Subsim Skippers Brewhouse Beer Club

[Jimbuna]

Boy returned home from the Phillipines yesterday and was thoughtful enough to bring his old man a bottle of the local fooch.

It is actually very nice.

[Eichhörnchen]

4.6% ABV and only £1.19 at LIDL Stores. It is astonishingly like the 'Golden Crown' I mentioned before (see link below)... that beer has turned out to be the one I want to drink every weekend, with its resinous, bitter tang. In fact I thought I would never want anything else until we had to do our shop at LIDL today and Moira got this instead. It is a golden colour, like the other one, but has an even more powerfully bitter taste and is a little stronger.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...0&postcount=24

[Jimbuna]

^ Only ever seen that at Sainsbury's and yet to try it.

Pray tell.

[Eichhörnchen]

Really bitter... lovely on its own. The price is amazing when you think you can pay over two quid for a beer at Tesco.

[Eichhörnchen]

Again only £1.19 at LIDL. Another strong golden ale, 5% ABV this time, but sweeter and less resinous than the last one... fabulous value.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Really bitter... lovely on its own. The price is amazing when you think you can pay over two quid for a beer at Tesco.

Will be off to LIDL with the wife this afternoon actually so radar will be switched on. Off to Tesco now but I seldom get past the dark rum section

[Jimbuna]

Not long back from Lidl and not a sight of any of the above

[Eichhörnchen]

That's a shame... ours is a brand new store only opened 3 weeks ago, so maybe that's got something to do with it: get people flocking in there for great prices and items which will turn out just to be short-lived.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

That's a shame... ours is a brand new store only opened 3 weeks ago, so maybe that's got something to do with it: get people flocking in there for great prices and items which will turn out just to be short-lived.

Quite possibly but we have two in town and one recently reopened two month ago after having been demolished to make way for a completely new and larger rebuild.

I'll try the older and smaller store tomorrow me thinks.

[Eichhörnchen]

The Green Gecko:
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Beers-1212.htm

Brakspear is actually a Wychwood product and although I can't find it in LIDL's beers list above, I know it's on sale in the Boston store

[Jimbuna]

No luck at the other/smaller store so it's looking like Carling and Captain Morgan tonight.

[Eichhörnchen]

https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda...Rum_700ml.html

I've had a couple of bottles of this lately... a really fabulous rum

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

https://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda...Rum_700ml.html

I've had a couple of bottles of this lately... a really fabulous rum

That is what I brought back from George Bush International Airport when I attended the SubSim Texas Meet, not forgetting a bottle of this little beauty below that Tarjak/Grant brought over for me from Australia.

[Eichhörnchen]

(From Wold Top Yorkshire Brewery, £1.83 from ASDA, 6% ABV)...fresh, crisp amber beer with a pure white head; bitter and sweet, but more sweet than bitter, this is a refreshing drinking ale and not at all cloying... I'll certainly be drinking more of this one.

[Jimbuna]

My son recently had a friend of his from the Phillipines stay with him for six weeks and we were informed he preferred dark beer to lager, so I purchased a few crates of Black Sheep for our weekly Monday evening familly dinner meets.
He's gone back home now and I realised I still had a few bottles left, no problem, they tasted great and this has re-ignited my 'addiction' temporarily away from the usual lagers.

I'm going to Tesco shortly and had a look online for who is currently the cheapest dark rum provider when I come across the sister beer to Black Sheep I hadn't seen before, Golsden Sheep, at 4.7% it is slightly stronger than Black Sheeps 4.4% so I'll give it a try this evening.

Not badly priced either at £6 for 4x500ml bottles.