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Episode: 4588
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Title: HPR Beer Garden 11 - Belgian Scotch Ale
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4588/hpr4588.mp3
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Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:14:34 (official HPR transcript)
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4588, for 2026-03-04
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Today's show is entitled, "HPR Beer Garden 11 - Belgian Scotch Ale"
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The host is Kevie and the duration is 00:32:35
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The flag is Clean, and the license is CC-BY-SA
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The summary is "Dave and Kevie talk about Belgian Scotch Ales."
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Hello and welcome to yet another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio and this is the
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big garden, the our regular beer style review that we have been doing for quite a few weeks
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now, this is episode number 11. My name is Dave, I am joined as almost always by Kevy. Hello
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how are you? Hello, I am very well, I am very well indeed because this is another one of my favorite
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styles of beer, so looking forward to this. When do I go? This is when you put me through session
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apes, you're still down to feed me back. Okay, accepted. On this episode we're going to be as Kevy
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has already suggested, reviewing one of his favorite beer styles. Now, last episode we reviewed
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Scotchales, or we heavy, we're doing a slight variant on that, and this is Belgian Scotch
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Ails. Now, I haven't got a clue what the differences between the two are from the fact that one
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is brooding Scotland, one is brooding Belgium, but Kevy, I think you're going to try and tell us
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a bit more about him. Yes, so I finished the last bit of waffle we did a bit
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we heavies with to be continued, and this is the to be continued, because once I got into discovering
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new Belgian Ails, I was noticing that I'm going, well, where's this from in Scotland? Oh,
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it's from Belgium, but this thing looked like it literally was produced by a shortbreadton maker.
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You know, I mean, everything was tarten, the sills, things were killed, things were bagbipes,
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to the point where I'm going, the way I'm going, as far as I'm aware, Belgian aren't that
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Scottish, as far as I'm aware, I can't say I've actually ever been myself, I do hope to go soon,
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but I was thinking there's something odd here, so I started actually looking up, and it was
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amazing how it fits in so nicely with a combination of the Christmas Ails episode, the Belgian
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Christmas Ails episode that we did, and also the wee heavy episode that we did previously.
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So towards the end of the 19th century, the Belgian beer distributor started selling this thing called
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Belgian Christmas Ails, which, as we found out, was actually done by both Youngers and Maccurians.
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It was the same beer just sold as a different label, and what was happening was the Belgians
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actually started to get a taste for it, and they started to mimic this Christmas Ails style,
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and a few did it early on, kind of 1903 time without a great deal of success, but then the demand
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actually started to come quite high, so they decided to start producing, so by the start of the
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20th century, they were producing incredibly small quantities, the Belgian Scotch Ails, which is what
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that we are grew out of. The big real boost for the Belgian Scotch Ails actually believe it or
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not came from the first world war. British soldiers were invited with bitter from England,
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which was fine for those south of the border, who were used to drinking bitter. However,
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the problem was the morale of the Scottish soldiers was actually getting quite low, and they
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discovered, they soon discovered, that the Belgians were producing this Scotch Ails that tasted
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very similar to what they had at home, and of course the British army started ordering it for
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the Scottish soldiers so that morale would actually keep boosted, and of course it had all the
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characteristics, it was multi, it was fruity, it was strong and warming, it was quite boozy, even more
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so actually than the Scottish own version, which tended to be between, as I said last time between
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7 and 9, very often this was from 7 upwards of 13, 14 percent, although the 30, 14 was more
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extreme, so it was very similar, I know something they were familiar with. However, the problem was,
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it was still not the main type of beer produced, so it was still produced in relatively low quantities,
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so what happened was during the First World War, they started im-porting more and more from Scotland.
