So, here are my favourite albums of 2009 – as of now.  It is in vague order of appreciation, although don’t pay too much attention to the order as they are all fantastic.

  1. Blut aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
  2. Nautic Depths – Siberian winter
  3. Mathias Grassow & Tomas Weiss – Quiet Calling II
  4. Arktau Eos – Ai Ma Ra
  5. Mathias Grassow – Transpersonal
  6. Steve Roach – Afterlight
  7. Troum – Eald-Ge-Stréon / Abhijňâ
  8. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Succubus
  9. Wardruna – Runaljod – gap var Ginnunga
  10. Isis – Wavering Radiant
  11. Fall of Efrafa – Inlé
  12. Steve Roach – Immersion: Four
  13. Kylesa – Static Tensions
  14. Raison d’être – The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
  15. The Ruins of Beverast – Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
  16. Zu – Carboniferous
  17. Yhdarl – Drone Nightmares, Part II: Buried Burnt Earth
  18. Devin Townsend – Addicted
  19. dredg – The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
  20. Tombs – Winter Hours
  21. Cobalt – Gin
  22. Urfaust – Einsiedler
  23. Steve Roach – Dynamic Stillness
  24. Skagos – Ást
  25. Sun of the Blind – Skullreader

I tried a lot of fantastic beers in 2009, so here are my favourite bottled beers that were new to me:

  1. Thornbridge St Petersburg Highland Whisky Reserve
  2. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
  3. Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition
  4. Thornbridge St Petersburg Speyside Whisky Reserve
  5. Thornbridge Alliance PX Reserve
  6. Thornbridge Alliance Madeira Reserve
  7. Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
  8. Rochefort Trappistes 8
  9. Ayinger Weizen-Bock
  10. Struisse Pannepot
  11. Spire Xtinguisher
  12. Moor Old Freddy Walker
  13. Thornbridge St Petersburg Imperial Russian Stout Islay Whisky Reserve
  14. Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
  15. Anchor Old Foghorn Ale

…ditto for Cask Beers:

  1. Thornbridge Handel
  2. Marble Ginger
  3. Brewdog Paradox Isle of Arran
  4. Crown Ring Of Fire
  5. Spire The Wall
  6. Thornbridge Cherry St. Petersburg
  7. Crown Wood Street Porter
  8. Thornbridge Alliance
  9. Fugelestou Sledgehammer Stout
  10. Thornbridge Halcyon

…and again for Ciders:

  1. Dunkertons Black Fox Organic
  2. Sheppys Dabinett
  3. Newton Court Medium Dry

I was tempted to carry on with a list of spirits and one of honeys…but I think that’s quite enough for one day.

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