14th May 2012

Summer has almost arrived here in Finland, you can tell by the amount of wind and rain. Sometimes all you can do is drink beer to cheer yourself up. And remember to like the blog's Facebook page

Meantime London Stout (England)

London is the real home of stout, no matter what the Irish want you to think. This is a good example of good old English stout. You know when you have a box of chocolates and there's those dark chocolate coffee flavoured things that no one eats? This tastes like those. But I don't mind because I like those chocolates. This stout is a little more gentle on the tastebuds than its Irish counterparts.

St. Bernadus Abt 12 (Belgium)

When I poured this I thought they'd accidentally filled my bottle with gravy. It tasted boozy, like boozy Belgian gravy. The taste was nice and strong though, which I liked, although the weird bits of something threatened to put me off drinking the last few drops. That rapping pope chap on the bottle seems happy with it though, I suspect that isn't his first glass of this 10% ale.