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Again, it's funny, you wouldn't get away with these days changing the label or calling it something
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totally different, but it also focused on ramping up production, and because of just the way things
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went with the war etc, it wasn't actually until the 1930s that they were properly producing
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vast amounts of the Scottish scale, but it's amazing to think that it was actually homesick,
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Scottish soldiers that were one of the big early drives to get the Scottish ale more readily available
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onto the Belgian market, and of course the Belgians had already discovered, they enjoyed the Christmas
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seal, they actually weren't selling it as Christmas seal, it was very much Scottish ale, and it's
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funny to see a lot of these labels, as I said, you would think they were from the very heart of the
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Highlands produced and we bought the somewhere, and literally been paraded out with bagpipes and
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tilted men, you know, it was so over the top Scottish, and these are still been produced to this day,
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and it was that bigger industry, some of them were brewed in Scotland and never to be sold in Scotland,
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they were exclusively for the Belgian market, so they were brewed, they were then im-ported,
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and these were not rebranded ones, these were exclusive for this, however I have found out,
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now there's a lot of them kept this very secret, but they're no longer brewed in Scotland,
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I don't think any of them are as far as I'm aware, I was trying to read the correct,
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but they're now all brewed in Belgium, so although sadly, the wee heavy has largely
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kind of disappeared outside of very much specialist beer shops, yet because of the Belgian love for it,
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you can enjoy a good old-fashioned wee heavy today, as long as you decide to buy it from Belgium.
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You've not left me many questions because you've been that was very comprehensive,
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I am intrigued by the fact that I may have misinterpreted this, but the fact that the
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Belgian Scotch Ayles don't typically appear in Scotland, they don't you literally have to get them
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from an im-port complete. Is there a particular reason for that? Is it a legal reason,
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no, I just don't know, it's considered non-canon, probably the non-canon, yeah, I would probably go
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with that, as far as I'm aware, it's you can get them in specialist beer shops, I wonder does it
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just that maybe they don't want to be seen to be taken away from the local brewing industry,
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I wonder is at the reason why? I suppose that would depend on how prolific
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Scotch Ayles are in Scotland, as in Scotch Scotch Ayles. Yes, sadly not, not that.
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Now, could that be cause and effect or is the Scotch Ayles phasing out organically,
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which could actually leave an opening for the Belgian Scotch Ayles to come and fill that gap?
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I think it's just mostly down to people's thinking habits, generally in Scotland, you look at
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more popular these days, it's far more a country that was a lot more, not exclusively,
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but a lot more lag or drinkers, a lot more lower ABVs, but I think that's actually
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down to drinking culture in Scotland, drinking culture in Scotland for people who enjoy beer,
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people don't seem to know how to actually sit and sip and enjoy a beer, they kind of want to
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neck it off the time. So of course, if you did that with a 10% beer, you're not going to be
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around for too long in the night, you'll be going home quickly. Right, okay, now there's a time and
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a place for doing that with a beer, I wouldn't have expected that Scotland was the place.
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Sadly, yes, if you go into a lot of eateries, not all of them, but a lot of eateries, and you'll
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get a whine list as long as the sheet of paper and probably print on both sides, and you ask
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what beer do you have, and they'll say 10 and slagger, you don't have any other beers, and they might
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say something like Stella or Peronir something like that. Yeah, okay, so I think it is more down to,
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obviously it is down to a bit of supply and demand, sadly. Okay, we're going to segue just slightly
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here. If you were to ask the Scottsperson on the street, what their favorite beer style was,
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what would be the overwhelming response? Probably slagger IP, that is the overwhelming,
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you mean you will, I'm not saying excuse me, I'm not saying excuse me, but you'll get, if it's an
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older person, guaranteed, does the Appain to Heavy, that would be just a bit nearly all, you might
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give some people like Appain to light, which is mild, don't neglect, it's practically the same
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beer. You'll get the, you know, people like me, who will say you'll still get maybe a few people
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for we Heavy, but those should be few and far between. Right, so what does that mean then for the
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Scottsperson beer industry, if you take away the Largo's and the Light Tales? The problem is,
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the Scottsperson beer industry is very much split, the all-time ones, like the big names that
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you're so well known, tenons, macurons, young girls, I mean, young girls is practically vanished.
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That's a huge brewery, but it's been bought over that many times now, it's vanished.
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You look at the macurons, you know, they were owned by Scottsperson, you Castle, who became bought
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by Heinrich and they've just practically killed off all of the beers, which is really sad,
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but at the same time, I'm saying it sad, but once, respect, they were never fantastic beers.
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The local macurons wasn't, they were decent, they were all right, you wouldn't generally say,
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wow, that's amazing. It has left a real void in the market and when I think that there was
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next to no craft breweries in about 2000 at all, very, very few, there was the odd one or two.
