3rd March 2014

So this is the first blog post of 2014, I can but apologise for the delay. It's also my first blog post as a married man. I'm very grateful to have found someone who will tolerate this obsession I have developed for beer. 

Tanglefoot (England)

As you can see, it was Christmas time when I drank this during my almost annual trip to my mum's house in Britain. I had bought a few beers from my book on my previous trip to the UK, this was one of them. Unfortunately that previous trip was 18 months prior to this one, and the one I'd left there had gone all cloudy and weird. So I bought another one just to make sure I didn't poison myself. This is a pretty good beer, tastes a little bit like cream crackers, so would probably go well with a slab of cheddar.  

Köstritzer Schwarzbier (Germany)

Dark lagers are still a bit strange to me. I look at it in the glass and I'm expecting it to taste like a stout or porter. But it doesn't. It tastes like a lager that's been a little bit burned. This toastiness makes them so much more tasty than the generic lagers you buy by the shedload from your local supermarket. This has a smooth, almost creamy mouthfeel, and I can't believe I used the word "mouthfeel", I've been reading too many other beer sites. There's a danger that I'm starting to take this too seriously.