In for the night. Just liberated the Polish shop for my sustenance 😊

Edited September 21, 20223 yr by deane koontz

4 minutes ago, Zico said:

Cloudwater on it's way to Tesco 

Be interesting to see how they taste when made for supermarket shelves

Brewed at brewdog up near Aberdeen. That usual for them?

14 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Brewed at brewdog up near Aberdeen. That usual for them?

no, they are Manc based

they've done some beers with smaller breweries but brewed it at Brewdog in Aberdeen - so presume that's because Brewdog have a set up to cater for supermarkets

Cult craft brewery Cloudwater is to make its supermarket debut in Tesco.

The Manchester-based brewery – which for many years avoided mass market retail – will hit the supermarket’s shelves this month with a quartet of beers in a collaborative four-pack with minority-owned breweries called ‘Cloudwater & Friends’, comprising four single-hopped IPAs brewed at BrewDog’s brewery in Ellon, Scotland (rsp: £10).

It will also launch a quartet of new Cloudwater beers exclusively into Tesco: a Pale Ale (3.7%), a DDH Pale (5%), a Session IPA (4.5%) and an IPA (6%), which will also be brewed through the tie-up with BrewDog (rsp: £3-£3.50).

apparenty neither Cloudwater or Brewdog will take profit from the "and friends" beer, so they've only partially sold out, but none of them are Cloudwater beers really, so they best be nice or it could damage the brand, whilst making them loads of money

2 minutes ago, Zico said:

no, they are Manc based

they've done some beers with smaller breweries but brewed it at Brewdog in Aberdeen - so presume that's because Brewdog have a set up to cater for supermarkets

Cult craft brewery Cloudwater is to make its supermarket debut in Tesco.

The Manchester-based brewery – which for many years avoided mass market retail – will hit the supermarket’s shelves this month with a quartet of beers in a collaborative four-pack with minority-owned breweries called ‘Cloudwater & Friends’, comprising four single-hopped IPAs brewed at BrewDog’s brewery in Ellon, Scotland (rsp: £10).

It will also launch a quartet of new Cloudwater beers exclusively into Tesco: a Pale Ale (3.7%), a DDH Pale (5%), a Session IPA (4.5%) and an IPA (6%), which will also be brewed through the tie-up with BrewDog (rsp: £3-£3.50).

apparenty neither Cloudwater or Brewdog will take profit from the "and friends" beer, so they've only partially sold out, but none of them are Cloudwater beers really, so they best be nice or it could damage the brand, whilst making them loads of money

Cheers. I think the last bit is the pertinent bit eh. 

Edited April 15, 20215 yr by Escobarp

3 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Cheers. I think the last bit is the pertinent bit eh. 

aye, I don't hold it against them at all or anyting like that

hardcore craft drinkers always sneer at the sell outs

end of the day, most would do it given half a chance I reckon

if all Cloudwater went mass produced, it would undoubtedly lose it's quality taste, and would stop buying it

they've probably been smart here - keep on making their own regular stuff, and get brewdog to knock out some supermarket stuff with their label here, best of both worlds, might even convert some supermaket shoppers into bottle shop shoppers

Youri will be along shortly to announce that he's set up a brewery in his garden using several dozen old socks, 144 cans of Asda own-brand bitter, 10 litres of turpentine and several gallons of Um Bongo.

It's called Great Lever Colon Aggreiver and is sold in all the spare mugs from his Easter eggs at £10 a go.

Edited April 15, 20215 yr by Spider

3 minutes ago, Zico said:

aye, I don't hold it against them at all or anyting like that

hardcore craft drinkers always sneer at the sell outs

end of the day, most would do it given half a chance I reckon

if all Cloudwater went mass produced, it would undoubtedly lose it's quality taste, and would stop buying it

they've probably been smart here - keep on making their own regular stuff, and get brewdog to knock out some supermarket stuff with their label here, best of both worlds, might even convert some supermaket shoppers into bottle shop shoppers

Problem Is they aren’t geared up to be able to satisfy an increased demand for their own product and diluting its quality probably isn’t going to have the effect of driving folk to source their product is it?

