Dave Morton

I claim to be from a council house on the mean streets of Wolverhampton, but here I am eating goose pizza.

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Free local magazine through the letterbox today with a section by a "beer writer" on what & where to drink in town. They've consistently spelt a brewery's name wrong, so I'll take with a pinch of salt their words.

I've never looked so much like a shoplifter than when I see myself on these cams.

I quite liked the sweetcorn flavour crisps - like buttered corn on the cob - but can't settle on one flavour of anything for long & must try new things. These are pretty much exactly as you'd think they taste & are fine.

That's because the law forbids cruel & unusual punishments.

#homebrew Vienna Saison. Vienna malt, invert sugar syrup, Bobek hops, Saison yeast. 6.5%. Spicy, tastes of invert syrup even though it's quite dry & has a gentle tang of lactic acid.

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Bit blowy at Ravenglass this morning.

I had one commercial beer tonight - Ossett Excelsius. Does exactly what it says on the tin; hoppy pale ale. Gentle & not too bitter, but big on a pine resinous hoppiness. I like this a lot.

This one is #homebrew lager. It's very subtle, so there's no hiding place for defects. There's a little diacetyl & hardly any bitterness or hops, but certainly drinkable.

read all your "jokes" about the clocks changing, that's an hour of my life I will get back

Wheat beer this time. Sweetish, definitely wheaty, hazy, English ale levels of carbonation. Good stuff.

Ooh I like this. Nicely hoppy & bitter like a traditional IPA. I can't place the hops though - something modern. Could drink this all night.

A good ordinary bitter made by a colleague. A little caramel crystal malt & decent bitterness. Good drinking beer.

This is *not* one of the few good examples. It says "bright, crisp...clean" & it is none of these things. There's a modest yeast bite & gentle diacetyl taste to it. £3+ for a can from Asda when I could have had a much superior Veltins for half that.

I had previously thought L7 had only one song I liked - Pretent We're Dead - but a colleague mentioned this & it's a good angry shouty song. As opposed to all those gentle ballads they sang obviously. youtu.be/1PURNgMLOqA?...

Been to Asda in the big smoke of Carlizzle this morning to get stuff you can't get in the pokey little supermarkets in the Cumbrian Riviera of Cockermouth.

Remember to get all of your unnecessary journeys out the way before the storm hits.

I also have a British pilsener to test whether I should give up on British lager altogether, as the few good examples can are matched by mass produced, miles cheaper imports.

Tonight I have the most interesting category of beer to drink - someone else's homebrew.

Ha.

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

German lager night. I love Schlenkerla Rauchbier, but it so rich & intense I'm not sure I'd want two in the same week.

Storm Sweep is a name that hasn't been used yet.

Drinking #homebrew Bergamot Witbier this evening - of which I still have plenty left under the stairs.

My latest #homebrew is opened this evening: Vienna Saison. 100% Vienna malt, 100% Bobek hops in the boil only. WHC Farmhouse Vibes yeast. Suitably weird, peppery & a little lactic. Nice enough right now, but maybe it needs another week or so conditioning.

Over an hour until sunrise, looking towards Skiddaw & Bassenthwaite.

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But it turns out I've done this one as well Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11432354 From the 'Kids TV Horror' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/kidstvhorror/popular/ #KidsTVHorror

Not starting the day with this, I forgot to mention it last night. As I've said many times: NA beer isn't a substitute for beer, but for overly sweet soft drinks. As such this is quite nice grapefruit flavoured pop.

I found that The Substance was on the iPlayer & watched it. It's not subtle at all & a bit crap. I kept thinking "well it's not supposed to be reality, it's all metaphor for the showbiz industry", but that wears thin quickly. I did persevere to the end though & I needn't have bothered.

An old favourite from YouTube tonight.

Although sweet - no lactose or oats on the label though - I really like this heavy, pine resinous, milk chocolatey beer.

You lookin' at my bird? Lovely isn't it?

Good afternoon from an impossibly blue Wastewater.

I've still got a few bottles of #homebrew Bergamot Witbier left. A mistake due to getting the wrong yeast - it was supposed to be a heffe - has turned out well. Much more bitter & hoppy than a Witbier stereotypically should be, but I don't want to brew what I can buy cheaply in the shops.

My very last bottle of NZ Brut IPA. Ever since I drank Burning Sky's Sauvin Brut IPA I've been making this periodically.

Driving northwest there was a great sun pillar just after sunset. It was just about there on my drive home, so stopped but it doesn't show up on the pic. Still a nice post-sunset sky though looking towards Maryport from Dearham.

Go to your camera roll, search boat and post a picture you like. This has always made me smile. Chemists everywhere will know the element bromine's name derives from the ancient Greek bromos meaning stench.

Reminded today of this all-timer from the early days of The Internet

Czech Pilsner from Lidl for £1.69. Nothing wrong with this beer at all. Tastes like a stereotypical Czech lager. If I were to have a gathering I'd happily buy a tonne of these.

A classic like the VW Beetle or the London Underground map. Fruity, but without being sweet. Easy drinking & just lovely.

Probably my second favourite lager. I like its bold flavour. Loads of fresh cut grassy hoppiness. It is to Pils what IPA is to bitter.

As soon as I tasted the Lost And Grounded Keller Pils it reminded me of Veltins. One is £3.50 for a 440ml can in Booths & one is £1.50 a 500ml can. Clean, dry, bitter, gentle grassy Noble hoppiness. I'm a big fan of this mass market German beer.

Had to take the car for a run to charge the battery after it hadn't moved in a fortnight. Went along Route A66 & ended up at Booth's in Keswick. In a differently sane moment I spent money on some beers.

Beery folk bang on about this being the business & they are right. Dry, clean, bitter, gentle noble hop character & looking at the ingredients; water, barley malt, hops & yeast.