if you've got it, flaunt it, and hang'em out to dry!

Ger'onimo! Beavertown in Collaboration with Jameson Irish Whiskey

Limited Edition Imperial Stout aged in Jameson Whiskey Barrels - 9% abv

and very very pricey!

So, if beers were Superheroes, which they never will be, then this is The Incredible Hulk. Ripping at the seams and lacking in sartorial eloquence, it's a bruiser! A Weeble Wobble of gigantic proportions. Thing is, Imperial Stout, hello, this is my cookie, my deep-fried cod, my number, my personal preference - power, richness, viscosity in equal measure. All present and correct - umami, spice, black jacks, bitter sweet, a knuckle duster to the palate. 

This is an arranged marriage, someone's got the bucks. Like a drag impresario Dolly Parton, all up front, F-cup, get a load of my flavours, tottering on platform heels, either this needs time, or the beer is out of balance. 

At this expense, one needs a head-check, leaving a feeling of disappointment. 

funk is a feeling!

Rare brew with the new fangled Spiegelau IPA glass -
Magic Rock Brewing, Farmhouse IPA in collaboration with Lervig Aktiebryggeri (Norway) -

Belgian yeast and brettanomyces (brett), funky it surely is in a hugely palatable way (cutting up the dance floor of the palate), sourdough bread, spiced ginger cake/pain d'épice, funky fruity hoppy aromatics. Very tasty,!

Wonderful design technology on the glass - like the bulb at the end of a yard of ale, there's a flow into the larger part of the glass vessel, and with each sip, a wash-back that ignites the aromas. Sensory enhancement!

I wanna paint the future, paint it black...

black is the colour of my true love's hair -

Bearded Lady Imperial Brown Stout by Magic Rock Brewing 10.5%abv

like a Turkish massage with knuckle dusters on, you cannot hide. low carbonation, ultra high engine oil viscosity, black jacks, chocolate sorbet, coffee and prune cake, sous bois, savoury bouillon, umami finish. relish!

memorable, like a train ride in a foreign country.

there ought to be a law against you comin' around, you should be made to wear earphones!

Worlds End by Ilkley Brewery - whisky aged chipotle chocolate stout

this is the way the world ends, not with a whimper, but a bang! (sorry T.S. Elliott)

not for the faint-hearted, a chipotle spiced chocolate stout that spends 9 months in 15 year old whisky casks, it's freakin' Islay casks - hello! It's a marriage a la Burton and Taylor, and gives great copy. There should be a law, but imagination has no laws. And it works, like spinning plates. Like a souped up custom car, this boy is klaxon horns, cow bells and a rollicking tune. 8% abv. Aromatically complex, rich, peat smoke, malt and chocolate, low carbonation, smoked kippers washed under tides of umami tainted Cocoa. The results are imperious!

Doff your cap to imagination and it's' successes! 

Top Hat and Tails - Elegant, Old European Riesling

Think Riesling. Pause for breath. Think again. The palate salivates at the thought. The salivary glands are ignited, kick started, there's a wrestle to pull a crab from its' limbs, to unhook and fillet a fish for the catch of the day, or indeed, another rotation on the suckling pig in gustatory anticipation. Rieslings, indeed, to be cheerful (part 3). The mind roams to the thirst quenching slurp of lime and lemon fruited Riesling, razor edged acidity. a bare-knuckle fighting white... And we mentally roam the lands, geographically flanking the unspeakably pretty Alsace, cartwheeling the slopes of the Mosel, donning a sunhat for Clare and Eden Valley, maybe checking in with Washington State, Hi to our Kiwi cousins... Hello, that means a gross omission - what about Austria's other white grape? 

2002 Prager Riesling Smaragd 'Klaus', Wachau - an Archduke, a European Aristocrat...

What's happening in the glass? Pale gold, still showing a tremendous medium+ acidity, haunting aromatics, baked apples, beeswax, quince, poached peach, lime, hay, lemon citrus squeezed over quartzite rocks. 

Anticipation is a strange bedfellow, and to be flirted with. Indeed, this was a blanc that was personally cellared some 10+ years. This wine comes on the back of an old listing, circa 2004, where the vivacious fruit, searing acidity and mineral purity were the heel stone.

Dish du Jour - drawing from Central European culinary traditions, a dish in the Slovak is known as Koložvárska Kapusta, and includes sauerkraut cabbage, rice, minced pork, lardons. 

 if brevity be the watchword, then - #7wordwinereview European Aristo, lemon citrus over quartzite, haunting 

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