. Favourite Beer of The Week
Today I cleaned the fridge. It's a big fridge and it takes a long time to clean.
While I was cleaning it, Nif was at the Berkeley Bowl grocery store buying beer (and some other stuff).
She was in the chutney aisle, examining chutneys, when some criminal type stole her shopping cart. She found it much later, two aisles away, recklessly abandoned beside the organic Zinfandels. Only when she got home did she realize that the perpetrator had made off with the bottle of Grand Teton Sheep Eater Scotch Ale that she had very kindly picked up for me. Grand Teton make "Howling Wolf" which as I'm sure you will recall, was my favourite beer on last year's favourite things of the year list.
Fortunately, the dirty shopping-trolly joy-rider did not rob the bottle of BrewDog Punk IPA that Nif had also picked up.
BrewDog is a Scottish brewery that make the 41% abv "Sink the Bismark IPA," a beer recommended to me by our good friend Erik Marr, who also promised to visit us this summer with his lovely family. Let's hope they follow through on that promise and don't leave us lonely and disappointed.
Punk IPA is a welcome change from all the strong beers I've been drinking recently. It's only 6% abv. But very flavourful. And very colourful. And very lacy, as they say in the beer world when they are describing the frothy bits that stick to the side of the glass, I think.
It came third in the Scottish division of the supermarket chain-store Tesco's 2008 World Beer Cup.
These days Tesco owns most of Britain. One pound in every seven spent in UK retailers is spent in Tesco. That's £1,117 every second.
Three years from now, Tesco plan to expand into Denmark.
Also today, I made Moussaka.
I've never made it before, and I think it came out okay. We didn't have any arrowroot powder for the pine-nut cream topping, but cornstarch seemed to do the trick. I think arrowroot might be cornstarch for the rich and famous.
You can find it in the baking aisle of a Tesco near you.
Just keep an eye on your cart.
And clean your fridge. It's filthy.
While I was cleaning it, Nif was at the Berkeley Bowl grocery store buying beer (and some other stuff).
She was in the chutney aisle, examining chutneys, when some criminal type stole her shopping cart. She found it much later, two aisles away, recklessly abandoned beside the organic Zinfandels. Only when she got home did she realize that the perpetrator had made off with the bottle of Grand Teton Sheep Eater Scotch Ale that she had very kindly picked up for me. Grand Teton make "Howling Wolf" which as I'm sure you will recall, was my favourite beer on last year's favourite things of the year list.
Fortunately, the dirty shopping-trolly joy-rider did not rob the bottle of BrewDog Punk IPA that Nif had also picked up.
BrewDog is a Scottish brewery that make the 41% abv "Sink the Bismark IPA," a beer recommended to me by our good friend Erik Marr, who also promised to visit us this summer with his lovely family. Let's hope they follow through on that promise and don't leave us lonely and disappointed.
Punk IPA is a welcome change from all the strong beers I've been drinking recently. It's only 6% abv. But very flavourful. And very colourful. And very lacy, as they say in the beer world when they are describing the frothy bits that stick to the side of the glass, I think.
It came third in the Scottish division of the supermarket chain-store Tesco's 2008 World Beer Cup.
These days Tesco owns most of Britain. One pound in every seven spent in UK retailers is spent in Tesco. That's £1,117 every second.
Three years from now, Tesco plan to expand into Denmark.
Also today, I made Moussaka.
I've never made it before, and I think it came out okay. We didn't have any arrowroot powder for the pine-nut cream topping, but cornstarch seemed to do the trick. I think arrowroot might be cornstarch for the rich and famous.
You can find it in the baking aisle of a Tesco near you.
Just keep an eye on your cart.
And clean your fridge. It's filthy.
Labels: beer
posted by anthony at
7:00 PM
2 Comments:
yay!!! scottish beer!!!
i shall have to try that
Let's try a "Sink the Bismark."
We might be able to finish it with 4 or 5 other people.
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