I tried a couple from salt last week and was very underwhelmed. Not sure it it was because it came from a supermarket would it be different if I got it direct from salt or similar? 

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Youri will be along shortly to announce that he's set up a brewery in his garden using several dozen old socks, 144 cans of Asda own-brand bitter, 10 litres of turpentine and several gallons of Um Bongo.

It's called Great Lever Colon Aggreiver and is sold in all the spare mugs from his Easter eggs at £10 a go.

You’ve just spoiled his post now. 😎

@Youri McAnespiewhere am I going to get a deal on red stripe currently pal? 

40 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

@Youri McAnespiewhere am I going to get a deal on red stripe currently pal? 

B&M £13.99 for 24 x 330ml

On 11/04/2021 at 20:19, Bigtoe said:

I'm booked in rivvy tap for pizzas and beer next week, can't wait, Blood Machines on keg. 

Got a few from Wrights on Friday, Pomona Island  Chainhouse again  and tried a couple of Arbours, decent value IMO if you choose right, 568ml 👍

Also another Vault City delivery is in

Might call in and see Raz at Leyland tomorrow

 

On 11/04/2021 at 22:17, Zico said:

Got a session lined up at rivvy first Saturday in June, cannae wait

Just recovering from Wednesday afty session at Rivvy.

Fuck me, you forget how much faster you drink when there's a few of you.

8 x Fog & 1x Evil Dead II to finish. I have no idea how I got back to Preston - it was obviously by train but I can't remember being on it.

12 minutes ago, Steejay said:

 

Just recovering from Wednesday afty session at Rivvy.

Fuck me, you forget how much faster you drink when there's a few of you.

8 x Fog & 1x Evil Dead II to finish. I have no idea how I got back to Preston - it was obviously by train but I can't remember being on it.

9 pints of Rivvy?

You probably got home on a magic carpet

29 minutes ago, Traf said:

B&M £13.99 for 24 x 330ml

Cheers pal 

@Escobarp

Traf's deal is probably the best currently on Red Stripe, they still have some single 330ml cans at Home Bargains for 55p but they're quite limited in number...

And @Spider
- My YouriBrewery has been going since I was barely a teen, established 1990.

Me and mates would chip in for a kit from the basement at Boot's on Victoria Square. I'd have to wait until gone 1am on a school night to sneak down and boil the wort etc.

The resulting mixture then went into two disinfected old 20l paste buckets and into the old redundant airing cupboard which was in my bedroom, it was a fraught affair.

After fermentation it'd go for secondary bottle fermentation and 'lagering' in clean 1.5l Diet Coke bottles in the space between my cabin bed and the outside wall.

We had many great piss ups for pennies...I kept an old Galliano liqueur bottle that my sister (pinheads/lollystick) had brought back from Italy (and drank) and we'd do 'yards' of ale from it.

I've probably forgot more than those Mango M0ngo hipsters know.

A mate of mine predicted this craze years back as he noticed blokes being increasingly emasculated and under t'thumb - that beards and £20 craft ales at home and all that would become the 'in' thing as opposed to spending £400+ on the piss out and telling your missus to fuck off* if she complained, but we didn't bother jumping in and monetising as we're both commies.

He's been into mushrooms for ages now, the next big Emperor's new clothes thing...

* Through mouthfuls of post-drinking fry-up, cooked by her.

Edited April 15, 20215 yr by Youri McAnespie

On 11/04/2021 at 20:19, Bigtoe said:

I'm booked in rivvy tap for pizzas and beer next week, can't wait, Blood Machines on keg.

Eating is a costly version of cheating...

How much is a pint there?

I bet it's kept artificially high so as not to jeopardise their cans racket with £14.74 300ml Swizzles™ Swill swizzes...

