Just had a virtual ācouple of after work beersā with my mate in Germany.
He emigrated last summer and, whilst heās been back a few times, Iāve missed catching up with him, drinking and talking shit.
Tonight we used Zoom to communicate and talked about all the same shit but weād set ourselves the objective of buying some interesting beer for the ācallā.
I chose my current fave Hang Loose by Vocation brewery and a new one to me Love & Hate - also by Vocation (Both stocked by Tesco).
Love & Hate bills itself thus
Traditionalists love beer thatās crystal clear with restrained hops and a delicate flavour - theyāre going to hate this. Love and hate is our juicy, crushable, unapologetically murky New England IPA.
It was fucking ace.
7.2% compared to Hang Looseās 7% and given my notorious inability to drink, Iām plastered.
My mate āchoseā a load of German shit - perforce as opposed to by desire - a Pilsner a Dunkel and something else. I won the weird-beer battle.
Right now I feel like Iāve had a proper beer with an old mate. Beer and Zoom. Fucking fantastic.
Started early with a couple of āthe Botanistā G&Tsā¦ Prosecco with Mrs Mot with our grub ( did a stir fry of load of Pak Choi and noodles with a bit of terikaki beef - still pretty easy to get stuff if you get up at 0600 to be at Tesco when it opens - mind you no pasta or rice which makes me think some folks are going to get very fucking bored of their food choicesā¦ just buy some fucking spuds and veg and stop buying shit pasta sauce in a jar which is full of sugar and salt you fucktardsā¦ but do fresh toms, bit of smoked bacon, garlic, onion and thyme and you are sorted in the time it takes to cook the pastaā¦ )
Anyway, now need a wee dramā¦ have an independent bottling of 13yo Benrinnes Madeira Cask strength at 62.2% just opened ā¦
We are doing family home-cooked takeaway nights at the weekend to teach kid to do more cooking. Tonight is mexican so chicken burritos (veggie for kid) and nachos on the side.
Homemade pizzas next weekend and a curry night planned at some point.
Must teach her a few cocktails too
Have a v good recipe for homemade pizza base that does actually taste like an Italian pizzaā¦ but, you need a fucking hot oven, or at least a decent oven stoneā¦ and you need to kneed the fucker for eternity!
ā¦ although given recent major surgical stuff to keep her alive, all a bit fragile at moment (mentally as well as physically) so I am keeping her entertained with my sophisticated charm:
ā¦ she is still not impressed by my elephant impression - said the trunk was disproportionally small compared to the earsā¦I said I wore those trousers special like as they had huge pockets so I could do the African
5.6 % and just as nice out of the can as it is on tap.
Regular readers will have picked up on my reputation for not being able to drink - I should explain that I gained as much of that reputation amongst my IRL mates for this beer as I did for Punk IPA.
Lush.
ā¦and yet another of the Brewdog vs X beers. This time Brewdog vs Modern Times (Whatās the story with the naming here @ant - are they collaborations or something?)