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Now, there are hundreds, my idea, I maybe even say thousands, because it's not them dotted
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in tiny, we've religious and things around Scotland and because Scotland is so remote,
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I mean, you've experienced this, a lot of them will only deliver, they're small, they're not
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brewing millions, they'll deliver to their own local areas and getting them, you can't get them
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but they're very expensive, you know, so your problem is you might go to a place and find a lovely,
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I mean, I can think of, I went to the Olipple Beer Festival and I had the AL of Athel and I thought,
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this is lovely, I'm going to start drinking this more regularly, I've never been able to find it,
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I ever again, so, I mean, I can find it, it's on the website and it shows me it's still a
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produce now that I can't actually order it online, so you've got that issue, so yeah,
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you've just got delivery and logistics are actually a bit of a problem, right? So this is why I'm
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always keen to try and support local breweries when they're starting producing beers to
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keep them up because at the end of the day, it's way better than what the big breweries were producing.
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Anything would be, yes, arguably, I've got to ask one more question and then I think it's probably
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about time to start cracking these bottles out. Do you think that Scotland is becoming a microborionation?
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Yes, it is now. Well, there's a definite split, there's your lagger drinkers and they just want
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tenants, you know, they're very loyal to ten slagger, which I don't get. I really, I really can't
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understand it. It's the nothing else though. No, no, there are other things, but just they're very
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loyal to, I mean, I remember that when the local brewery here started producing, which is now
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sadly closed. There's other ones, but the one I'm thinking of, he started producing and he was
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producing Klansman, which was a golden ale, and then what he did is he pumped it through
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knife rotaps to make it more like a lagger, and a lot of the lagger drinkers who tasted it said,
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oh, that's really nice. Would you drink it? Oh, no, no, I want my tenants. But you're like,
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so it's really terribly frustrating, but you've got, there's no surplus on people. No,
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where you got very much two splits at Asplit, sorry, it's very much two halves, and you will get
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ones who are, they want that pint a lager, and you'll get the other half who will, I want to try
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something new, I want to try different things. So I'd say that's the split on this street. I think you're
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probably here to ask for people's favorite beer. If you get rather than say you're favorite style,
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if you go favorite beer, I think you would probably depending on where you're out of course.
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You're either going to get a range of locally spears that you've generally never heard of, or
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ten as lagger, you know, that's going to be a little answer, which in one sense is actually good
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for the craft beer market in school, because there's so many of them, no, it's, it's lovely.
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I mean, I've had tenants, I've had, was it four variants of tenants? I think you used to be able to
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get back in the 1980s when I shouldn't have been drinking to sing, but nothing really blew me away.
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A lager is a lager is a lager, there are different taste profiles, but ultimately the
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end of the day is a lager. It's nothing special, in my opinion, and I apologize. No, I don't,
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I don't apologize. To all the people I may have offended by saying that. But when you've got so
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much choice, so much variety, so many styles, so many flavour profiles of all the beers. I mean,
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we're in your own episode 11, and I have learned so much. Why would I go into a pub, and order
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what is probably on the most prominent pump in the entire bar, and that's calling, or that
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to be fair, I used to drink calling, and I used to like it. I know, I'm sorry, I have my card in.
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But see, that's a problem. There's so many people who want to vary. I mean, you enjoyed it at
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the time, but would you go back to it now? No, because I know better. Yeah, exactly. And that's
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where the problem is, we need to get people trying these beers and trying different things,
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because they'll then suddenly realize, whoa, that's actually a heck of a lot nicer. I mean,
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even when it comes to Lager, you can get good Lager. But, you know, I mean, Lager by itself,
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the whole Lager, Lager is actually not, the name isn't actually Lager originally. This is
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the Lager episode, but the term Lager is actually referred to storing it underground at a
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cool temperature for a long period, and it let it mature. What gets produced as Lager today,
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generally, is something that is made in the morning, and is finished practically by the evening.
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There's new age in it at all, and you're like, this is why it's bland, this is why it's tasteless.
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Lager should actually have some flavour. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Anywho, I think we should probably
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move on. Yes, because I'm definitely thirsty, you know. So, I have in front of me a bottle, which is
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actually, it is silly. I mean, managed to get this, yeah, literally. I got this from a
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biz of Europe order that I placed well before Christmas. In fact, I ran about the time that was on
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the search for Christmas sales, and we were doing the different Christmas sales styles across two
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episodes. And I thought, big brain, I'll order ahead and try and get the styles that we're going
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to be doing in the early part of 2026. So, yeah, I failed on the last one, because the one previously
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we decided wasn't a valid Scotch ale, but I managed to get myself two Belgian Scotch ale's.
