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OK so this was my first shoot in the rain ... and I must say I'm loving the result. A rather subdued and low key shot but I think it captures the atmosphere. Campervan was parked 100m from here (with the heater left on and a couple of Brewdog's waiting for me) so it was a totally enjoyable shoot
I decided, in boredom, to explore this ring pull (from a brewdog's punk IPA btw) in macro. Kind of happy with how this turned out.
Lensbaby Composer, Sweet 35 Optic, 20mm + 36mm Extension Tubes, probably f/5.6
Essex Road, London N1.
Beer company's BrewDog's venue for pop-up restaurants closed after only two months toward the end of last year.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 50mm f/1.4
Brewdog's 'Sink The Bismarck' is the the worlds strongest beer at 41% abv. Jackhammer at only 7.2% makes a good chaser!
A glass of I Hardcore You from draft at Henrik Øl & Vinstove in Bergen, Norway.
I Hardcore You is the result of a collaboration between Danish gypsy brewer Mikkeller and Scottish punk brewers BrewDog. This 9,5% abv imperial IPA was brewed at BrewDog in Fraserburgh, Scotland, and is a blend of Mikkeller's I Beat You and BrewDog's World Beer Cup 2010 Gold Medal winner Hardcore IPA.
The beer poured a clear amber color with a beige frothy head. It had a wonderful hop aroma, rich in pine and citrus, but also with a light caramel note. The mouthfeel was massive, even for an imperial IPA, with a good malt bill and a wonderful creamy texture. Flavor started out with caramel and toasted malts, before the massive hop character took over - first as a juicy, flavorful piny and citrus mixture but in the finish more dry and bitter, with lingering citrus notes. Wow, this is such a rich beer but still very drinkable.
The back side label on the bottle of BrewDog Hops Kill Nazis carries the standard message from the punk brewers:
BrewDog: Beer for Clever Humans
BrewDog's beers are the epitome of
pure punk. We brew uncompromising,
bold, and irreverent beer, beer with a
soul and a purpose.
Our approach has the same contempt
of the mass beer market that the
old-school punks had for pop-culture.
BrewDog is a modern day rebellion
against faceless corporate
bureaucracy and the bland, soulless
beer they industrially produce.
A bottle of Nanny State from BrewDog in Fraserburgh, Scotland, at HåndverkerStuene in Oslo.
Nanny State is BrewDog's reply to the criticism that they only make strong beers to show off the alcohol, that they couldn't make flavorful weaker beers. At 1.1% abv Nanny State is certainly weak in alcohol, but, oh boy does it deserve the title imperial mild - it's been brewed with more hops per barrel than any other beer ever brewed in the UK and is said to be above 200 IBU!
It poured a clear deep copper brown color with a big white head. Aroma is knockout hoppy, wow! Mouthfeel is thin, almost watery. Initial flavor has a light malt sweetness to it but feels watery light, like a Coors Lite I assume. Then the hops kicked in, making my tongue curl up. Wow, this was intense hoppy! Piny and herbal hops and a good dose of bittering hops. Awesome! But balanced - no way!
Today's advent beer is Brewdog's fantastic little dig at Aldi and their tendency to copy other brands packaging :)
BrewDog - Dogma (Ltd) is a 7% ABV very rich amber ale from Scotland. Brewdog's ingredients include guarana, poppy seed (!), and kola nut blended in Scottish heather honey. Heather honey was commonly used in the brewing of beer during the middle ages, before the use of hops. Heather honey is a *particularly* rich & sweet honey. This is the foundation of the Brewdog Dogma flavor, in which Dogma's other flavors are blended. Following a rich amber pour, the first swig of this ale is a robust injection of honeysuckle juiciness. Interestingly, not overwhelming sweetness by any stretch.
The distinct, substantial, yet familiar honeysuckle flavor is a tempered initiation to the followup (but not subtle) flavors of poppy seed (poppy flavor in a beer?!), evergreen kola nut, and fruity guarana maple. Kola nut was used in Coca Cola and Pepsi for quite some time, giving cola its distinct flavor we know today.
So mid-swig, the kola nut/poppy seed/fruity guarana flavor medley blends beautifully with the honey base, then the honey base dissipates followed by a substantial poppy/kola flavor, and then woosh - it's gone ... like Keyser Söze. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." This ale possesses a terrifically engineered flavor combination - delicious honey escorted to an exit by poppy, kola nut, and fruity goodness. The only thing one has to look forward to is the next swig, and look forward to it I did indeed - until the untimely end of the bottle. Within the genre of ales, I recommend Brewdog - Dogma unconditionally.
