Here right now.
First half Snowdonia Ale from Purple Moose. A very pleasant start!
Friday, 10 August 2012
Great British Beer Festival
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Admirals Ale
Just enjoying this bottle conditioned ale. Rather pleasant, quite a smooth flavour, if a little fizzier than a draught
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
St Austell Brewery tour
Whilst in cornwall on hols I went on the St Austell Brewery tour. Have to say they have a fine selection of beers.
The tour itself was excellent, compared with others I been on they seem to show more of the process. At the end we had samples from four of their specialist bottles:
Admiral Ale: 5% ABV - good bottled beer
Smugglers: 6% ABV - liked this one, full flavoured and rich
Strawberry Blonde: 4% ABV not sure about this, for me this didn't seem to have the class of say a Belgium fruit beer
Clouded Yellow: 4.8% ABV - this is apparently great with curries and I can see why, have bought a couple of bottles to test out that theory ;-)
Then two tokens for two halves or a pint.
The two halves I had were Tribute and Proper Job, both of which I thoroughly enjoy but with very different flavours.
Tribute(4.5 ABV) is a great session beer and Proper Job (4.2% ABV) has just the right hint of citrus without it overpowering the bitter taste.
Some people may remember a beer called Tinners well this is being phased out and replaced by Trelawny, slightly weaker, but a great taste none-the-less, had a couple of these on with a meal out whilst away too!
http://www.staustellbrewery.co.uk/
Once again the west country comes up trumps!!
The tour itself was excellent, compared with others I been on they seem to show more of the process. At the end we had samples from four of their specialist bottles:
Admiral Ale: 5% ABV - good bottled beer
Smugglers: 6% ABV - liked this one, full flavoured and rich
Strawberry Blonde: 4% ABV not sure about this, for me this didn't seem to have the class of say a Belgium fruit beer
Clouded Yellow: 4.8% ABV - this is apparently great with curries and I can see why, have bought a couple of bottles to test out that theory ;-)
Then two tokens for two halves or a pint.
The two halves I had were Tribute and Proper Job, both of which I thoroughly enjoy but with very different flavours.
Tribute(4.5 ABV) is a great session beer and Proper Job (4.2% ABV) has just the right hint of citrus without it overpowering the bitter taste.
Some people may remember a beer called Tinners well this is being phased out and replaced by Trelawny, slightly weaker, but a great taste none-the-less, had a couple of these on with a meal out whilst away too!
http://www.staustellbrewery.co.uk/
Once again the west country comes up trumps!!
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