A week or so ago I drank a beer from Oud Beersel, and generally liked it. Here's another:I'm sipping very sour kriek lambic. The standard kriek lambics (Lindemans, Timmermans, Boon) seem sweeter, certainly less bottle conditioned than this one (fair amount of sediment). The cherry taste is weak but lingers in the top-back of the mouth, not unpleasantly. The nose is typical lambic, but with a pronounced wet hay smell. You could almost describe it as a summer straw with sheep crap :D
Having said that, I enjoyed this beer. It is refreshing, the sour lambic taste works wonders on a hot day, and it is somehow more authentic than other krieks. Well worth trying.
Christmas beer? Well yeah it's a silly idea down here, but it makes sense in Europe. So another Belgian beer: Affligem Christmas, or Christmas Ale for the rest of us. It's strong (9%), syrupy, dark and tastes like Christmas pudding. Nah really it does, theres cherries, sultanas, golden syrup, that wonderful mouth feeling with pudding, all it's missing is custard (not that I'd recommend that). It was quite 'vigorous' when opened, but poured nicely - Adrian was driving so didn't have much. And I didn't realise it was 9% (figured around 6-6.5%). Anyway, definitely recommend it as a winter drink - not quite so good in the middle of summer !Movies:
Slumdog Millionaire : yeah the hype is right, it is very very good. Sure it's predictable, but it's well written, well directed, I'd say well acted - except most of them ain't actors - and definitely worth seeing.
Love, B
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