Specially brewed by BrewDog’s Swedish importer at BrewDog, exclusivly for Sweden.
A double IPA with Cloudberries added to the conditioning tank.
So just who is Ingrid? Perhaps she’s a reference to the Swedish silver screen icon or maybe it’s the line seemingly spoken by every other Swedish actress in films from the 60s and 70s (we know you know the ones we’re talking about).
One thing is certain – this Swedish inspired Double IPA is not as innocent as she at first appears. A seductive body of rich malts and a buxom amount of Citra, Nelson Sauvin and Bramling Cross hops have been added to fresh Scandinavian cloudberries to deliver this beer’s raunchy tart finish. Designed by the readers of Swedish beer blog BeerSweden, ‘Hello, My Name is Ingrid’ is a celebration of all that is great about Sweden. It does not, however, contain any pickled herrings. Or meatballs.
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A number of Borismasters wear all over adverts. Given the amount of time they spend in Central London, the advertising must pay off!!
LT34 advertises Brewdog's Black Heart draught stout whilst rumbling past Camden Market on a 27 to Hammersmith Grove via Camden Town station, Mornington Crescent station, Warren Street station, Baker Street station, Paddington station, Notting Hill Gate and Kensington Olympia.
Brewdog's Christmas offering, exclusive to Tesco, Elf. A 4.5% lager, a cool can, and very drinkable.
Like all BrewDog beers, the 77 Lager has a story on the back side:
7000 years ago, a mystical and enchanting beverage was discovered. It was a nourishing foodstuff that played a pivotal role in many great ancient civilisations.
Today, in this hectic, monopolized, grey world we live in there is no longer magic to be found in this bland, mass produced, cheaply sourced and watered down concoction.
At BrewDog we believe that the magic is still there to be extracted from this drink. All that is needed is the reintroduction of passion, love, care and the highest quality ingredients.
Everyone who shares in BrewDog's vision will be able to escape from the monotony of modern day life and rediscover the zest, sparkle and spectrum of joys provided by nature and ehr wares that make life worth living.
Come and join us on a journey ...
Anti Establishment IPA from ALDI, looking very much like Brewdog's PUNK IPA. Brewdog then created ALD IPA, looking very much like the ALDI logo. After some social media shenanigans, all ended happy, deals done and trees planted.
A bottle of I Hardcore You at Håndverkerstuene in Oslo.
I Hardcore You is the result of a collaboration between Danish gypsy brewer Mikkeller and Scottish punk brewers BrewDog. This 9,5% abv imperial IPA was brewed at BrewDog in Fraserburgh, Scotland, and is a blend of Mikkeller's I Beat You and BrewDog's World Beer Cup 2010 Gold Medal winner Hardcore IPA.
The beer poured a clear deep amber color with a beige frothy head. It had a wonderful hop aroma, rich in pine and citrus, but also with a light caramel note. The mouthfeel was massive, even for an imperial IPA, with a good malt bill and a wonderful creamy texture. Flavor started out with caramel and toasted malts, before the massive hop character took over - first as a juicy, flavorful piny and citrus mixture but in the finish more dry and bitter, with lingering citrus notes. Wow, this is such a rich beer but still very drinkable. Another winner from BrewDog and Mikkeller!
BrewDog's Belfast Bomb is a truly explosive porter.
Stouts and Ireland go hand-in-hand, you can't have one without the other. Unfortunately we've come to think of the dull, watery variety that have enthralled the tastebuds of the unadventurous beer drinker for centuries. Big brands, no flavour.
The Belfast Bomb's character is almost as violent as the city's past. It is tension, bottled. An aggressive bitterness and stormy smoothness blend together to create a highly volatile, ticking time bomb.
Tick. Tock.
Heather honey infused Scotch Ale. Darker than I thought it might be, but just as sweet as the honey would suggest. Folk who don't like their beer too hoppy might like to try this as an entry into Brewdog's repetoire. It's good.
Infused with Limonnik (Schisandra chinensis), this is the latest in Brewdog's cheeky "My Name Is" series. The target is of course Vlad Putin and his infamously ignorant attitude to gay people. And others. 50% of the proceeds of this beer go to charities representing oppressed minorities. (I hope that includes gingers or I want my money back). I won't quote all the blurb on the bottle but the the final warning is, "may contain traces of sarcasm and protest."
