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By: The sound of our own voices | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog

The sound of our own voices | Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:04:21 +0000

[...] given free samples of any of the beers we used; but we didn’t pay for the Oakham Green Devil that knocked our socks off the other week, which was donated by the landlord of the Star Inn from his personal [...]

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:42:20 +0000

Not tried the Nor’Hop but hopefully it will wend its way up here. I’ve always been generally impressed with Moor, but miss JJJ Ipa, which i think was discontinued. I have a bottle of Green Devil held for me at Beer Ritz, and this has whetted the appetite!

By: py0

py0 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:44:11 +0000

Green Devil was easily the best beer I’ve had this year. It just completely blew me away. I kept going back to the pub to see if they had any more but sadly it kept selling out before I got there.

Have to say, Oakham Ales seem to be an example of a brewery where the superb quality of their marketing is actually surpassed by the remarkable quality of their beer.

By: Darren Norbury

Darren Norbury — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:10:43 +0000

I gather there’s a Moor beer, possibly Nor’Hop, at the Blue Anchor beer fest in Helston this weekend. Two friends I was drinking with in the Star last night went there Thursday evening and sent it back because it was cloudy and smelt odd!
Justin Hawke, of Moor Brewery – an American – told the SIBA magazine earlier this summer: “Absolute clarity in a beer is a 100% UK perspective… In other parts of the world they prize cloudy beer and actually rate it above its clear counterpart in terms of taste and aroma.”
Armed with this knowledge, would my drinking buddies have taken a different stance? They’re used to drinking the Star beers which are at the opposite end of the spectrum and generally have crystal clarity, which punters seem to appreciate.
Getting the Great British Public to accept cloudy beer could be an uphill struggle. For geeks, however, it opens up a whole new world of variety…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:36:40 +0000

I love Green Devil – it was one of the beers that the less fanatical drinkers that I’d dragged along to the Ealing Beer Festival this year really went for, largely because it had that big cartoon-like tractor beam of aroma that you describe coming out of it (I remember one of them saying that they ‘weren’t used to beer actually smelling of something’). And they do it in 660ml bottles, which is always a bonus.