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this time of year. These are our perfect beers for Christmas day.
It's Christmas Eve guys, i'm absolutely wacked i'm so tired i've been wrapping prezzies all day, and i've got one
little prezzie just for me. It's this little guy here. It's Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate
Stout. Let's crack it open eh? Very dark, which you would expect from a chocolate stout of course
Look at that, beautiful, it's very very malty let's give it a taste eh. Oh it's
wonderful, it's really rich and dark. Syrupy, it's a bit bitter but it's incredibly chocolatey.
Hasn't actually got any chocolate in it by the way, it's just a mashing process. It's
been triple mashed it's got six different malts in there, a special blend that Brooklyn
have put together and it's just wonderful. I think this is perfect, it's really going
to help me get off to the land of nod. Cause, erm, don't tell anyone but i'm a little bit
excited about Christmas day. Yay, it's Christmas morning, yeah i'll put the kettle on, actually
I won't put the kettle on. What I am going to do is have a beer. The kids have already
started trampolining on my head about an hour ago so I thought, i'll treat myself. I'll
have a Deus brut des flandres. It's a Belgian beer but it's made with French champagne yeast.
Ooh, fancy. It's very special, let's crack it open. Right, let's get this in the glass,
oh that pours so clear. It looks like champagne, look at those little bubbles from the champagne
yeast. Tiny little fizzers , there's apples in there it's really refreshing on the nose.
Let's dive in. Oh yeah, that's quite sweet. It's got an apple thing going on as well there
and full of Christmas spice. It's lovely, that is a great alternative to champagne on
Christmas morning. Welcome to our Christmas dinner, i've cooked up a big fat juicy bird,
stuck her in the middle of the table for you all to enjoy. And on that note, what better
beer to go with it than this lovely New World Saison from Buxton Brewery. Yes it's lovely,
it's light, it's fruity, it's hoppy, it's pretty much the best Saison made outside of
Belgium. You know what they say about that. Tis' the saison to be jolly. Oh it's a cracker.
Oh it's quite cloudy Jonny, it's super, super cloudy. Check it out. It's hazy it's completely
unfiltered, unpasteurised, as beers should be I believe. Oh that's mega hoppy on the
nose, that comes from the dry hopping process which really turbo charges the aroma. And
the taste is, is dry like a normal saison but it's extra hoppy like an IPA. It's wonderful.
But on top of that then you get all the fruity smells that come from the special yeast that
they use and all that together is going to cut right through the turkey and the heavy
sauces like the bread sauce. You really should try this with your Christmas dinner, it's
amazing. And for more great drinks ideas, subscribe to Drinks Tube. Oh my god, I am
so full i think I massively over did it on the turkey. Uhh, beer? Yeah. Why don't we
go for your favourite, Coniston Blue Bird. Now you're talking. So this is Coniston Bluebird
bitter, it's the best bitter. It's brewed on the shores of the beautiful lake Coniston,
in the English lake district and it's named in honour of Sir Donald Campbell's speed boat.
Yeah and it's a traditional bitter. It's got sort of that lemony character, lots of caramel
and malt but it's just got this gorgeous long finish. Just keeps going. Yeah i mean it's
nice and light, it's perfect really after a big meal. Yeah i mean it's a bit old man,
but it hits all the right notes. Yeah and it's amazing for crashing out in front of
the t.v with something awesome on. I've just tipped it down myself. So Christmas is nearly
over for another year, everyone else has gone to bed but i'm not going to bed until i've
had my special Christmas night cap. Every single Christmas at the end of the day, I
get a N'ice le chouffe and settle down in the sofa for a quite reflection on life. Now
this beer is Belgian. It's brewed with thyme and with orange peel so it's got a really
strong sort of fruity pithy aroma but it's caramalised and sweet and spicy as well. It's
a thinkers beer and that's exactly what i do when i drink it. It's got this dark, slightly
orangey raiseny kind of colour. Smells just like Christmas. Yeah, so that's just got this
amazing almost salted caramel finish, but that's tempered by the dark fruits that you
get in the malt but also by the fact that it's been brewed with orange peel so it's
just got a little bit of bitterness that comes through and that will make it incredible with
blue cheese or creamy cheese because it would act pretty much like a chutney and those two
things together are going to send you into a nice Christmas slumber. So there you go,
they were our perfect beers for Christmas day. Give em' a go yourself or tell us about
your perfect Christmas beers in the comments box below. And make sure you subscribe to
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