And as a beer? Classsic Brewdog really. Loads of hops, sweeter than some others, and a pleasant resiny tang from the Limonnik.
Mikkeller - Black Imperial Stout 18.1% ABV. Woah!!! this is a serious impy stout. Alcohol is very forefront and not at all hidden, first sip is overpowering. Chocolate and Coffee as expected, some liquorice, plenty of burnt toasted malts, sweet yet bitter finish. Nice mouthfeel, not as oily as you'd expect from this high an ABV and carbonation is well balanced. To be sipped, not swigged! Very nice Impy Stout, but I think I preferred BrewDog's Tokyo. 9/10.
Anti Establishment IPA from ALDI, looking very much like Brewdog's PUNK IPA. Brewdog then created ALD IPA, looking very much like the ALDI logo. After some social media shenanigans, all ended happy, deals done and trees planted.
BrewDog's Double IPA, a beer only for the hardest Belfastian.
SAMSON & GOLIATH
“Two giants; side-by-side.
Samson with his long, curly hair and the strength to destroy a temple using only his bare hands. Goliath, a magnificent warrior. Towering over with armour and weaponry most men would struggle to carry or even stand in. What do these two men have in common? The same qualities that appear to give them strength are also their great weaknesses.
Our strength is brewing strong beer. Our weakness? We love drinking them.
There is no strong beer, just weak men.”
Another night in Sydney, another trek across town in search of beervana, this time at The Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst. Any pub that has 20 taps is off to a good start. Frequently changing the beers on tap means it's great. Stocking beers I've both never heard of and, better yet, beers I have heard of and want to try, is beervana! I still had the second day of my conference the following day so I behaved myself, otherwise I would have made it a mission to get through the list of 20 beers. And I don't go for anything less than a proper pint if it's on offer.
Mind you they had BrewDog's Tokyo on tap, a monster of a stout at 18.2% ABV which they would only serve me once I said that no I was not driving, and that yes I understood I would only be served one 310ml glass a night. (FYI, they had two other floors with bars, so I think that rule can be defeated quite easily.) So what does an 18.2% stout taste like? Kind of like a fortified stout. Worth the $20 price-tag I hear you ask? For the experience, yeah, sure. Would I go again? To be honest I think I'd prefer a good stout or a good fortified wine. Still, if you ever get the chance give it a whirl.
A festive beer for Flickr and another opportunity to display my Bretagne Puffin glass from the Britt Brewery. The beer is Brewdog's 'Sour Grinch' a chocolate, cranberry and hazlenut sour beer. Not normally a fan of Brewdog beers and their ethos, this was surprisingly good. Well it is Christmas.
Here are the beers that John will be bringing from his cellar to the New Brew Thursday 1st Anniversary Celebration at Churchill's Pub and Grille on November 4, 2010:
- Firestone Walker: Parabola
- The Bruery Provisions Series: Premiére
- The Bruery: Oude Tart
- The Bruery: 100% Barrel Aged Coton [Stephen will also be bringing a bottle.]
- BrewDog: Sink The Bismarck!
- BrewDog: Prototype 27 [Extremely limited! A special batch of Brewdog's Hardcore IPA made with Scottish raspberries. Only 150 bottles produced.]
- BrewDog: Tokio* - Batch 002
- BrewDog / Cambridge / Stone Brewing Co: Juxtaposition
- Dogfish Head / Alström Bros: Wrath of Pecant
- New Glarus Brewing Co: Wisconsin Belgian Red
- Goose Island Beer Co: 2008 Bourbon County Brand Stout
- Russian River Brewing Co: Supplication - Batch 04x2
Combine these with Stephen Johnson's and Dr. Bill Sysak's tasty cellar treats, PLUS pours of The Bruery's 2010 Black Tuesday and Surly Brewing Co's 2010 Darkness, AND all of the EPIC beers on tap at Churchill's Pub and Grille… well, we're in for a great night!
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Just returned from an exhilarating walk up a few mountains. This is my reward*. I need it. I'm knackered.
This is Brewdog's Imperial Stout, totally OTT in taste, and 10% to boot. It's ingredients include cocoa nibs, coffee, vanilla and oak chips. It ain't half sticky. It aint half good.
* OK, so this part one of my reward.
A photo from a Monday night Beer School tasting at BrewDog Camden.