 

9 hours ago, Zico said:

aye, I don't hold it against them at all or anyting like that

hardcore craft drinkers always sneer at the sell outs

end of the day, most would do it given half a chance I reckon

if all Cloudwater went mass produced, it would undoubtedly lose it's quality taste, and would stop buying it

they've probably been smart here - keep on making their own regular stuff, and get brewdog to knock out some supermarket stuff with their label here, best of both worlds, might even convert some supermaket shoppers into bottle shop shoppers

Wasnt the rivi collab a friends brew?

8 hours ago, Steejay said:

 

Just recovering from Wednesday afty session at Rivvy.

Fuck me, you forget how much faster you drink when there's a few of you.

8 x Fog & 1x Evil Dead II to finish. I have no idea how I got back to Preston - it was obviously by train but I can't remember being on it.

Evil dead?

8 hours ago, Steejay said:

 

Just recovering from Wednesday afty session at Rivvy.

Fuck me, you forget how much faster you drink when there's a few of you.

8 x Fog & 1x Evil Dead II to finish. I have no idea how I got back to Preston - it was obviously by train but I can't remember being on it.

Gut Rot TIPA

10 hours ago, Zico said:

aye, I don't hold it against them at all or anyting like that

hardcore craft drinkers always sneer at the sell outs

end of the day, most would do it given half a chance I reckon

if all Cloudwater went mass produced, it would undoubtedly lose it's quality taste, and would stop buying it

they've probably been smart here - keep on making their own regular stuff, and get brewdog to knock out some supermarket stuff with their label here, best of both worlds, might even convert some supermaket shoppers into bottle shop shoppers

Bottle shops will initially lose out though.

Anyway, storm in a beer glass

How much is a pint at this glorified Belmont bleachworks ffs?

I'm thinking around £7.60ish so as to preserve the crackpot can price.

9 hours ago, Escobarp said:

Problem Is they aren’t geared up to be able to satisfy an increased demand for their own product and diluting its quality probably isn’t going to have the effect of driving folk to source their product is it?

I tried a couple from salt last week and was very underwhelmed. Not sure it it was because it came from a supermarket would it be different if I got it direct from salt or similar? 

I've not seen salt anywhere but tesco, its ok but nothing special 

Two beers that went downhill for me since going in supermarkets were Beaverton lupoloid and sierra Nevada 

You don't find Brooklyn vienna lager and east india pale ale anymore in the UK, not sure why, don't rate the rest, but had beers at the brewery which were proper nice 

Camden Pale in supermarkets always decent though

26 minutes ago, Casino said:

Evil dead?

Yep, Evil Dead II was on tap yesterday. That’s the collab with Rivvy and Chainhouse.

We saved it until the last one. When we’d already had more than enough. 🙄

 

Yeah, i know what it is

They doing takeouts?

I got some hiils have eyes delivered earlier

7 minutes ago, Steejay said:

Yep, Evil Dead II was on tap yesterday. That’s the collab with Rivvy and Chainhouse.

We saved it until the last one. When we’d already had more than enough. 🙄

 

This is hard work...

Steejay went to the tap yesterday with £200 in his wallet, he bought nine pints at £X, he spent no cash elsewhere and somehow staggered home with £Y in his wallet.

What is the value of Y?

I spent around £200 on a small round in Sweden once if I'm being ignored because of not habitually being fleeced.

1 minute ago, Youri McAnespie said:

This is hard work...

Steejay went to the tap yesterday with £200 in his wallet, he bought nine pints at £X, he spent no cash elsewhere and somehow staggered home with £Y in his wallet.

What is the value of Y?

I spent around £200 on a small round in Sweden once if I'm being ignored because of not habitually being fleeced.

My guess would be that 9 drinks at Rivvy (they’re usually served as halves so not sure of actual volume) cost around £5.00 per drink

With allowance for snacks, I imagine he’s spent £60

Who buys snacks?

Is it the Blue Oyster bar or sommat?

It's a canny trick to only serve halves though.

It's actually more cash per ml than with the can gyp, less overheads too.