Beers of the World 5 - Round Q

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:09

Hi everyone,

Rules: Beers of the World - Mk 5 *** RULES AND SIGNUP HERE ***

Q – Queen - Queen in the name or image on the label

Leaderboard

*Weringo 113
*Charlie Bravo 108
Ahleckz 104
*Repta 104
*Executive Beef 99
*Touch 98
*Bickaxe 93
*Martynt74 90
Sonea Fifer 90
Mike the Native 89
Russinating 86
Lysander 49
*Feek 19

*Jester played

Entries

Loving these entries!!

@Martynt74 , @MikeTheNative and I repeated our entries from round K, I have to admit I was hoping they wouldn't do that.
@Repta & @Russinating also repeat the same entry so Russinating's hopes played out there. I appreciated the music pairing.
@Sonea Fifer & @weringo also doing likewise.
Special mention to @Executive Beef for thinking outside the box, I was wondering if such a beer existed & also to @Feek to whom I awarded a generous bonus point for his reasoning.
@Ahleckz gets the 2 bonus points for his strong entry. Did you know about Meabh when you found it or was it luck?

Next round: R - Red ale (or ruby) - Self explanatory (28th August)

Bonus Points - 1pt for Weakest ABV (N/A beers will not count)

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:14

From Round K.

The rating hasn't changed since then, still 3.94 on Untappd. Still a good beer in the summer.

Feek · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:24

Bickaxe said:
also to @Feek to whom I awarded a generous bonus point for his reasoning.

Thank you

This is what I submitted and my reasoning is that she's a Queen of pop.

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:34

Feek said:
Thank you

This is what I submitted and my reasoning is that she's a Queen of pop.

Wikipedia has her as 'Queen of Dance'.

Feek · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:34

Bickaxe said:
Wikipedia has her as 'Queen of Dance'.

Either one works

Ahleckz · 22 Aug 2021 at 11:38

Ooooft! I managed to find a beer at half four. I was in a good booze shop, buying a bottle of ‘Honeybucket by Holy Goat’ as it had a bee on the label and I was going to claim it was a queen bee… as I was paying, and having spent 15 minutes looking at every beer they had, I asked “any chance you have a beer on with queen in the name?”. The shop worker next to the checkout guy had the bottle I bought in his hand. So complete luck.

I was going to play my Jester until @Sonea Fifer said he had a strong one and I bottled it.

It was £17… most expensive beer I’ve bought I reckon, yet to try it. I don’t really enjoy barrel aged beers…

Had to take a picture of it in the car on a fuel receipt (need to submit that to my employer so that’ll create some questions!) as I was very close to the deadline!

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 13:02

Ahleckz said:
Ooooft! I managed to find a beer at half four. I was in a good booze shop, buying a bottle of ‘Honeybucket by Holy Goat’ as it had a bee on the label and I was going to claim it was a queen bee… as I was paying, and having spent 15 minutes looking at every beer they had, I asked “any chance you have a beer on with queen in the name?”. The shop worker next to the checkout guy had the bottle I bought in his hand. So complete luck.

The bee would only have worked if it had a crown on. And the queen bee doesn't actually collect pollen/nectar so it would have been a peasant worker bee.
I read the name out to my missus, I can pronounce Meabh but wasn't sure on the Rua. Her instant response was "Queen Meabh?" I hadn't got to your 2nd pic at that point.
Rua is a translation of Marie apparently.

Sonea Fifer · 22 Aug 2021 at 13:24

Well done @Ahleckz on sourcing a suitable beer in time - you even got the strongest one as well

I must admit I didn't think anyone would duplicate my entry @weringo - mine was purchased from a small brewery in Dundee.

As I recall it was about £8.00 or so which is about right given the abv bearing in mind we have minumum pricing up here on based on alcohol content

Taste wise it was very sweet and the berries really popped out in the flavour. It's not one I would buy again though, and not one I would recommend either to be quite honest:

Charlie Bravo · 22 Aug 2021 at 13:36

I had a choice with this weeks entry... Queens of Outer Space or Rocket Queen. Glad I chose the latter.

