Although more of a gin man these days, I must try out this 'craft beer' place along the road from me in Bernard Street, Leith: http://www.growlerbeersuk.com/
Anyone use / recommend them?
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Similar but different
Posted 9 years ago # -
Their super strong cider. Used to be 7.2% but I think has been cut back to 6.6. Anyway, a few too many of those and I took a swim in the water of Leith.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@chdot - A reason for not harrumphing that the country is going to the dogs is the plethora of new craft breweries. A couple of decades ago a decadent generation were drowning themselves in multi-national lager. Glad to see the young 'uns are pulling their socks up.
One grouse though is the "citrus notes" that are so popular in the new ales, make half of them taste like grapefruit.
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"@chdot - A reason for not harrumphing that the country is going to the dogs is the plethora of new craft breweries"
I'm not harrumphing either, but clearly "the country" is going to the dogs' brexit and extra choice of not-warm beer won't compensate!
Posted 8 years ago # -
Although more of a gin man these days
I don't drink much but I had an Edinburgh gin flavoured with seaside botanicals last summer and it was really very good indeed to the point I would prefer it to craft beer.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I got a Xmas present of the Eden Mill Hops Gin - very very good.
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Who can explain the gin explosion? I love the one from Islay The Botanist but I would judge it is ten times more expensive than the litre bottle of larios I bought in a supermarket in fuengirola in 1997.
Now if using it as cologne and dabbing it behind your ear then yes, the botanist wins but if putting a slice of lime and some ice in it and topping up with Schweppes. Larios is lovely.
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All I can say Gembo is that it was the best G&T I've ever had. Was it worth nearly £5? No.
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Madame IWRATS got a bottle of Caorrun from my old man at Christmas. It contains 'eleven locally foraged Celtic botanicals' which I'm hoping include bog myrtle, Scots pine, bracken and fly agaric.
Will it be better than my favourite which is - whisper it, hipsters - Gordons?
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Who can explain the gin explosion?
Well, it is really easy to make. Loads of whisky distilleries have a gin still on the side which they only have to fire up for a few weeks a year for a cash injection.
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Like most newcomers, his drink sells at roughly twice the price of big-brand gin. It seeks to cash in on the fad among “millennials” for traceable craft-made products, rather than big-name stuff.
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So fashion and marketing (in the widest sense).
Some similarities with the 'hand built bike' world.
Longer term, will the fashionistas move to other things, peak gin (distilleries) will be reached, small players will be bought by established ones, new ones become multinationals?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Having drunk Gordon's for years I have now been seduced into buying pricey gins and squashing fruit into them.
Posted 8 years ago # -
i know the whisky distilleries are all churning the stuff out. what i am pondering is why the hipsters are suddenly in to mother's ruin? my daughter gave me the ladybird guide to the hipster which goes some way to explain (Nevin is a beard photographer, here he is in the arctic circle taking pictures of norwegian fishermen's beards etc)
Neither am I complaining, I like gin. With tonic. or if crabbies left over from winter with crabbies and ice in the summer a most refreshing cocktail which I call The Juniper Green
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a most refreshing cocktail which I call The Juniper Green
This better not be a joke. You know we're all going to try it this summer. What am I talking about I'm trying it tomorrow.
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One and a half parts gin, one part crabbies, maybe an ice cube or two happy days.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Who can explain the gin explosion?
I understand that there is (was?) a glut of distilled spirit in the drinks industry market (perhaps a few years ago), which meant it was rather cheap. Unless you're wanting to apply the London Dry Gin label you can flavour any sort of spirit with juniper and call it gin, so it was a good thing to get into. That flexibility also means you can do a lot of hip stuff with it.
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I can understand the gin thing, as it happened to me.
As a young man if I drank spirits it was rum (inevitably OVD and coke) or vodka (with orange or coke).
From late 20s for about ten years or so I preferred whisky. A decent blend (with water or sometimes Irn Bru) or a variety of single malts - Highland Park is my favourite.
After a spate of drinking mostly red wine or sparkling white (cava or champagne, not really into prosecco) I went off whisky completely. Now if I drink spirits it's almost invariably gin (and tonic).
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To sum up my gin thoughts - The gin palaces of London in the 18th century were all the rage. Then in the 19th century all The Raj when someone worked out that the tonic water for malaria was more palatable with gin in it? The queen mum drank a whole loch of tanqueray brand gin. Then in 1980s Bombay sapphire came in a blue bottle. Still all ticking along, maybe slice of lime rather than lemon if you were being outre. The youth were concentrating on vodka. In about 2000, johnnie walker / grants whisky down in Kilmarnock produced Hendricks ŵith its distinctive brown bottle and the idea you drank it with a slice of cucumber. This won medals at the gin Olympics. Still really only 35 plus age group drinking gin. But the youth tired of vodka, dabbled with rum and have now grown beards and opened craft beer bars (just real ale with a different name) and gin joints (just gin, no doubt just gin). So marketing is a big factor.
Glut of distilled spirit maybe left over from the vodka boom? And a sea change in the distilleries? Previously only willing to consider whisky now all making gin.?
Once the hipsters start shaving again (I think peak beard was 2015) should mean a lot of nice cheap gin for me to enjoy. I have never had much of a hangover off it but the old wives tale about it making you maudlin is true for me so I usually only have one or two.
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And a sea change in the distilleries? Previously only willing to consider whisky now all making gin.?
I believe this is partly it; more people are setting up small distilleries, but because you can't sell any whisky for ~8 years, they also make gin to get the ball rolling.
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Also observed that in Ireland there are a lot more malt whiskeys than there used to be. For example one of the greatest pubs of all time the Palace Bar in Dublin has an upstairs devoted to whiskey.
Posted 8 years ago # -
that doesn't look like a motorcycle to me!
Posted 8 years ago # -
not sure there has been any actual drought, just that the beer has come from Fountainpark?
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"not sure there has been any actual drought"
You expect FACTS in a newspaper??
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Only alternative facts these days
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"Only alternative facts these days"
That's a fact.
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