Roasted Nuts for Christmas

 I love the products of  Rebellion Beer. I love their beers all time of year, but especially come Christmastime, because they really have perfectly seasonal ones. So yesterday, we went to a day out at the petting zoo, our first Christmassee day out, and I saw they were selling Roasted Nuts. Roasted Nuts is available all year round now, but it truly is a Christmas beer in my eyes. So I had half a pint, because that was the only format they were selling it into. On a cold day like yesterday, it's a pleasure.

Roasted Nuts, the socks

I love when you can kill two birds at the same time and enjoy both beer and clothes shopping. Although I hate clothes shopping usually, mind you. But I am a fan of Roasted Nuts from Rebellion Beer. And they now sell socks with the colours and squirrel of the beer label. So I can now buy beer AND socks, at the same time. And I always need more good socks. So I am now the happy owner of a pair of Roasted Nuts socks.

Roasted Nuts for the Season

This is one of my favourite beers when winter comes and Christmastime is here: Roasted Nuts from Rebellion Beer. This year, it took my until last Saturday to have my first. And it was in an open market, and it was a free sampling from the brewery. I had less than half a pint of Roasted Nuts, for free. I am a bit ashamed to admit it. Now, the Marlow Brewery has it all year round, but it truly is a winter ale, maybe even the winter ale. In my opinion, it can only be fully appreciated on a crisp cold day, when you want to put yourself in the Christmas spirit, or simply enhance the feeling you already have. Next time I will need a full pint.

'Tis the season to be drinking

When Christmastime comes, we all have our favourite poisons. Mine is Roasted Nuts from Rebellion Beer. Sure, I enjoy mulled wine now and again, but I truly am a beer drinker and this is my beer for Christmas. I start drinking it as soon as it is available, in fact I drink it through the winter, as it or through what the English people call winter. But especially at Christmas. It is my poison of the season, available in many pubs around the South East. There was a stand from Rebellion Beer yesterday at the local outdoor Christmas market and they were serving some of their products for free, including a new seasonal ale, which was all right, but I truly went to the stand for the Roasted Nuts sample. And more, as they kept refilling my glass. Again and again. The guy serving me explained that it was pointless keeping the beers in the barrels and it was for us all to enjoy. I love the attitude of this microbrewery, their generosity very much in the spirit of Christmas.

On Bonfire Night

I am back from Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, which I care little about usually. I spend it at home more often than none, but my wife convinced me to go (mainly because it was held at the school where she works). And I was surprised to enjoy myself quite a lot. Fireworks were late and it was short, but maybe when it happens in midweek, it is the way to do it. Anyway, what I love most about Bonfire Night is not the fireworks, but actually the bonfire. I LOVE bonfires, the smell of fire in the November night. Simply priceless. It makes me enjoy November, which is not small feast. There was one disappointment: I usually have Roasted Nuts on Guy Fawkes Night, which is one of my favourite beers down this side of the world. Sadly, they had already sold out when I went. So instead, I settled for mulled wine. My first mulled wine of the year. So not all was lost.

La bière du vendredi soir

Je suis en train de boire une Roasted Nuts de Rebellion Brewery, la brasserie locale. Je commence ma fin de semaine du bon pied, avec une bière de qualité. Elle est un peu anachronique: c'est une bière d'hiver, quoique la température commence à devenir de plus en plus froide. Je suis gâté ici en tant qu'amateur de bières: en plus de la brasserie locale il y a une douzaine de microbrasseries (j'exagère, mais à peine) tout autour qui fournissent une aussi importante variété de produits. Cela dit, je m'ennuie des bières québécoises. Les produits des Brasseurs du Nord ne sont pas mes préférés. Cela dit, une bonne Boréale rousse bien honnête en apéro, avec disons un roast beef ou une fondue chinoise comme souper, bien ce serait très plaisant. Je sais que ce billet est d'une ineptie affligeante, mais c'est ça qui est ça.

Une pinte de bière (bulles)

Bon, finalement j'ai réussi à télécharger les photos (je craignais le pire). Je n'ai pas été très original: essayez de trouver des bulles en Angleterre. Dans leurs breuvages je veux dire. Alors voilà: une pinte de Roasted Nuts de Rebellion Beer. Une microrbasserie locale et une bière saisonnière que j'aime particulièrement (disponible ce mois-ci encore). Étant un amateur de bières, une photo d'une pinte anglaise dans un pub anglais s'imposait. Et il y a des bulles. Si, si, même s'il y en a peu, il y en a: regardez le chapeau de mousse.

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