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At 30 quid for a 33cl I will most definitely pass! I like their balls out sort approach and marketing, but I think they should put more time in to their beer rather than their marketing. I've been disappointed with everything I've tried bar their Imperial stouts

I picked up a few bottles of The Physics in the Abbot Alehouse over Christmas and thought it was really good. Now that I've had more of their range I think their good stuff outweighs the bad. Given their style of marketing they're always going to get hammered when their beers don't live up to the hype but I think there is some substance to go with the style.

Well this is it, when you market your beer in such a way, you best make sure it is what you say it is. Regarding their Punk IPA and Hardcore IPA, they couldn't have been more wrong on discribing that beer! I had a bottle of Paradox Stout over the Christmas, and it was probably the best beer I have had in a long while. Bashing them would be unfair, they are pushing the boundaries and doing things their way, which has to be respected, but then beer has to be judged for what it is!

I truly LOVE Paradox Islay IPA; over vanilla bean ice cream it is AMAZING. There's definitely something to be said about using traditional, local ingredients and processes like a Scottish brewery aging their Imperial Stout in Whiskey Barrels.


I'd love to see a commercial Irish Peat-Smoked Dry Stout for the same reason. The smell of peat smoke is truely the smell of approaching Irish winter to me (based upon only 2 winters spent here).

I know Smoked beers aren't very popular (therefore commercially feasible) and peat-smoked beers are even less popular but there's just something about the idea of an Irish Peat-Smoked Stout that I really like... (Hey market it it to the extreme (and extremelyl profitable) US market and export it like crazy; as long as it's also available locally, I don't care.)


Adam

"Biertourist":uw16swg6 wrote: I'd love to see a commercial Irish Peat-Smoked Dry Stout for the same reason.[/quote:uw16swg6]That's pretty much what MM Imperial / White Gypsy Cask No. 1 was. And very good too.