If you ever get near the carlisle area stop at market cross pub.I’ve been saying this for a few years now. I’m in PA
If you ever get near the carlisle area stop at market cross pub.I’ve been saying this for a few years now. I’m in PA
I’m down by the borders where PA, MD, and DE are all together. I do go to Hershey sometimes out that direction. In Lititz there’s a place called the Bull’s Head that is a re-creation of a British pub that is probably the closest thing we’ll find on this side of the ocean.If you ever get near the carlisle area stop at market cross pub.
Yessir! Love bulls head, wife and I are going there tomorrow actually.. it's definitely our favorite and it's about an hour drive for us.I’m down by the borders where PA, MD, and DE are all together. I do go to Hershey sometimes out that direction. In Lititz there’s a place called the Bull’s Head that is a re-creation of a British pub that is probably the closest thing we’ll find on this side of the ocean.
Brew some British Bitter yourself. I have dozens of recipes which I can share.I’ve been saying this for a few years now. I’m in PA. These days we don’t see much at all outside of Boddington’s in nitro cans and of course, Guinness. Yeah, Samuel Smith. Sometimes I can find Smithwick’s. We have one sort of local restaurant that does scotch eggs and stuff. They often have Smithwick’s on draft, There’s a British style pub in a town a couple hours from here. They had Bluebird Bitter on cask last time I was there.
But yeah, anything British has been slim pickings for awhile.
I actually have 5 gallons of best bitter just about ready to keg now. I brew it pretty regularly. Yep - I like to brew stuff I can’t buy or have a hard time finding,Brew some British Bitter yourself. I have dozens of recipes which I can share.
I might have to see if I can swing in there for lunch on my trip to New Holland next month.I’m down by the borders where PA, MD, and DE are all together. I do go to Hershey sometimes out that direction. In Lititz there’s a place called the Bull’s Head that is a re-creation of a British pub that is probably the closest thing we’ll find on this side of the ocean.
Paul from UK brewing supply was the guy that opened Bulls head pub in Lititz, he is quite a guy, I got the luxury of speaking with him when I was working on getting my beer engine up and running. He definitely did a great job recreating the British pub for us here.I might have to see if I can swing in there for lunch on my trip to New Holland next month.
Typically St.Boniface for pizza is worked in there, so maybe both...
Just to follow up, I’m at my store today. Here are the choices.Originally I thought I’d spend a couple weeks hitting the British brews imported into the US. After a beer shopping trip recently, I was taken back by the limited offerings available here. Samuel Smith is represented well, many of the others not so much. That being the case, I’ve decided to expand this out to include Irish and Scottish brews as I can find them.
Today I’m drinking a really fantastic Harp Lager. I see this is a division or subsidiary of Guinness, so they definitely know beer! This is a clean and delicious Golden Lager, not something you might be expecting with all the Ales famous in the British Islands. Boy this beer’s good!
The can says it all – this was developed by their German brewmaster in 1960 in the Pilsner style with a fruity nose and clean finish – 4.5% ABV, it also references citrus hops, whatever they are. I remember a couple years ago I brewed a Citra Pilsner, and it was an entirely different animal. This is a fantastic and chugworthy example, you can put this whole can down in 4 pulls. Cheers!
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Well @Rish Is stepping it up a notch so guess I'll join, on the right is a stout from @Agent, been saving it for a special occasion.. today's that occasion, donno what the abv is but it's up there, and a haze from treehouse on the left, after a shot of jameson triple triple that we picked up on a cruise ship.. cheers y'all
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Ope, @bailey mountain brewer drug me in for part of an evening before I got distracted again.
Currently up is my NOT-ZIMA that was informally judged as "too sweet and flavorful to be real ZIMA".
The filet was the most expensive bit. $27 a pound, the 2 steaks were about $28. I got a package with 2 lobster tails and 2 crab cakes for $23. They’re both little. $60 for a dinner for 2 we could not have afforded to buy out. I don’t feel bad.new rule: no more high quality photographs of food around dinner time. Especially when they contain crab cakes, steak, and some sort of surf.
This is just beautiful!So Pomegranite martini for Vanentine’s Day. With Steak Au Poivre (one of my all time favorites), small lobster tail, and Maryland crab cake. Maryland is 10 min from here and we get the real thing with lump crab. Oh yeah, we had green beans too. I love to cook. I just hate doing dishes.
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Let it lager for 90 days….I think...this damn lager is almostish/finally ready? Only my second lager, and I changed the hop bill on this one too moreso because I've just got to get rid of a wide variety of hops. 2 weeks in, it was really green, and hop burn city. 4 weeks in, had some what I'm guessing is acetaldehyde off-flavor with some pretty strong apple-y character to it. Today, I'm at 5 weeks and the hop burn is gone, the apple-y is almost...non existent but I can tell it's there.
It isn't a dumper, and really there are much worse off flavors to have to deal with. I know where I messed up. I had a brewday snafu, and the fermentation was interesting to say the least so between those two things, oddly enough my first attempt was MUCH better. It is nice to look at at least.
I can’t lie, I grab one of those every once in a while. I don’t love them by anymeans but they don’t taste awful and they genie job done. It’s what I usually grab when my wife ask for me to grab the blue can white clawsImpulse buy. I'm not an IPA kinda guy but I've seen this beer posted here, it was $3 for an Imperial pint of 9.5% beer, so what the heck! No noticable bitterness or malt, low carbonation, light body, citrusy. Tastes kinda like orange and tangerine juice, light beer, a couple of shots of vodka. Already affecting my ability to type!
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