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Brewdog 77 Lager – Juxtaposition Pilsner, 4.9%, Fraserburgh, United Kingdom

By MatthewCoupe — 2 Comments
February 16, 2011
Brewskie

In 5: Distinctive, Fun, Flavoursome, Alive, Crafty

The more we dig up the back garden the more we like about Brewdog. Born out of a frustration shared by the Brewskie authors and readers with the rubbish array of beers in pubs and supermarkets, the Brewdog founders decided to set up a brewery and started making their own tipples, how wonderful. It puts our passive aggressive attempts at ridding the world of crap beer to shame and if they keep up the good work they have started no doubt they will be Brewdog millionaires before too long!

So, what kind of pedigree is the 77 lager?

Well firstly, what is it? Lager or bitter? We think that’s the point… So to continue the growing trend of  making up mongrel dog breeds to make them sell for more money we think this would be known as a ‘Rug’ as it has all the bite of a Rottweiler and the ugly charm of a Pug. Every mouthful is a delight of lingering full flavours making it far too good to be ‘put down’. It also has a wonderful head to it which no matter what you do, just keeps swirling around, mocking you, daring you to drink the whole lot before it will go away. So we did.

Although we highly recommend you get your jowls around a bottle you will need to keep this beer on a lead as you’ll be hounding for more; but be careful not to have too many or you’ll end up in the doghouse.

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Schneider Weisse Tap 7, 5.4%, Kelheim, Germany

By MatthewCoupe — Leave a comment
February 15, 2011
Brewskie

In 5: Dark, Enjoyable, Flavoursome, Medicinal, Citrus

Interesting fact: If you don’t speak German and you want to order a beer in Germany you need to be careful how many fingers you hold up. Unlike in the UK and other inefficient countries, in Germany, if you only want 1 beer you show them your thumb and then your first finger becomes your second beer and so on…

Every day is a school day on Brewskie! Although I wouldn’t worry about getting it wrong too much as there’s only 1 thing better than a beer, 2 beers!

So, the beer, well it’s not labelled as a dunkel (dark beer) but it is pretty dark in colour. Don’t let that fool you though, there is quite a citrus whiff to it and the taste is light. As it’s rather flat it seemed to fly down without really touching the sides. There was a moment early on where we were getting a little bit of a TCP smell and the taste does have some strange notes to it that we couldn’t quite put our fingers on. Overall, this Wesley (Schneider) definitely doesn’t deserve the Ballon d’or, instead it is an average player in one of the world’s most competitive arenas.

If only someone were to offer us a gallon d’beer right now…

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