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I can't tell you what the first one is, and the reason for that will become apparent very soon.
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But the second one is literally silly. So, it's from the Brasserie de Silly, which is a Belgian
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brewery, and the ale is called Scotch Silly, or Silly Scotch, whichever way you want to put. We'll
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call it. The bottle is, it's a lovely brown bottle, green labeling. Scotch Silly is born from a
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unique tradition and throughout the years as grown into a reference beer for its particular style.
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Lovely red colour with more than a hint of copper is hidden below a beige head.
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Complexer roamers, bubbles, a lot of sense of brieosha companies by raisins, fruit, jam, and
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fresh raspberry. Well, I'll be looking at it for that, definitely. But initial impressions of those
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of honey and caramel flavors of prunes and a rose malt come through the finish. And there's a
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lot going on in there. It is eight percent, which is moderately strong. And I'm going to show
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up talk him. I know him there. Here we go. Oh, hello. Oh, do they say prunes? Yes.
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Oh, that's interesting. It says the prunes come through in the finish, but I'm definitely getting
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getting them in the in the aroma. That is a gorgeous colour. It's a beautiful ruby colour.
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Yeah, quite a bit of colour agent. You think with a ruby or an amber ale, it's a lot more transparent.
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So the colour is quite it's quite a clean colour. But this one actually seems to have quite a
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big head on it. I really need to go back to school and learn how to pour a beer. But no, the
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colouring is gorgeous. It's almost an orange hint of orange in the colouring, which you wouldn't
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typically expect to see in a beer. And I've done myself a disservice here because I'm
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actually waiting for the inch and a half of head to go down. In fact, somebody can go and get
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me a spoon. That'll help. Right. So now weirdly, I'm not getting a lot, a lot through the nose
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right now. But when I first opened the bottle, it was, it was very, very strong. Let's give it a try.
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Oh, wow. That's very multi, as you would hope and expect. It is quite sweet as well.
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I definitely getting some of the fruits that it mentions, the fruity jam, the raspberry. That
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prune is still coming through surprisingly. I didn't expect that to. I don't recall
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tasting that on the first run when I had this. And I don't remember this, which is really weird.
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But yeah, very, very multi, very sweet, very fruity. I'm sticking my nose back in there.
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I'm definitely getting some sort of like caramel, but kind of a muted or a dull caramel, not the,
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the really sweet burnt sugary type of caramel that you would expect to see in a beer like this.
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This is very good indeed. I've almost, almost glad I forgot and I had this before.
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Mm, absolutely. Well, there you go. It was a nice surprise for yourself. Well, tell us what you've got.
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I have got Macshoof, which, and, well, you don't need to see if you've got a bottle there. I've
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got the older style label. Despite the fact I just ordered this, it's got the noom dwarf, whatever it is.
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In front of a week cake with the, oh, no, the new one doesn't have the cake, of course.
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No, it doesn't, but it's that bagpipes. Oh, you also got bagpipes as well. The bagpipes,
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he's got the tartan-thru's, my one as well. So, yes, very stereotypically Scottish.
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On the cake, mine says Brudon. So, I've got a sign. You could assign with that, yeah. That says Brudon.
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Right, so let's get this open.
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Uh, nice bit of smokyness coming off there. Not smoky flavor, I just meant it's more
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coming out of it. Mm, it's multi. There's a peppery spicy note. Yeah, I'm getting that's
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where I'm getting multi peppery spicy. That's from the bottle. So, let's put it.
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Fairly lively head, not quite as lively as yours, but still quite a lively head there.
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So, and as you can see yourself, you thought that you, it was exactly the same as your
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own. It looks black on the camera. Mm, but it's kind of certainly more. This is more, yeah,
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this is mahogany. This is already brown. It's, I think it's slightly browner than your room was.
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I split the, the red ruby red. In the glass, this has gotten quite a bit more boozy on the nose.
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There's notes of toasted brown sugar. Yeah, it's not a spicy at all.
