour. The adverts aren’t black and white. It wasn’t brewed in 1759. But what if it’s better?

Introducing Black Heart, a 4.1% draft stout brewed in and for the 21st Century. Chocolate and extra dark crystal malts give waves of coffee, cocoa and subtle caramel. It’s smooth, it’s creamy, it’s all head and it’s all heart.

You might think you know what stout tastes like, but we’d urge you to give this one a try. Because the best stout you’ve ever had might just be the one you haven’t even tasted yet.

Now pouring in your local BrewDog bar.

 

[woodlebert]

Was it on here somebody mentioned BrewDog we’re pushing their own session stout after the announcement Guinness is the most served in pubs?

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It doesn't have its own factory tour. The adverts aren’t black and white. It wasn’t brewed in 1759. But what if it’s better?

Introducing Black Heart, a 4.1% draft stout brewed in and for the 21st Century. Chocolate and extra dark crystal malts give waves of coffee, cocoa and subtle caramel. It’s smooth, it’s creamy, it’s all head and it’s all heart.

You might think you know what stout tastes like, but we’d urge you to give this one a try. Because the best stout you’ve ever had might just be the one you haven’t even tasted yet.

Now pouring in your local BrewDog bar.

Pint of Guinness please

 

[Ambivalent Dave]

Was it on here somebody mentioned BrewDog we’re pushing their own session stout after the announcement Guinness is the most served in pubs?

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It doesn't have its own factory tour. The adverts aren’t black and white. It wasn’t brewed in 1759. But what if it’s better?

Introducing Black Heart, a 4.1% draft stout brewed in and for the 21st Century. Chocolate and extra dark crystal malts give waves of coffee, cocoa and subtle caramel. It’s smooth, it’s creamy, it’s all head and it’s all heart.

You might think you know what stout tastes like, but we’d urge you to give this one a try. Because the best stout you’ve ever had might just be the one you haven’t even tasted yet.

Now pouring in your local BrewDog bar.

Nah, no thanks.

 

[Longy]

Pint of Guinness please

Nah, no thanks.

I’ll give it a go, but it’s basically the opposite of the purpose of BrewDog isn’t (not that that’s been a sectret for a loooooong time). But basically seeing a best selling beer & doing their own exact copy is profiteering at its best. It’s even the exact same abv

 

[Steeeeeeed]

Basically be the same but about three pound more

 

[Longy]

Basically be the same but about three pound more

I’d guess they’d put it roughly the same price, maybe slightly more to appeal to a younger (brand conscious) crowd?

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

I’d guess they’d put it roughly the same price, maybe slightly more to appeal to a younger (brand conscious) crowd?

If its only on sale in Brewdog bars for now it'll be more than Guinness.

I'm intrigued to try it, but not sure when it'll be. My expectations are low so not in a hurry.

 

[Longy]

If its only on sale in Brewdog bars for now it'll be more than Guinness.

I'm intrigued to try it, but not sure when it'll be. My expectations are low so not in a hurry.

Jet Black Heart has been knocking about for years. It’ll be a rebrand of that.

If I’m in BrewDog I’m not drinking daft imitation Guinness like. There’s always 3/4 alternatives including guest beers

 

[James]

I’d guess they’d put it roughly the same price, maybe slightly more to appeal to a younger (brand conscious) crowd?

Reckon BrewDog are already less appealing than Guinness to the younger crowd. James Watt is toxic. At least Guinness/Diagio are just a faceless mega brand.

It'll probably be okay, Guinness is a pretty dull nitro stout, and I say this as someone who drinks a lot of it. As they grow their bar offering they'll want to cater to the masses, having an alternative is a no brainer. Jet Black Heart was half decent from memory?

Suspect they'll have jumped in here after seeing the appetite for Anspach and Hobday's London Black (in London obvs) too, which is flying out at the moment and indies are getting it in as their Guinness alternative.

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Reckon BrewDog are already less appealing than Guinness to the younger crowd. James Watt is toxic. At least Guinness/Diagio are just a faceless mega brand.

It'll probably be okay, Guinness is a pretty dull nitro stout, and I say this as someone who drinks a lot of it. As they grow their bar offering they'll want to cater to the masses, having an alternative is a no brainer. Jet Black Heart was half decent from memory?

Suspect they'll have jumped in here after seeing the appetite for Anspach and Hobday's London Black (in London obvs) too, which is flying out at the moment and indies are getting it in as their Guinness alternative.

Blues have just got the A&H in.

 

[James]

Blues have just got the A&H in.

Have you tried it yet? It's a good beer. They've definitely refined the recipe lately as it's less sweet than when it first came out, which suits me.

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Have you tried it yet? It's a good beer. They've definitely refined the recipe lately as it's less sweet than when it first came out, which suits me.

Not yet, its right up my street but not getting out much of late. Blues isn't very handy for me either sadly.

 

[Hammer]

Off to Oxford at the weekend, any suggestions for places to drink?

Have you tried it yet? It's a good beer. They've definitely refined the recipe lately as it's less sweet than when it first came out, which suits me.

Had a few at Dulwich Hamlet before Christmas. Thought it was excellent.

 

[FlyingLotus]

Reckon BrewDog are already less appealing than Guinness to the younger crowd. James Watt is toxic. At least Guinness/Diagio are just a faceless mega brand.

It'll probably be okay, Guinness is a pretty dull nitro stout, and I say this as someone who drinks a lot of it. As they grow their bar offering they'll want to cater to the masses, having an alternative is a no brainer. Jet Black Heart was half decent from memory?

Suspect they'll have jumped in here after seeing the appetite for Anspach and Hobday's London Black (in London obvs) too, which is flying out at the moment and indies are getting it in as their Guinness alternative.

Not sure I could lump myself in with the younger crowd anymore(!) but I haven’t spent a penny on Brewdog since all the stories about him came out. There are so many better options available now, which obviously helps.