Beer, Braai and the New Year
My daughter, gave me this gift-pack of beer for Christmas, she just know how to make her dad's day. So one week later on New Year's Eve, we had some friends and family over for a nice big braai!! What better way to go into the new year than to test my Christmas Present, while socializing with fiends and family!! In the photo below you can see the gift-pack that consisted of two beers and a beer glass.
As you can see on the photo, at the top of this post, we had a hot fire going for the braai and all this heat made me really thirsty!! I decided to go for the Beardo IPA first. Both the beers are brewed by Robinsons Brewery in the UK.
I loved the graphics on the Beardo bottle!!
The beer comes in a 330ml bottle and sports a 6% alcohol content.
The beer poured nicely, with a beautiful amber color and a great white head. I think father Christmas would like it if his beard could look like that head.
The beer looked great in the glass, and even tasted better in my mouth!! This beer I can drink any time, this was a great beer.
Next up was the Mojo Pale Ale!!
The label looks completely different than the Beardo's. I prefer the Beardo label, but this one is also nice.
The Mojo also came in a 330ml bottle, but had 5.5% alcohol.
The Mojo also poured with a nice head,albeit a bit smaller than the Beardo. The color was more yellowish!! This beer also looked good and tasted ok, but was a bit on the watery side for me, I preferred the Beardo to the Mojo
After testing the beers, the fire was ready and we could braai the meat. We had a variety of meat and had to braai in two sessions to get everything cooked.
Below you can see us eating, my wife set the table on the outside, and we had a great evening socializing as family and friends, waiting for the new year to arrive!!
At midnight we shot the cork from a nice bottle of bubbly and toasted on the new year!! Great!!
I took these photos with my iPhone,at my home, in Pretoria, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as I did taking it.
Great.... you have a very smart daughter who knows all your taste ;)
never seen such stunning beer before. impressive experience @rynow
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Thank you so much, I loved the beardo beer!!
Awesome!
Two great looking beers and an even better looking grill!
Cheers
Yes, it was great!!
If you think beer is solely reserved for those balmy summer days next to the braai, think again. As the autumn chill starts to grip the air, there’s no need to loosen your grip on your beer.
You are right, we won't slow down!!
Cheers~~~Again awesome beer post by @rynow
Thank you so much!
That is so good for you...
Enjoy @rynow
Thank you.
These pictures is clear! I do like this bear . Thanks for posting >>> @rynow
Thank you so much.
It looks as though you had a fantastic time, there is nothing better than a braai fire, good beer and interesting conversation, my family came all the way from New Zealand, having them all together for the first time in ten years was a blessing.
That must have been great!! It is always nice to spend time with family.
We love visiting craft breweries, hubby enjoys a good ale, nice seeing so many micro breweries springing up all over SA :)Very nice photos & post @rynow, love those labels! My son is very much into craft beer, produces his own on tap beer. He holds brew days with his friends, quite a sociable but also serious event. They are very knowledgeable on the qualities a good beer should have and pull up their noses at the SAB brands, could call them beer snobs :)
Yes, it is great, does your son, sell his beer, and if he does where?
For real that beardo beer has the coolest bottle ever. That already is a collectors item. And braai, lekker braaien!!! Mjam!!!
What kind of temperatures do you guys have at the moment during summer there?
Today was very hot in Pretoria at over 30 degrees Celsius, and the minimum is around 17 degrees.
The braai was great.
Very beautiful temperatures actually. That it cools off in the night, perfect sleepingtemperatures.. and that you have to wear a sweater during braai-ing
Nice.
Your daughter is smart.
Enjoy Enjoy @rynow
She really is!!
It's always a joy to try a new beer and braai is a new word for me. You sure are blessed with nice weather in your part of the world!
Yes we have great weather, and braai is just Afrikaans for Barbecue. It actually becomes a bit to hot at times, and we almost never have snow or minus temperatures.
Thank you for commenting.
There is no better way to enter a new year than with family and friends. Thanks for sharing your life with us @rynow
You are right, it was great!