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Yeah, see, from the bottle, I'm going to compare the two of them now. From the bottle, much
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peppery spicy. I don't see how much peppery, but it's just spicy note. No, it doesn't, that
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removes, but it does smell boozyer from the glass. I have to confess, so, right, it's going to
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finish that off. Right, there we go. That's actually settled down quite nicely, and it's not totally
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gone, so it's a nice head on that. Mm, cheers. Cheers. Yeah, multi toasted caramel. There's, whoa,
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there's an extra layer. I did not notice on this beer. I've always seen that fruity,
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or taste it to see. That fruity, dark fruits, dark dried fruit. Again, raisins, kind of figs,
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but there's a lighter fruit coming through on the back end. Like a green apple, or a pear, or something.
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Which I've not actually noticed before. Mm, which actually takes the sweetness,
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lingering sweetness, it's very often with the Belgian score of the shields. It's taken that away
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almost. You don't have the lingering sweetness. It's not necessarily bad or good. It's just
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slightly different. I've not noticed that with this much shift before. It's definitely got the
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Scottish flavoring. Yeah, you've got that malt-heavy front end. You've got the toasted caramel
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coming through you. No, no, we're near as boozey in the taste as it actually smelled. But that's
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actually dangerous, because that on a hot day would be dangerous. That's eight percent similar to yours.
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I think I could knock that back very easily. Mm, okay. Oh, actually quite gassy.
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That's one thing, this one isn't, even though it did flare up a bit in the glass. It's not,
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it's not fizzy. Mm, no, no, I don't mean fizzy. I mean, the kind of after you've
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drank it, it's giving you milk burping. It's what I kind of gassy, but when on to go stir,
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it's not fizzy at all. I'm tasting it. You know, I don't know, have I just never waited long enough
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for that? But that's something really different. I quite like that, actually. It's good,
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what would otherwise be quite a sweet, a very sweet, lingering finish. Normally with these,
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you get the kind of sweetness along with bitter fruits. But it actually cleans up the palate quite
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nicely. That's, yeah, I really like that. This is something that is very, very nice indeed.
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Yes, oh, I certainly would have this. So looking at the label, Maksuf is a resident halted,
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starting off with its alluding ruby red hues with a lively frothy head, but not as nowhere near
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a frothy as a silly. It leads you to an exciting taste of Anna's seed licorice and caramel,
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blending a place in my field with a balanced depth and color. Keep on track and you'll reach the
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final hint of pear with a delicious little light bitterness. At 8% ABV, this is one for the
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daredevil's. That's what the box is. Okay. I'm not getting licorice. I must admit, I'm not,
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and I'm not getting Anna's seed. There's a spiciness to it that is there in the background,
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but it's definitely nowhere near. Anna's seed to me would be clawing and dominant. This is not
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but that is very nice indeed. To be honest, I'm glad it's not exactly how the description sees.
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So I'm on the fan of Anna's seed, but you're absolutely right. It can and very often
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does dominate. I mean, there's nothing I like out of sight as well, but I just tend to find that it's
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it's a wee bit like, to me, it's a wee bit like cooking with stoutton. It's an art. And
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right, they're the often, it just dominates the food. And that's what I find with the drinks,
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it can dominate. We have a thumbs up from my eldest. We have just had a live tasting
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with no commentary, which is part of the course, but he tends to react quite harshly to
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certain nails and certainly those that have a strong nose and he did react to it, but then he tried
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it and he was like, double thumbs up, double thumbs up. Yes, that's good. So double thumbs up
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from your eldest, from your kids. What about father? What does father give it to?
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It is getting better, which is not really what I expected. If I, I've just looked at what I rated
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this on an on tap to when I had it just before the new year, I would have given it it a seven
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or half, which I'd still have pretty decent score, seven and a half out of ten is pretty decent.
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Yeah, it is. But I think I'm going to change that based on on this tasting. I think maybe I
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didn't go into it in as much detail then as I have done now. And I think there's a lot more
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going in there than I probably gave it credit for what I first tried it. So I think I'm actually
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going to put this down as an eight and a half. Oh, very good. Because this is really, really nice.
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I do still have one left from the order I made, although I have a very distinct feeling that
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might get stolen by my eldest. So there may be a fight over it, we shall see. But yeah, definitely
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I'll get eight and a half out of ten for the Scotch silly. And do you know what I'm actually thinking
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along the same lines as that for the Macshoof? I probably go along lines of eight and a half.
