After a weekend of drunken Eurovision nonsense beer couldn't be further from my mind. But I'm determined to keep going. Another thing I've noticed is that I need to organise my notes and photos better, I've just spent an hour looking through my computer for a photo of a beer that I know I've drunk, but may have to buy another one just to get a picture. The lengths I go to for you folks...
Stouterik (Belgium)
Europeans don't generally make much stout, and after trying this you have to wonder why that is. This Belgian effort is really good. It isn't as strong as some of the imperial ones, but the taste is up there with the best of them. It also makes a nice change for the Belgians to make some normal beer, rather than making some insanely strong weirdness out of wheat and pears, or some such.
Old Stock Ale (USA)
Brutal. Absolutely brutal. Although I expected nothing else from an ale that weighs in at 11.7%. It's a strange one because it looks like a regular red ale. But they cranked the volume up to 11 on it. So it definitely packs a wallop, both in terms of flavour and the effect it will have on your thought process.
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