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22-01-2011, 17:21
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF38d1UTI/AAAAAAAAAb0/VxSxEkWfaiE/s200/butcombe_bitter.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF38d1UTI/AAAAAAAAAb0/VxSxEkWfaiE/s1600/butcombe_bitter.jpg)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF_ePNUzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/VdD5DTeqxqE/s200/sun+lik.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF_ePNUzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/VdD5DTeqxqE/s1600/sun+lik.jpg)I’ve expressed my liking before (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/09/heading-south.html) for Butcombe Bitter, a beer that for me is always associated with being on holiday in the West Country. It’s a distinctive bittersweet copper-coloured beer with a strong hop character and a kind of earthy, rustic note. Apparently it was the biggest selling draught beer brand in the UK not available in bottle, but that has now been rectified (http://siba.co.uk/2010/10/butcome-bitter-lauches-in-a-bottle/). (The speling misstakes in the hedding are quite amuseing) I picked up a bottle from Morrison’s the other day. It’s stronger than the cask, at 4.5% ABV rather than 4.0%, but otherwise seems to have much the same character. This will definitely be a repeat purchase.
Another interesting bottled beer I picked up in Morrison’s was “Sun Lik Chinese Beer”, at a bargain £1 for 500ml of 5.0% ABV. This has a deliberately naïve-looking label that suggests a genuine Chinese import, but on closer inspection it turns out to be brewed under licence by Shepherd Neame in Faversham. With rice as a declared ingredient, it’s an inoffensive, sweetish but surprisingly full-bodied lager that would be ideal for washing down Oriental food, but is never going to really challenge the tastebuds.
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF38d1UTI/AAAAAAAAAb0/VxSxEkWfaiE/s200/butcombe_bitter.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF38d1UTI/AAAAAAAAAb0/VxSxEkWfaiE/s1600/butcombe_bitter.jpg)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF_ePNUzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/VdD5DTeqxqE/s200/sun+lik.jpg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jsZenwUdpfo/TTsF_ePNUzI/AAAAAAAAAb4/VdD5DTeqxqE/s1600/sun+lik.jpg)I’ve expressed my liking before (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/09/heading-south.html) for Butcombe Bitter, a beer that for me is always associated with being on holiday in the West Country. It’s a distinctive bittersweet copper-coloured beer with a strong hop character and a kind of earthy, rustic note. Apparently it was the biggest selling draught beer brand in the UK not available in bottle, but that has now been rectified (http://siba.co.uk/2010/10/butcome-bitter-lauches-in-a-bottle/). (The speling misstakes in the hedding are quite amuseing) I picked up a bottle from Morrison’s the other day. It’s stronger than the cask, at 4.5% ABV rather than 4.0%, but otherwise seems to have much the same character. This will definitely be a repeat purchase.
Another interesting bottled beer I picked up in Morrison’s was “Sun Lik Chinese Beer”, at a bargain £1 for 500ml of 5.0% ABV. This has a deliberately naïve-looking label that suggests a genuine Chinese import, but on closer inspection it turns out to be brewed under licence by Shepherd Neame in Faversham. With rice as a declared ingredient, it’s an inoffensive, sweetish but surprisingly full-bodied lager that would be ideal for washing down Oriental food, but is never going to really challenge the tastebuds.
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