Good write-up of BrewDog Camden's Beer School is here:
www.aahhh.org/2012/03/16/beer-for-punks
Steven is one of 4 grey squirrels and 7 stoats that were used as "packaging" for BrewDog's high-strength 55% ABV beer, The End Of History:
www.brewdog.com/blog-article/341
The glass in the photo contains Libertine Porter, not End Of History.
End Of History is no longer available to the best of my knowledge.
A special beer from Brewdog. The original Lichenstein painting sold for £5m, these bottles sell for £4.95 each.
The blurb on the back of them says "Roy Lichenstein was a true pioneer of the art world and in a similar vein,Brewdog has alwaye been about breaking the rules and twisting beer stylesto create revolutionary and ofetn abstract beers, all the while not taking ourselves too seriously.
We are proud to have been able to colaborate with the Tate to brew this special beer to mark their exhibition of this great artist. Brewed with rye and US hops, this is a vibrant yet refreshing take on the American pale ale style".
Have been a while since I uploaded something that is not taken with iPhone. Problem was - my good old MacBook died and I had to get a new one but that took a while. That mean I had loads of pictures from my Pentax that just sat on SD card and since I don't upload pictures without post processing - no new uploads. Besides I shoot in RAW anyway… I could have used girlfriends laptop but then I would have to install all my favourite applications there which wouldn't be worth the effort…besides - there is no Aperture on Windows...
But now - I have a new computer (MacBook Air) and I'm ready to go through all my pictures and process them. That'll probably take a while though…
First set (the smallest of 3) is from random photo shoot of BrewDog's Abstrakt beer. It's such a nice bottle and such an interesting beer that I thought that it deserved it. Nothing fancy. Just some random photos in my garden (which at the time needed some grass cutting) with beer bottle in the middle of a grass field.
Few beers are shrouded in secrecy like the porter; a beer whose roots are said to be punctuated by hurried footsteps along cobbled London streets and swirls of mist from atop the River Thames. Decloaked and radically reinvisaged, BrewDog's Alice Porter is a 6.2% sacred union of one 300-year-old recipe and two cross continental hop varieties
Gourmet Burger Kitchen - it does exactly what the name suggests. Namely 'gourmet' burgers (i.e high quality, creative ingredients, etc). Founded in 2001 by a bunch of friends from New Zealand (I'm not sure how big a part burgers play in Kiwi culture but OK), GBK are now an international operation - with 60+ restaurants all over the globe, and footholds in places like Dubai, Oman and Greece. They're a chain, but they've not yet reached the point where they feel too slick, or too 'chainy'.
Anyhow, we went down to the one in Spitalfields Market (which has outdoor seating, woo!) in London to try out the new, rugby themed ‘Mighty Jack’ (*insert joke about my name here*). £18.95 gets you two 6oz beef patties plus crispy bacon, mature cheese, garlic mayo, dill pickle and fries (we went for the skinny ones, goddamnit Greta). I guess you could say it is hedonistic, but not excessive by ‘modern' burger standards (and don’t you fkn love modern burger standards?).
It usually comes with a 500ml can (yup, 500ml can) of Brewdog’s legendary Punk IPA - but I swapped this out for a Spier Chenin Blanc (having wanted to try this wine for a bit) and was not disappointed. The wine is soft and very fruit forward: who said you can’t have white wine with…er, everything?
Also for those who don’t fancy booze you can swap out the beer/wine for a milkshake. As for the burger? What can I say? Everybody’s getting on the rugby bandwagon at the moment - and it was a bloody good burger ^_^
Brewdog's new Tangerine IPA, 4.5% ABV. It smells fantastic, really strong tangerine smell (or, according to my wife, "cat pee", but I beg to differ). However, the taste is disappointingly relatively bland. Nice enough, but disappointing.
Gourmet Burger Kitchen - it does exactly what the name suggests. Namely 'gourmet' burgers (i.e high quality, creative ingredients, etc). Founded in 2001 by a bunch of friends from New Zealand (I'm not sure how big a part burgers play in Kiwi culture but OK), GBK are now an international operation - with 60+ restaurants all over the globe, and footholds in places like Dubai, Oman and Greece. They're a chain, but they've not yet reached the point where they feel too slick, or too 'chainy'.
