[Closed] Craft Beer club

I'm a member of beerbods, have been for more than 2 years. I really enjoy it.

Beerbods. Simple choice.

Beerbods is the one I'd join if I was looking for one.

Looks much better than the others. Cheers for this, will most definitely be looking to join this one.

Yup Beerbods.

I have probably got a discount code for beerbods if you want. I think it gets you 1 week off.

Try ZFXQWT when you sign up.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home? We have so many craft brewers here in Lancs that I'd rather just ride to a pub with a pal or two.

Another vote for Beerbods here. Halfway through my third box and enjoying trying a different beer each Thursday.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home?

Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.

Surely beer is for enjoying in a social context, not at home? We have so many craft brewers here in Lancs that I'd rather just ride to a pub with a pal or two.

And when you can't do that?

Another vote for Beerbods. I've been a subscriber since 'the early days' and they're superb.

They're even getting my girlfriend keen to try any new beers!

+1 more for Beerbods - you couldn't wish for better service or friendlier folks!

I do wonder though where this hipster 'craft beer' movement will end up - there are so many folks brewing now, how sustainable will it be? Is there real skill involved anymore? Will it end up like the gazillion 'artisanal' coffee suppliers, many of whom seem to do no more than re-packaging/marketing?

Even the big boys are brewing small batch beers now to 'catch the wave' 🙂

I'll enjoy it whilst it lasts though!

It'll be many years before I get bored with the range offered in the local Booths - and for substantially less than £3 a bottle too 🙂

£3 a bottle!
Craft beer is definitely jumping the shark right now

brew it yourself, much easier than you think. I do find it quite easy to go through 40 pints all too quickly though :cry:[img] [/img]

I have a home brew shop 2 minutes from my house. I have had varying degrees of success with the kits. Although I did make a nettle beer last year which was very tasty! for about 20 pints, it cost me £4. Bargain.

Theres something about the term "craft beer" that makes my teeth itch....
Don't get me wrong, I like it lots, its the hipsterification that gets on my wick. Oh and there are other beer varieties other than IPAs, but thats something else.

Oh and there are other beer varieties other than IPAs, but thats something else.

Yup. Luckily microbreweries know this too.

£3 a bottle dream on!

For anybody after a bit of reading to go with there drinking I read this book by a guy who toured Scotland's small breweries a couple of years ago:

[url] http://www.amazon.co.k/Leaf-Paradox-Discovering-Beer-Whisky-ebook/dp/B00DP8S2JU [/url]

Brew your own, all grain of course. Kits are OK, I have done about 5 but although drinkable, most still have a HB twang.

Great fun and loads of info out there.

Craft beer 😥 Whatever happened to nice decent beer, rather than all this mostly minging pish. Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again, but oh no, now with a bit of marketing they can sell you something minging at a premium price. 👿

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.

WTF? I mean really.... [b]WTF?[/b] What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

I do wonder though where this hipster 'craft beer' movement will end up - there are so many folks brewing now, how sustainable will it be? Is there real skill involved anymore? Will it end up like the gazillion 'artisanal' coffee suppliers, many of whom seem to do no more than re-packaging/marketing?

Ah, where to begin with this 🙂

What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

I know. Next people will be discussing such things on a forum on the internet.

WTF? What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

Ohhh the ironing! 🙂

globalti - Member
Beerbods adds the social context via Twitter and Instagram.
WTF? I mean really.... WTF? What has Society come to when typing twaddle on a cellphone is considered to be an acceptable substitute for sitting down with some friends for a good yarn?

Kinda awkward when my friends live in different countries, and work different hours. Either way, we all enjoy our things differently. Maybe I don't like sitting in a pub listening to other people talk shite? Maybe I'd rather sit, with my wife and enjoy a beer on a Thursday before I go to bed.

Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again

Surely this takes away the best bit about buying beer which is standing in front of an enormous wall of bottles and trying to pretend that you know enough to pick on anything other than which label you like the most?

could say that about wine

Or bikes.

bikes have a bit more tactility about them, I don't usually ride wine but the beer tries to every now and again

could say that about wine

The process is very similar but the character I try to present to any other customers or staff who may glance my way is very different. With wine I try to appear aloof and discerning - slide my glasses down my nose, jut out the top teeth and read bottles at arms length. With beer I try to give the impression that once I've appraised the selection my choices will be obvious. More of a manly impulsiveness.

It's hard work when I have to buy both from the same shop.

Craft beer Whatever happened to nice decent beer, rather than all this mostly minging pish. Case in point there was one the other day that tasted of gherkins, like WTF?! Before this silly trend the brewery would have binned it and started again, but oh no, now with a bit of marketing they can sell you something minging at a premium price.

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

Enjoy your Tetley's Smoothflow grandad.

I’ve begun to wonder whether anything could pop this bubble, and what I think about is the force that held back middle-class beer snobbery to begin with: the fixed prejudice against real ale. No matter how many demographic surveys Cask Marque produced, no matter how many Sumerian wheat goddesses Camra dug up for its marketing, for most people real ale still meant nerdy old men with beards. Craft beer, by contrast, means nerdy young men with beards. And while nerds have a great deal more cultural capital than they used to, young men continue to grow old. Within a few years, the craft beer boom may seem as difficult to separate from the ridiculous fashions of the 2010s as the real ale boom was from the fashions of the 1970s. If we’re lucky, it will leave as many enjoyable new flavours behind.

This is what worries me, once the hipsters have moved on to Nepalese tea beer made with Himalayan wild yeast and quadruple-fermented with white mountain goats phlegm, where does it leaving the craft / micro-brewing industry?

Obviously it will continue, but i suspect when demand lessens there will be casualties.

not so long back you would struggle to find real ale in pubs because the brewers, the big ones at least, saw to much hassle and cost in supplying what the punter wanted. then the government saw sense and stepped in, gave a tax relief on small brewers and hey presto..where we are today - no more stale lager but finally real ale even in the big pub chains. it's not always perfect but it's better than fruit based drink for the ladies.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird.

I have a home brew shop 2 minutes from my house. I have had varying degrees of success with the kits.

yeah, that can happen. some kits are better than others. None of them are a patch on brewing your own beer from scratch (IMO)

in terms of equipment, it's a one-off spend of about £200 for a boiler, a chiller (optional but very handy), a mesh bag and a fermenter or two. After that you're only paying for your ingredients. a typical 40 pint 4% batch of traditional bitter will cost about a tenner in grains & hops, and a couple of quid for a sachet of yeast. And it's not difficult to do; time consuming, yes, difficult, no.

I struggle to see how people who like interesting/decent beers can have a problem with the current situation. Choice of decent beers in pubs now is better than it's ever been in my lifetime - and some people can still only look at the negatives. Weird.

Exactly. No longer is the choice of beer 3 or 4 taps of fizzy shite lager, Guiness and maybe something resembling an ale if you're lucky. Forget the image of who drinks what and focus on the important bit - the beer.

As for £3 a bottle, jog on.

If I buy three bottles for a fiver from Morrisons, that's £1.67 a bottle. If I then packaged and posted it to myself it would add to that price. And I'd still only have a bottle of a beer that I'd probably had before.

Or I could call into a pub on my way home from work, and pay more than £3 for a pint.

So, £3 a bottle starts to seem better value once you add in transport costs and the discovery of new beers and breweries?

I have just signed up; so looking forward to all those tasty beers.

And here is a code I have just received, so if anyone else decides to sign up; GVSDZN