Craft Beer club

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

We’re feeling the love here at BeerBods[/url]. Thanks!

gordon
employee 002 and 1/4 of BeerBods

evilgordon – good luck with your site.

However, although I love my beer, brew all grain, drink everything from cooking lager, Belgian 9% stuff, “proper” ales and American IPA’s. There is just too much guff on that site, I mean –

It’s the kind of beer that you’d interrupt a good dog walk for on a Spring day. It’s not particularly challenging, but there is a time and place for everything, especially a well made English pale bitter.

Really? It’s like a cross between Alan Partridge and Innocent smoothies.

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

Therein lies the rub, we’ve got regional differences. Three quid for a bottle is ~60p more than I’d expect to pay for a pint at a local. Which shifts the question to be one of “is this service worth paying a premium for?” It’s a bit different if you’re used to paying London bar prices, the bottle delivery is positively bargainous in comparison then.

All of our subscribers drink the same beer (just one) every week.

How do you know this? I like the idea of the club, but I know I’ll get back in from a ride and just grab a bottle or two. 🙂

Enjoy your Tetley’s Smoothflow grandad.

Get to ****. I’ll stick with Landlord, Brains, Cairngorm, Spitfire etc. 🙂

Therein lies the rub, we’ve got regional differences. Three quid for a bottle is ~60p more than I’d expect to pay for a pint at a local.

I drink in Darlington, so it’s not exactly Kent prices 🙂

I paid £1.90 for a pint of Strongarm the other Saturday, but it was in The Scary Pub By The Station (made famous by Scott Mills[/url]) and, you know, it was Strongarm. The town centre Wetherspoons is also about £2 a pint, but independent pubs in the centre[/url] are more than £3 a pint.

Get to ****. I’ll stick with Landlord, Brains, Cairngorm, Spitfire etc.

Landlord was about £14 for four pints in York the other weekend, so £3.50 a pint…

I had a pint of Devils Backbone IPA for £3 and a Bath Gem for £2.50 in Wetherspoons in Tonbridge, KENT.

So it all depends where you drink.

and, you know, it was Strongarm.

Cameron’s? That was the very beer which converted me from a lager drinker.

I was working away (in Dudley I think) and succumbed to peer pressure as I was the only one of the group not drinking ‘proper’ beer. I have very fond memories of Cameron’s Strongarm, but never found it since to see whether the (beer) glasses are rose-tinted.

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

this^
i like a well made traditional ‘brown’ pint of bitter, i’ll also have a southern hemisphere hopped citrussy pale ale or an american interpretation of a Belgian saison. more choice is good and life is too short for crap beer when theres the Kernel india export porter and beavertown neck oil session IPA in the fridge.
both are unconventionally packaged which probably grates with the shepard neame/youngs drinker but thats just a bonus 😉 flavour is everything.

Oooh! That reminds me I found a couple bottles of Anarchy beers I’d forgotten about his afternoon.

I’m in…

NVDHTK code for someone else to get a free week

i couldn’t stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

i couldn’t stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

If it was a crate of twelve a week, I might be in for it. 🙂

I can only imagine the twitter feed…

i couldn’t stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

Don’t think this is mandatory RD :lol:, I would just like introducing to some new beers, I’ll drink them when I fancy it.

i couldn’t stick to only drinking the beer on thursdays for the community tasting bit with beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc.

They don’t make you sign an exclusivity contract, so it’s possible to buy beer elsewhere to drink on the other six nights of the week.

I stick with the Thursday because I teach an evening class that night and it’s a nice way to round off a 13 hour day at work.

beerbods, seems too regimented for beer drinking, so on that basis etc..

Don’t think this is mandatory RD :lol:, I would just like introducing to some new beers, I’ll drink them when I fancy it.
no, i know, but thats the point of beerbods isn’t it, you all taste it together and compare notes etc? otherwise I might as well pop to my local bottled beer specialist voted best bottled beer store in England and pick up a variety there for less £

no, i know, but thats the point of beerbods isn’t it, you all taste it together and compare notes etc?

You could drink them and keep notes on another night, shhhh! EvilGordon is listening.

If people want to pay £3 a bottle for beer to come in the post then good luck to them.

You can pay that much for a cup of mucky hot water in many coffee shops.

I prefer to stock up at the supermarket for a quid or 1.50 a bottle and I drink tea personally.

its the hipsterification that gets on my wick

Ignore it – who gives a F what others think?

I’ve been drinking beer since I was 14 & I’m damned if 3 decades later I’m going to be put off drinking ale just because its become KOOL…

Minor hijack, but probably quite relevant…does anyone know of somewhere I can buy some Stone Brewing Co. Double Bastard?

Dunno, but I’m sold on their entire product line.

Mind you, I made that mistake with Brewdog.

I’ve been drinking beer since I was 14 & I’m damned if 3 decades later I’m going to be put off drinking ale just because its become KOOL

Shut up & get your round in Drac you young whippet!

80 /- Yeah?

Hmmmmmm.
Too much insider info for me to make a constructive comment.
As long as its great beer its OK , but its alot more than I would ever spend on bottled beers.

Sorry the club doesn’t sell that. They have John Smiths that’s like a southern beer.

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.

Spot on.

Drac – Moderator
80 /- Yeah?

You’re only allowed to order it if you can pronounce it.

(And you only should be ordering it if it’s Caledonian rather than McEwans).

Now I want a beer and I’ve got red wine instead.

Minor hijack, but probably quite relevant…does anyone know of somewhere I can buy some Stone Brewing Co. Double Bastard?

They had some in Bottledog on Grays Inn Road yesterday I think, they had some Stone beers there for sure, plus I definitely picked up a bottle at Christmas.

Have you tried it? It’s rank. And that’s from someone who likes strong IPAs.

Sixpoint Brewery Bengali Tiger.
Wetherspoons £2 a can (I know craft ale in a can!) Bloody wonderful stuff.

Struggling with commercial bottled beers at the mo they all taste a bit bland. Are they pasteurised? That must kill some of the flavour.

Also me and my mates are making our own beer nowadays, making some real ‘hop bombs’ between us.

Next time you’re in the Surrey Hills and you have to pop into Dorking for bike parts why don’t you cross the road to Cobbetts Real Ale Shop and Micropub. Reasonably priced and excellent beer in Surrey!

Drac – Moderator

Sorry the club doesn’t sell that. They have John Smiths that’s like a southern beer.
How dare you suggest John Smiths is a beer. Bloody weirdo.

Oh and its 80 shilling. Belhaven or Broughton please!