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I'm really enjoying it. It's very good. Had I not had the Gordon's Scotch ale, I may have done
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it higher. But to me, that Gordon's one is the the permical of the Belgian Scotch ale's. So I can see
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where I can see what I like it. I can see where I prefer the Gordon's version. I mean, this is
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obviously the danger. And this is why we recommend people do alter the scores if they feel it.
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You may try something and it blows you away. But then the more you drink it, the more you reduce
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okay, prefer that one over that one. They're not all five or five or ten out of ten,
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just as he. Yeah, I think probably had I tried this first. As the first ever Scotch ale from
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Belgium, it probably would have been full marks. But I think after that, after a good few,
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the discerning palette, I think I'm going to go up at eight and a half. I think that's about
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where it is. Pardon me. Okay, well a question for you then. Why didn't you go for the Gordon's
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for this? Because I specifically bought this for this and we did I did the Gordon's for the
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as yet to be unreleased reserve cushoof. Oh, of course you did. Yes, my apologies. Make sense.
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So yeah, all in all, that was a fairly successful review, I think, eight and a half each.
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So yeah, awesome. Yes, absolutely, yes. Okay, so did we decide we didn't have any feedback from
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previous shows to mention? Yes, we're very disappointed folks. No feedback as far as we can see.
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We went back with the overall shows. Very disappointing. So no new feedback at all. So if you do
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want to give us feedback, then please do leave us a message on a comment on the show. That's
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about actually know the best way is to actually record your own version of this show,
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that cus this is a community podcast. However, you can leave a comment on the shows and we will
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read it out. You can also message us on MasterDone. You can message us on untapped if you wish.
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The only problem is I'm liable to forget to read it out. I'm being perfectly honest.
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So if you want your comment for a day out, please leave it as a comment on one of the previous
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shows. And also, yes, that's the better way of doing it. Yes, and also, if you want to recommend
|
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any styles, then please do. Don't wait for the future style to come up like put a poster on the
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if I comment on like this show of Belgian scotchales and just say, hey guys, I want you to review
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so it will be or I want you to review whatever. If there's something you're actions and
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and I'm going to put the caveat of if we can get it because yes, there are some limitations. Actually
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there are a lot of limitations. I don't want to do beer and discredit because somebody wants us to review
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just to say, well, I'll just produce you for example. There's a beer in Britain called Ashai. Is it
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Ashai or Ashai? Do you know what I mean? I've heard of one of the code Ashai. Is that like a
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like a a log, a bottle typically sold in restaurants? It's it's a bottle. Yeah, and it's
|
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got a silver label. And it's full of either Chinese or Japanese, right? I'm not really sure
|
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because I'm not very fluent now. Yeah, that's the choice the same one. Yeah, probably is. And
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then when you actually read the very bottom, despite all this foreign writing on it, it says
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Bruden Britten. You know, so it's not really fair to say. And in the same way, I've had
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genuine Italian beer and Moretti and it's nothing like what we have here. So you do the
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disservice to say just because it's Bruden the country. Oh, this is what it must be like. Is
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this like drinking Guinness out side of Ireland? But yes, yes. Yeah, no, I get it.
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That is it. Awesome. Well, why don't you tell us what it is we're going to be reviewing
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next time. Oh, I'm continuing with some of the favorites of mine. Although to be honest,
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or the sex style, I've only relatively recently discovered, but I have taken a liking to it.
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And we are going to be continuing. I think as far as my word, this is the last of our winter
|
||||
warmers. So after this one, we should be coming out and maybe going to more spring beers,
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||||
but this is going to be a Baltic porter. Can also be called an imperial porter. So keep an eye
|
||||
it. If you want to actually get a hold of one and join in with us, then yeah, you're more than
|
||||
welcome. So we're looking for a Baltic or imperial porter. And I only hope I can find one because
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||||
trying to find the beers that you've suggested so far has been quite a challenge for me.
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||||
And before we start to be recording, I know Carol, I mean, I have too many beers anyway,
|
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but I don't have a Baltic porter. So yes, I'll be continuing with my search for a Baltic porter
|
||||
over the next week or two. But yeah, coming out of the winter beers and into a more springy
|
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style, I think the supermarkets will be a lot more forgiving to those styles, the lighter styles,
|
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than the darker ones. So let's hope. Absolutely. Right in. So join us again tomorrow for another
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