Tonight i'm on the Aldi £2.99 for 750ml swing top bottle (yay justifies the price)"Biere Triple" (3 grain) ..it's normally £3.30 per bottle 6% very smooth, having it with some sous vide pork medallions & air fry baked spuds that are very floury (aldi again)
Its a sweet, non gassy beer that warrants sipping from a glass, & decently chilled I unusually get enough taste out of this to split the bottle over 2 days / meals (that convenient stopper) if it were a wine it'd be in the dessert category, ..since innis & gunn changed the recipe of their original vanilla'd beer this has become my sipping mainstay.
Baked spuds rolled in oil, sprinkled with the fab cornish sea salt w/ garlic & some of the paprika salt (same brand) when split.
Peas & sweetcorn as the fast fix veg of choice, as We are now needing stocks in a broccoli farm, a semi steamed head of broc then thrown into the air fryer for 7 mins at full power, is cooked "crispily" ..if youd have fed me this as a kid I'd have been in raptures, try it out on a wee kid ..you may be surprised!
Finish with a bit of cornish flavoured salt (that entire head is mine, not for sharing) our dogs eat the main stalk, no waste
If you brew / have got a gin rectifiers license
this is a good bottle to have around (my collection is growing), or for making up a decent amount of vanilla exctract with a vodka such as absolut. my neighbours baby is now a year old so I'm able to prep her a nice bottle (using this swingtop) for all those pancakes, cakes, ice cream & biscuits mums make.. likely 5 years worth for your average baker, ..like anything decent vanilla extract is a pricey commodity these days.
Oh & a shout out for Gordons seville orange gin. ..lovely intense flavour & scent, not a novelty flavouring, had a snifter of that a few months ago, having been disappointed by so many gins that failed to deliver & this one actually stands up to be counted, no idea how big that spirit column bubbler must be, but plenty of nose & orange flavour to be taken seriously.