Torpedo.

Things have been quiet round here. Most likely because SNPA is pretty available these days. Supermarkets, beer emporiums and the on-line booze stores seem to have picked up on the hoppy goodness. Maybe this is inline wit the UK having more microbreweries now than ever before...who knows?

You can imagine my surprise, therefore, that this week i've been struggling to find a single bottle in any of the usual places. As it happens i tok a detour on the way home tonight and in an out of the way Tesco, i found not only 22 bottles of the good stuff, but 7 bottles of Torpedo (£1.84 and £2.18 respectively). Tesco is sometimes unpopular for aggressive business policies, but i cant complain, eh?

Lean SNPA Times

Prices still sky high in Tescos, but they do have Samuel Adams Boston Lager in now.

Lose Some Win Some

Well, it had to end sometime. SNPA back up to £1.84 in our local Tesco. They did have Torpedo in though at a double dip recession busting £2.18.

Proof of Tesco's solid left hook.

3 for 2 in Tesco's

Yes, evil supermarket swallowing up the little guys but they are doing three for two on a fair few beers, including SNPA. £1.83 a bottle to start so three at £1.22 / bottle. Better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick. Get some, get them home and chilled. Go for a dirty / great bike ride. Come home for a well-deserved drink.

Innis and Gunn and Goose Island in there too. Peroni Reserva as well - that any good or a bit syrupy? I went for three SNPA's. Not that I've gone out and earned them yet but they are in the fridge.

East(er) coast newsflash

SNPA £1.18 in Tesco at the mo.

Portability.

We'll see if this reaches our shores...

AND! Hoptimum is back...Yum!

Life and Limb

The guys and gals at Corks of Cotham came through again. They got a total of six bottles of Life and Limb, a Sierra Nevada collaboration with Dogfish Head. Staff bought three of the bottles. I managed to get the final bottle. Expensive but should be good given the breweries involved.

I also got a few bottles of Ruthless Rye IPA. Sounds interesting.

Hey! Chico, watch it!

from the land beyond SNPA

Lucky enough to be in central Oregon at the moment. In addition to the nice lifestyle, good friends, excellent climate, awesome trails and stunning landscape it's also blessed with some truly outstanding beers.

We're in Bend - population 80000 - and it boasts 9 (nine) different breweries, most  of which have brewpubs too.

Wide selection of beers on offer, but favourites for me are the classic NW IPA styles. Deschutes are the local 800 pound gorilla and the Mirror Pond and Inversion have gone down a treat.

Favourite of the trip so far is Boneyard RPM IPA available at our local - Brother Jon's Public House. No brewpub, but  a visit to their tasting rooms sounds like a perfect Friday afternoon mission.

Excuse my potty mouth, but why the fuck aren't people brewing stuff like this in the UK?

And another thing, the three local supermarkets and even the local convenience store all carry local, quite local and not-so local craft beers in quantity in addition to the general purpose cooking lagers.

Summer. Beer on the beach.

Waitrose and beyond...

This is the deep south. Reduced Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in Waitrose. But really you want to get yourself over to a beer shop in Brighton, where the Sierra Nevada ain't reduced but is numerous. I've had Tumbler, Glissade and Torpedo. They are clever brewers.

Start 'em young.

Oddbins is done. But fortunately Waitrose have picked up the green label and its going at £1.89...Tesco are still the best bet for stock and reasonable price, but its good to have options...

Hoptimum.

Bring the pain.

progress

after doing some time in oz i returned with a healthy respect for their beers, and a long lasting dislike for all of their sportsmen (the women i hold no grudge against). i respected the VB, not for it's taste (what taste?) but for it's alarming hangover capability - never, ever again. i also respected the little creatures - not the kangaroo for it's jumping ability, not the platypus for it's egg laying prowess - but the very fine pale ale brewed in freemantle, western oz (not bloody perth you idiot). i had many a good night with the little buggers and on returning to blighty was on a mission to find some here. as luck would have it when i contacted the lovely people at LC brewery they had just packed off the first consignment of the pale to the u.k. and it was heading to those lovely people at waitrose - i was saved. nowadays the lovely pale ale is a common sight on the shelves of the finer beer selling establishments and it still takes me back to the heady days of drinking in st kilda.

so can you imagine my delight when i found this little beauty...

progress no?

of course it was those lovely people at utobeer that once again brought this to me. and talking of progress....

quality ale? in a can? surely not?!?!

tastes pretty damn good to me.

will let you know how the little creatures bright ale goes down once it's chilled.

so dr jon. the future of this blog?...

The secret lives of prams...

Who knew?



What with one thing and another this blog has been pretty quiet. Why? well, sierra nevada has enjoyed a solid flow of stock to TEsco (£1.67 a bottle), Oddbins (£1.99) and various boutique beer emporiums in Glasgow (Lupe Pintos american and mexican deli, The Cave, Peckhams, etc). It is also easily available on-line (Beers of Europe, the Drink Shop and Beer Here to name 3).

It would be nice to see some standardisation of price. It would also be nice to see some availability (except sporadically) of some of the other sierra nevada ales, porters and weisse, but i'll live.

The future of this blog? Who knows....

bargain hunter

Hoping everyone managed to fill their boots in the great Aldi sell-off? Sue managed to bag a stash of SNPA at 99p.

Away from SNPA, but still on the cheap tip, ASDA are doing Dos Equis Amber for 99p.

Arriba!

It would be rude not to...

So g funk is visiting glasgow. I had this idea, see? to get some SNPA in....you know, in case we fancied a wee brew...



Found that the offer in Tesco is still good - 4 for 3: making it cheap...also Oddbins are back in stock, but at the slightly more costly rate of £1.99 per bottle. But its all good, rrrriiiiight?

Anyone visiting York ?

Can recommend this place

The house of trembling madness, stonegate, york

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4867882.Ian_Loftus_to_turn_former_Beams_Tearooms_in_Stonegate__York___into_a_beer_caf__/

Interesting beer choice, decent food (rubbish service tho)

and one of the best beer shops ever

I counted 6 different Sierra Nevada's

Tesco update!

3 SNPA for £4 at the moment. BUY, BUY, BUY!