Gerald Dorrity

What’s worse?

Flashback post. Remember when I used to post loads? Remember when citra was everywhere? Remember when Oakham was the peak? Well, it’s seems @LacadaBrew remembers. Cause this is a passionate 18 page love letter (front and back!) to those times.

“Oh yeah I love craft beer. Neck oil, Gamma Ray, oh and Ghost Ship!” I honestly haven’t even the patience to argue or correct them.

@RobJMacKay Somehow …

Palpatine

If I’ve learned anything from this past month in France is that they have a burgeoning brewpub culture that I hope does well for them, especially if they’re all as good as the few I’ve tried. Drinking Modable by L’Indé of Agen.

A mere 6 hours in Antwerp with the mission to find Black Albert. Pub A) Nope but great other selection. Pub B) @untappd has them listed as stocking it and being open for another hour. Electric scooter in the rain it is. Pub closed so no idea if they have it. Back to pub A) it is!

I’ve been back in my preferred job as an actor for some time now but passion for Indy beer will never leave me. Tonight I brought the cast to @beerdistrictbux (hope that’s the right tag) and they loved it. Inches at a time folks!

Drinking Portrush beer in Portrush by a roaring open fire on Christmas Eve. Letting the stresses of the year just melt away. Thanks @LacadaBrew for making probably the best core beer in the north!

As nicknames go I’m pretty pleased with it.

Oh no, the hotel I’m staying in in Fulda tonight is 2 minutes away from a brewpub I didn’t know existed. Very nice hefe Weisse. Very light but just what I need after the day I’ve had. #brauhauswiesenmuhle

Man at bar in Verona - “There’s something wrong with this one… it’s empty” *LAUGHS LIKE ITS THE FUNNIEST THING ANYONES EVER SAID!* -sigh-

@PintsandPanels I had many many beers in a building that was once a mental health asylum, and is now a secondary school all in east London.

@RobJMacKay @Seanaldinho Dodgy dealings? In beer? IN SCOTLAND?!?! I’ll hear nothing of the sort.

@Seanaldinho @Drinking__Games Oh yeah, they did do another one first right enough. Snake Venom was the one they were adding ethanol to, without a compounders license 😆

Not gonna name the beer but, if at the tasting stage your beer evokes, not so much a summer meadow, but more the contents of a lawnmower bag left in a shed all summer… maybe… don’t release that beer?

@RobJMacKay @Seanaldinho That’s the one. Thought he was avoiding the name but you haven’t so there we are haha

@Seanaldinho @Drinking__Games Snake Venom?

@Seanaldinho It was, but also great. Back before big beer got its fingers in everything, there was hope that the big boys could be toppled. Instead, breweries just got beg enough to be swallowed…

P…pickled onion in the lead!?! Come Oooonnnnn

@Seanaldinho It is! It’s fucking awesome! If I was the only person here I’d be taking pics all along the bar!

Another day another great brewery without a Twitter account so I can’t tag them. Currently in Lovecraft in Nantes drinking a lovely smooth prickly fruited sour from #1989Brewing on the coolest bar counter of all time.