Toad in need of a croak

Tyskie

Cheap lager from Czech Republic (i think)

Cheap and not cheerful.

Bland. Like all the lagers you get in pubs. Nothing to recommend it.

Wouldn’t drink it again.

Toad’s Croak

Nor would i drink this again.

Toad’s Croak

Nor would i drink this again.

The only exceptional thing about it is it’s name.

A pale ale.

“Pale ale” as a category for beers doesn’t inspire me. Insipid sounding. The drink of pale spotty filing clerks.

Toads need something stronger, darker, and deeper than this to get them croaking.

I’d have thought.

(Well, this toad does)

Malty beers

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Leffe

A blonde beer from Belgium.

Malty.

It’s quite popular over here.

A couple of bottles would do it.

I’d drink it again.

.£1.05 for 330ml. 6.6%…

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Whitechapel Porter

“Dark ruby roasted malt with spicy hop notes”

It’s an evocative name “Porter”, makes me think of Samuel Pepys. Or other such portly gentleman in wigs.

Drunk in ale-houses and taverns of the early 18th Century by porters who carried luggage and goods throughout London.

Porter quenched the thirst of the Industrial Revolution apparently.

The father of Stout; without it there’d be none of todays Guinness or Murphy’s.

This whitechapel porter was like brown beer. “Ruby” makes it sounder richer than it is. But i liked it. And I like the “stout” looking bottle too. Which is why I’ve pictured it here.

I’m gonna be drinking lots of different beers, ales, stouts lagers, meads, pilsners, bocks, porters in the next months. Not to get pissed. But to enjoy. And write about here.

A little project to savour.

£1.45 for 500 ml. 5.2%