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What is your ‘emergency beer’?!
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September 14th, 2009CommentWhich of your favourite beers would you pick for your emergency stash?
A less than 140 character tweet led to a whole discussion in my brain earlier today, which I thought I’d share with the world at large (often a dangerous thing!).
Just in passing I mentioned to the twittersphere that I’d just had a bottle of Orval, a beer of such character and quality that I find myself falling in love all over and over again each time I try it.
The first reply I received on this topic was from @BionicLaura, a very interesting beer tweeter from across the Irish Sea. She replied saying that Orval was one of her favourite beers (ditto!) and that she has six bottles stocked up, ‘in case of emergency’.
Now my beer cupboard is pretty full right now, typically full of an array of beers, but weirdly not one of them would be in my top three or four beers. I rarely have more than one or two duplicates, but I usually have at least one of my all time favourites in there, one of those rare beers that you never tire off, that in the most desperate of times I would always be in the mood for.
So I got to thinking (all this in the space of a momentary deluge of Orval invoked inspiration) what beers would I pick should I have a secret stash somewhere in my beer cupboard? What bottles (or kegs or casks) would appear behind my secret door, perhaps hidden in my underground shelter or panic room?!
I’m getting carried away, but I guess the point is, what beers do you always come back to? What beers do you never want to be more than a beer-cupboard-door away from? Which ales do you want to always have a few bottles of within arms length should you need them?
9 responses to “What is your ‘emergency beer’?!” 
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Hard choice, i probably couldn’t afford to drink my top few beers as they are quite pricey, i do however like to keep Old Peculiar, some of the Hambleton ales and some of the cheaper more mass market ales kicking around.
ive always got Guinness and tetleys in the fridge too for real emergencies. (Quote)
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FletchtheMonkey September 15th, 2009 at 07:49
So @TheBeermongers has asked me to define emergency!
Good question, how about this:
1) Not-really-emergencies, when you just need a comforting beer
2) Apocolypse, what’s the last beer you ever want to taste?
How’s that?! (Quote)
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tania_nexust September 15th, 2009 at 20:35
Ooh now that is a difficult question … I like all styles so would find it very hard to pick some ‘favourites’, it’s a constantly-changing selection in my beer cupboard!
I always seem to have some Cantillon in, as I regularly pop over to Belgium, but it’s more of an ‘occasion’ beer than something I turn to regularly. I’ve also got a couple of boxes of beers I helped design & brew at Tunnel in Warwickshire, hoping to eke those out for a while.
I guess if I had the luxury of creating an emergency stash that was entirely to keep me entertained on nights when I’ve been snowed in or the like, I’d probably have:
Girardin Kriek
Some BrewDog
Purity
a German wheat beer or three
some Scottish bottled ales – Harviestoun, Arran, Williams Bros
some lovely dark ales tooIf I had to choose an “apocalypse is coming” beer, it would most likely be Orkney Dark Island on draught, though the Oakham Akenaten that I had on Saturday at Tamworth Beer Festival certainly made a very strong impression too!
Tough questions indeed, I’ll be pondering this all night … (Quote)
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FletchtheMonkey October 4th, 2009 at 19:31
@tania_nexust Some Purity would always be good, lovely ales. Ubu? What about fave William Bros?
@markdredge punk ipa is so drinkable, but Brooklyn EIPA would be my IPA I think if I could have one.
Or Goose Island. Or Halcyon. Or…there’s so many! (Quote)
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Lanesy September 14th, 2009 at 22:38