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Alltech Brews and Food, 6-8 February

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    #32
    BeerNut
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    drumswan wrote: »
    could you grab the name and ABV of the Lambic
    Elgood's Coolship is 6.7%, as bigar says. It's a bit rough around the edges: I can see why the Belgians keep acres of barrels and blend to get good beer.

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    #33
    BaZmO*
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    Apparently O'Hara's Double IPA won gold at this. What the gold was for I'm not so sure.


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    #34
    Lovely Bloke
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    Gold Medal for the style.

    It being the only representation of it's particular style, it was a dead cert.

    :P


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    BaZmO*
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    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    Gold Medal for the style.

    It being the only representation of it's particular style, it was a dead cert.

    :P

    Ha. That'd explain it alright.


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    #36
    oblivious
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Elgood's Coolship is 6.7%, as bigar says. It's a bit rough around the edges: I can see why the Belgians keep acres of barrels and blend to get good beer.

    Just sour no depth?


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    BeerNut
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    Yeah, none of the woody smoothness. A fair bit of residual sugar too: it tasted more like a faro than a straight lambic.

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    #38
    youcancallmeal
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    Went yesterday and must say I enjoyed it. Few people I was with weren't drinking(Just wanted to watch the game on the big screen) so didn't have to spend any money on tokens thankfully. I did get to talk to a couple of the brewers before the rugby started but after that it was pretty tough due to the level of noise. I tried the lambic from Elgoods, wouldn't usually be something I'd drink but it was interesting. Loved the Kentucky Kolsch, you rarely see it outside Cologne and I thought it was a fairly faithful attempt. My favourite of the day was probably the Redwell steam beer. It helps that I like steam beers it was the only steam beer I could find!


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    #39
    matrim
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    Went yesterday too. Some nice beers but I was disappointed with the food, a few places finished their samples and they weren't selling to eat at the festival. I went not having eaten expecting to pick up a pie but they were only selling for take home and cook yourself.

    I enjoyed the Stone Barrel American style IPA, Bru Dubh, N17 Rye. Wasn't a huge fan of the new Hilden IPA but it was ok


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    strobe
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    Headed down with the gf on the Saturday. Thought having the game on was a great idea, but agree they coulda tuned the volume down a bit.

    Tried a lot of things, with the tiny portions wasn't gonna go buy any extra tokens though. Most samples people poured were nearly half a glass anyway. My favourite by far I think was the rotation brew by the Boom IPA people, can't remember the name of the brewery. Very OFAF/Brewdog Hardcore like. Lovely stuff.


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