A great way to start the new year. You guys really had fun.
We really had fun!!
How nice to receive gifts from your favorite children, you have a great holiday. Thank you for the nice posts.
Thank you very much, we had a great time.
It's an excellent drink that makes the fire burn inside the body
It's excellent in this cold
Thank you for sharing. @rynow
Here by us it is summer, but I agree, it is great for winter and summer!!
A wonderful meeting and a barbecue for a delicious beer, I was sure it was amazing! Thank you @rynow
Yes, we had a great time!!
Amazing post!!
Cheers 🍻
Thank you.
loved the beer name quite nice pics :)
Thank you very much!
beautiful post
Thank you so much.
Great pictures. I could notice your brother in the picture wearing a white shirt. The rest has to be family and friends. A very nice photo.
It is mostly my wife's brothers and their spouses.
Lovely family get together. Look at all those food and drinks. Am falling in love with the lighthing. It's so beautiful. Thank you
Yes, it really was great!!
Family and friends, always the best company around. I so like this family union. Awesome.
Yes, it was great!!
Wow, look at that long table filled with family and friends. I love the warm environment around the whole table. So lovely.
Yes, it was amazing!
Best beer experience ever. Excellent photography~
Thank you so much!!
This is my first time of seeing a beer with such artistic design. I love the drawings on it. My regards to your family.
Thank you so much, yes these beers have interesting label designs!!
Awesome. I so love time spent with family. To me it's the best time a person can ever have.
Agreed, we must spent time together as families!!
Look at that meat and braai, it's so inviting. You sure had a great time with your family. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, we really had a great time.
The meat looks great. I love them. The beers was really nice. I guess the ladies took the watery ones like you said :).
Thanks for posting. You really have a great family.
The ladies mostly had wine!! We really had a great time.
Nice get together. What better way can one spend the new year aside from family union. I love thw relationship going on in the pic. Everyone definitely had a nice time. Glad you shared with us
Thanks for the nice comment, we really had a great time.
Am glad to see you and your family having this special time with all the eating and drinking. God be praised.
Thank you so much for the nice comment, we really had a great time.
a lovely evening with your loved ones :)
@rynow
We really had a great time.
hot hot food in the mid night and friends the best thing :)
amazing post rynow thanks for sharing
Thank you so much we had an amazing time.
I Agree!
Beautiful daughter,nice pictures.
Thank you so much, for the nice comment.
@rynow - Oh Sir, it's a new type of beer... I like it nice experience you shared Sir...
+W+
Thank you so much, it was a great evening!
(In case I missed you) Lekker braai, lekker beer, awesome time for outdoors to see a new year in.Happy New Year @rynow
Found your post on #beersaturday with friend @detlev
Thank you so much.
Ek hoop ook dat jy 'n fantastiese 2018 sal he. Alles was heerlik!!
it looks really amazing to start the day off with awesome pics
Yes, we had an amazing evening!!
You're awesome.
new year eve was a rocking one it seems to be enjoyed the pics so much thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for the great comment.
Seems like perfect time spent with family !
You are right, we had a great time.
Nice table with amazing people around good way to celebrate :)
Yes, it was amazing!!
You all just enjoyed the best new year eve wonderful this is kind of amazing post
Yes, we enjoyed each others company a lot.
Cheers! @rynow
Cheers!!
The graphics were super lit but the party with all together was more amazing
Yes, we had a great time together.
Looks a great beer to have any day anytime :)
Yes, it was real good.
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Thank you so much.
Wow! this is so terrible gift as i seen, burn of fire make the gift as magnificent
I loved the beers!!
As beer looking so gorgeous in glass and also will be so testy @rynow
Yes, it looked good and tasted great!!
the glass and the beer wow just made my day amazing i hope you too have an amazing day thanks for sharing
We had a great day together!
Those pics were really clear, knowing you took it at night. Family time is really important to me, and am happy you enjoyed it. So Kool.
Yes, it is always great to spend time together as a family.