I've not had it yet although I love the artwork on the can :cool:

Russinating · 22 Aug 2021 at 14:38

Could only find one beer so fine with the duplicate as it was that or nothing!

Martynt74 · 22 Aug 2021 at 14:54

Man if I’d known Queen related beers would’ve been allowed j almost bought one called Bohemian Raspberry but assumed it wouldn’t be allowed

weringo · 22 Aug 2021 at 15:52

Sonea Fifer said:
I must admit I didn't think anyone would duplicate my entry @weringo - mine was purchased from a small brewery in Dundee.

Likewise!

I've been meaning try try Holy Goat since they opened earlier in the year as they specialise in my favourite style (sours) and one of the founders also co-founded Vault Cuty who are excellent.

The beer is a great example of the flanders red style and it was nice to try a style which rarefly pops up outside of Belgium.

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 15:59

Martynt74 said:
Man if I’d known Queen related beers would’ve been allowed j almost bought one called Bohemian Raspberry but assumed it wouldn’t be allowed

This is why the theme was Queen and not THE Queen or A Queen. It was a subtle touch that I'm glad someone picked up on.
But it would depend on the artwork of the can/bottle as it would have to reference the greatest band ever in some way rather than just be a punny beer name.

Ahleckz · 22 Aug 2021 at 16:47

Sonea Fifer said:
Well done @Ahleckz on sourcing a suitable beer in time - you even got the strongest one as well

I must admit I didn't think anyone would duplicate my entry @weringo - mine was purchased from a small brewery in Dundee.

As I recall it was about £8.00 or so which is about right given the abv bearing in mind we have minumum pricing up here on based on alcohol content

Taste wise it was very sweet and the berries really popped out in the flavour. It's not one I would buy again though, and not one I would recommend either to be quite honest:

@weringo
Oft! So, I reached out to a Glasgow Beer Facebook group I’m a member of asking if anyone had any leads and I specifically suggested this as an option.

Well, a friendly owner of a great beer bar did have a bottle available in his private stash but wasn’t able to get it in time for the competition. Since he’s looked it out for me I thought I’d still go and pick it up and got it this afternoon !

Good thing is, I got it for a price of a pint for him!

Glad I didn’t get it in time!

Executive Beef · 22 Aug 2021 at 17:22

Wasn’t sure if this one would qualify, it’s only because it had the Freddie Mercury pose/jacket on that I went for it. Don’t think I would have picked up on the name alone for this round.

Picked it up a while back and have been looking for something else that’d qualify. Really struggles to find anything else at all. I’d call it desperation, but I’ll take thinking outside the box

Feek · 22 Aug 2021 at 20:29

Bickaxe said:
@Ahleckz gets the 2 bonus points for his strong entry. Did you know about Meabh when you found it or was it luck?

I'm not proud to fish for an extra bonus - Mine was 42% :cry:

And it changes colour when you add tonic

https://youtu.be/4UYtcWdLVX8

Jokester · 22 Aug 2021 at 20:41

What is this magic? I need to get some of that!

Bickaxe · 22 Aug 2021 at 22:27

Feek said:
I'm not proud to fish for an extra bonus - Mine was 42%

And it changes colour when you add tonic

https://youtu.be/4UYtcWdLVX8

Everyone loves a tryer. If only it was beer.....

MikeTheNative · 23 Aug 2021 at 10:04

I didn't plan to submit King Queen Knave again but failed in a trip to Bristol to get one with Queen.

Bickaxe · 23 Aug 2021 at 10:23

Realised I missed off the bonus point criteria for next week, we're not having any more of that awful N/A beer being submitted, not that I think an N/A Red Ale actually exists as its an acquired to taste to begin with and not many breweries produce with them these days.