Rob Sterowski

A glass of beer

With 19/30 of the #Spoonsfest beers now ticked, Moorhouses Quintessent is one of my stand out beers. Ovaltiney malt and the wonderful fruity, woodland flavours of the new wave English hop Harlequin.

Panda Pops bottles aren't allowed any more Craig

There are British citizens being held in a torture centre by Israel right now for breaking absolutely no laws and they have faced no judge or jury. Keir Starmer has said this is "a matter for Israel" - Keir Starmer puts Israel before the British people and should be hounded out of office for it.

In case you missed it, Suzi Quatro and Alice Cooper have made an album together. Also, unrelated, Germans are gathering in public to eat instant dessert with forks.

I still remember Sculpin on the US bar at GBBF and how glorious it was

Could all the "hoppy beers don't work on cask" people line up along the side of this pub please

Pints of foaming cask ale in a cosy pub

Alesmith IPA on cask for GBP 2.49 a pint? Don't mind if I do. #spoonsfest #RyanFuckingCrisp

Four glasses on a table with different beers in them

Just started on the #Spoonsfest beers. 4/30 done, leading so far is JW Lees Born to Brew. I could have several of that.

There is no such offence as love in the third degree, and I am rather surprised the CPS let it get this far. Case dismissed.

If they think the people being massacred will be reluctant to accept, it must be a really really bad plan

This pub's idea of Irish atmosphere is Dublin prices! £5.72 for Tennents !

The remarkable thing about cherrywood smoked malt is how much the fruit flavour comes through in the finished beer

With all the stories about how hospitality is suffering, it's good to hear that the Loch Lomond Arms in Luss is doing so well that it can casually turn away 30 customers who just want a pint of beer.

Ah, the old Spoons bait and switch, which is against stated company policy, but somehow keeps happening over and over again up and down the country.

It's lovely but surely not big enough unless the event is severely scaled down

Screenshot of: "S c i e n c e A d v A n c e S | R e S e A R c h A R t i c l e1 of 10B I O L O G I C A L A N T H R O P O L O G YEthanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzeesAleksey Maro 1,2*, Aaron A. Sandel 3, Bi Z. A. Blaiore4,5, Roman M. Wittig5,6,John C. Mitani7, Robert Dudley1,8Human attraction to alcohol may derive from an evolutionary association between ethanol and fruits consumed byanimals in nature. Fermentative yeasts are widespread in the terrestrial biosphere, and simple carbohydrates un-derpinning ethanol production are commonplace within fruits. We determined ethanol concentrations withinfruits representing a substantial portion of the diet of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees. Ripe fruit pulpfrom 20 angiosperm species in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda contained an average value of 0.31 (± 0.21 SD) and 0.32%(± 0.20) ethanol (weight/weight), respectively, as scaled by annual chimpanzee feeding time per species at eachsite. Chimpanzees typically eat ~4.5 kilograms of fruit per day, corresponding to an estimated ethanol ingestion of14 grams (±9), or the equivalent of 1.4 (±0.9) standard drinks by international standards. These findings are con-sistent with the hypothesis that ethanol is widespread within tropical fruits and that modern predisposition to al-cohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates."

Last week a paper came out, showing that chimpanzees daily consume significant amounts of alcohol. A thread where I walk through why the paper matters, then the paper itself.

I couldn't possibly be so indiscreet but yes

If you thought Trump was rude to Zelensky, wait till you hear beer writers grilling a Czech brewer who dares to allow oxygen near his mash and persists in clinging to decoction and whole cone hops, despite American homebrewers believing that those things are unnecessary.

They are very good but rarely does a British version even from one of the best breweries achieve the Horlicksy malt character the Bavarian ones have. Only a handful manage it. I don't know the reason.

What do you think it says about them? That they know how to behave in a pub?

Some interesting chat that some fresh hop cask beers might make it to Glasgow this season. Very intrigued. Would enough people be interested?

Heheheheheheh BOOM BOOM!

Too esoteric for me, what are Manitoban flavours?

Is that a 20L barrel? They don't seem to be expecting many guests!

5 out of 30 beers in the JDW autumn festival are using new British hops — Harlequin, Ernest, Olicana, Jester. Progress?

I was about to guess Dornbusch.

Prost!

Can't Heineken bring it in themselves? Are Cave Direct being used to conceal who brews it?

A glass of twiggy slop for old men

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Little Hassan

Little Hassan died after being prevented from leaving Gaza for treatment by Israel. In this video filmed by Moaz Abutaha, also killed by Israel, we see Hassan smiling and sending a kiss.

I won’t shared the video of Hassan’s corpse here - Obvious trigger warning www.instagram.com/reel/DOrNySh...