For fathers' day this year my daughter bought me some beers from breweries in Portsmouth. You may notice a dinosaur theme going on. I have been saving these until I recovered a bit from COVID so I could taste them better, although I did not really lose my sense of taste.
I cannot see this one on the Staggeringly Good Brewery site, so it may have been a limited eddition. They are giving half the profits to support refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. This is a terrible campaign by the Russian leadership that is affecting millions of innocent people.
The ingredients are pretty minimal in what they call a New England IPA. There have been a few of those over here lately. There was one called East Coast from Greene King that I used to drink at the local pub. I find them very refreshing and great for this current hot weather. It is a pretty strong one at 5.8%.
Beer goes well with pizza and we had one with some garlic mushrooms and doughballs. That is garlic dip on the plate too. The beer has a good head and is quite cloudy, as you would expect when it is unfiltered. Yes, we do have cookies too!
It is a good one. Slightly sweet and I had to have it cold. Just what I needed. I think it is fairly hoppy, but I do not mind that. I would say it has a bit of 'body' to it. Life is too short for bland beers.
Cheers!
Nice gift for Father's day. That's cool that they are donating to refugees. That's nice to hear.
What makes a beer a New England IPA? How is it different than just a regular IPA?
I think it's down to how they brew it. They may use particular hop varieties. There are lots of different IPAs.
Okay I see. Interesting
That pizza seems amazing, but man! that gift from your daugther is just another level
I have great kids. My son got me chocolate, so I was happy.
Really great Father's Day gift, those.
The packaging of these beers, I love it, it's really artistic and fun but I think that would make it really attractive to children/minors and that's quite not good.
A lot of beers have fun packaging these days to try and stand out. We do have strict laws about kids buying it though. They might be looking for cheaper alcohol anyway.
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Drink More beer and help Ukrainian people.
I'll try my best.
I see your account says you are in London, but you never seem to post. Can you post something to prove where you are? We have to watch out for fake accounts.
Next Weekend i planning to post on my account.
I hope the beer taste really nice
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