New Top 50 beer from Struise

Originally posted by SilkTork


It’s a complex situation. But the UK splits are not just by cask and bottle. The splits are by cask and pasteurised. That situation NEVER arises in the USA. In fact it only happens in the UK due to our peculiar brewery history. It doesn’t happen in the UK with most micro breweries either. I’m currently drinking a bottle of Wylam Rocket which is cold filtered so that is not split from the cask version.

Originally posted by Cletus
The stupid Brewdog listings are a perfect example of that. When Captain Lawrence did something similar, the admins told us we could not split them.

Originally posted by puzzl

Originally posted by Cletus
The stupid Brewdog listings are a perfect example of that. When Captain Lawrence did something similar, the admins told us we could not split them.

That said, the Brewdog Paradox series shows a surprising amount of variety. A LOT more than any "different bourbon barrel" American beer I’ve had, including the CL SFTO Bourbons (I assume you mean those).

Originally posted by Fin
I thought that the idea from Urbain about increasing the amount of ratings that a top 50 beer needs in order to make the top 50 is quite a good one, if it was increased to 200 or 250 then it would zap quite a lot of the current crop. Interestingly it might also sideline those particularly bonkers beers that crop up entitled something like Old Crudingtons Oak Aged, Smoked, Bombastic Imperial Stout aged in barrels recovered from the Titanic and then flavoured with rare Peruvian Jabba Jabba beans and finally enhanced with a dash of Civet Phlegm, available only in a leap year and in a shed 58 miles from the nearest human habitation. Those beers would still be there and so could be rated but could be in a new area called circus oddity beers. Just an idea?

Originally posted by Cletus

Originally posted by puzzl

Originally posted by Cletus
The stupid Brewdog listings are a perfect example of that. When Captain Lawrence did something similar, the admins told us we could not split them.

That said, the Brewdog Paradox series shows a surprising amount of variety. A LOT more than any "different bourbon barrel" American beer I’ve had, including the CL SFTO Bourbons (I assume you mean those).

That can just as easily be attributed to the barrel itself rather than the brand of whiskey that was in the barrel.

Originally posted by kp

There was this same type of thread for the two non-bottled versions of Dark Lord. The vanilla bean version was off and on a couple of times before someone spoke up and mentioned it was still selling at the brewpub.

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
i may have asked this before but whats the ground for instant retiral of a beer. Quite a few from EBF and a couple from the Wetherspoons pub chain festival were retired when the festival closed.

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
Was the vanilla bean available off and on all year or just finishing off what was made for the Darklord day.

Originally posted by kp

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
i may have asked this before but whats the ground for instant retiral of a beer. Quite a few from EBF and a couple from the Wetherspoons pub chain festival were retired when the festival closed.

I believe it is when a beer is available for just one day at a special event like a brewfest, never to be seen again.

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
Was the vanilla bean available off and on all year or just finishing off what was made for the Darklord day.

It was available at the brewpub for a day or two after DLD, plus then showed up at some regional fests throughout the year (which is where I finally found it).