Anyhow, we went down to the one in Spitalfields Market (which has outdoor seating, woo!) in London to try out the new, rugby themed ‘Mighty Jack’ (*insert joke about my name here*). £18.95 gets you two 6oz beef patties plus crispy bacon, mature cheese, garlic mayo, dill pickle and fries (we went for the skinny ones, goddamnit Greta). I guess you could say it is hedonistic, but not excessive by ‘modern' burger standards (and don’t you fkn love modern burger standards?).
It usually comes with a 500ml can (yup, 500ml can) of Brewdog’s legendary Punk IPA - but I swapped this out for a Spier Chenin Blanc (having wanted to try this wine for a bit) and was not disappointed. The wine is soft and very fruit forward: who said you can’t have white wine with…er, everything?
Also for those who don’t fancy booze you can swap out the beer/wine for a milkshake. As for the burger? What can I say? Everybody’s getting on the rugby bandwagon at the moment - and it was a bloody good burger ^_^
Have been a while since I uploaded something that is not taken with iPhone. Problem was - my good old MacBook died and I had to get a new one but that took a while. That mean I had loads of pictures from my Pentax that just sat on SD card and since I don't upload pictures without post processing - no new uploads. Besides I shoot in RAW anyway… I could have used girlfriends laptop but then I would have to install all my favourite applications there which wouldn't be worth the effort…besides - there is no Aperture on Windows...
But now - I have a new computer (MacBook Air) and I'm ready to go through all my pictures and process them. That'll probably take a while though…
First set (the smallest of 3) is from random photo shoot of BrewDog's Abstrakt beer. It's such a nice bottle and such an interesting beer that I thought that it deserved it. Nothing fancy. Just some random photos in my garden (which at the time needed some grass cutting) with beer bottle in the middle of a grass field.
Gourmet Burger Kitchen - it does exactly what the name suggests. Namely 'gourmet' burgers (i.e high quality, creative ingredients, etc). Founded in 2001 by a bunch of friends from New Zealand (I'm not sure how big a part burgers play in Kiwi culture but OK), GBK are now an international operation - with 60+ restaurants all over the globe, and footholds in places like Dubai, Oman and Greece. They're a chain, but they've not yet reached the point where they feel too slick, or too 'chainy'.
Anyhow, we went down to the one in Spitalfields Market (which has outdoor seating, woo!) in London to try out the new, rugby themed ‘Mighty Jack’ (*insert joke about my name here*). £18.95 gets you two 6oz beef patties plus crispy bacon, mature cheese, garlic mayo, dill pickle and fries (we went for the skinny ones, goddamnit Greta). I guess you could say it is hedonistic, but not excessive by ‘modern' burger standards (and don’t you fkn love modern burger standards?).
It usually comes with a 500ml can (yup, 500ml can) of Brewdog’s legendary Punk IPA - but I swapped this out for a Spier Chenin Blanc (having wanted to try this wine for a bit) and was not disappointed. The wine is soft and very fruit forward: who said you can’t have white wine with…er, everything?
Also for those who don’t fancy booze you can swap out the beer/wine for a milkshake. As for the burger? What can I say? Everybody’s getting on the rugby bandwagon at the moment - and it was a bloody good burger ^_^
Gourmet Burger Kitchen - it does exactly what the name suggests. Namely 'gourmet' burgers (i.e high quality, creative ingredients, etc). Founded in 2001 by a bunch of friends from New Zealand (I'm not sure how big a part burgers play in Kiwi culture but OK), GBK are now an international operation - with 60+ restaurants all over the globe, and footholds in places like Dubai, Oman and Greece. They're a chain, but they've not yet reached the point where they feel too slick, or too 'chainy'.
Anyhow, we went down to the one in Spitalfields Market (which has outdoor seating, woo!) in London to try out the new, rugby themed ‘Mighty Jack’ (*insert joke about my name here*). £18.95 gets you two 6oz beef patties plus crispy bacon, mature cheese, garlic mayo, dill pickle and fries (we went for the skinny ones, goddamnit Greta). I guess you could say it is hedonistic, but not excessive by ‘modern' burger standards (and don’t you fkn love modern burger standards?).
It usually comes with a 500ml can (yup, 500ml can) of Brewdog’s legendary Punk IPA - but I swapped this out for a Spier Chenin Blanc (having wanted to try this wine for a bit) and was not disappointed. The wine is soft and very fruit forward: who said you can’t have white wine with…er, everything?
Also for those who don’t fancy booze you can swap out the beer/wine for a milkshake. As for the burger? What can I say? Everybody’s getting on the rugby bandwagon at the moment - and it was a bloody good burger ^_^