Here is the beer list:
http://www.jdwrealale.co.uk/static/p...tober-2012.pdf
Happy tasting
Here is the beer list:
http://www.jdwrealale.co.uk/static/p...tober-2012.pdf
Happy tasting
Already drawn up my provisional hit list:
1. Avery - 3 Point 5.
6. Harviestoun - Wild Hop Gold.
12. Caledonian - Devil's Advocate.
17. Roosters - Franklin.
29. Moorhouses - Ruby Witch.
34. Titanic - Golden Porter.
36. Brewsrers - Andromeda.
44. Feral - Austalian IPA.
Looks like Cascade is the hop of the festival.
A couple of things you can always rely on with 'spoons festivals: You'll have at least one beer in front of you where you have to double check the programme notes because it tastes nothing like the write up. Also, a beer you try, just to get the tick, when there are several 'available soon' clips, will give you a really pleasant surprise. Bring it on.
Golden Porter! Fascinating.
I think I can safely use a&h's shortlist as my starting point... :)
And one more thing guaranteed, you'll always have one beer where you have to check the program notes, and find that it's not there, despite being advertised as a festival ale on the pump clip.
Yes! Very true.
That one really gets on my tits. Plus, the variation where you haven't got a programme to hand and you check with a member of bar staff, who swears blind it's in the fifty. Later on of course, you find out it isn't.
The Beehive has made an early start, with half of their handpumps offering festival beers last night...
What currently annoys me most about Spoons is the fact that they have taken to stocking non-guest ales from the larger regional brewers, notably Fullers, Adnams and Nethergate. The Fullers London Pride and ESB where I have spotted tham have been a lot more expensive than the other stuff. I've got used to Abbot and Ruddles as permanent fixtures, so why have these other intruders? I don't mind seeing them if they are on the official guest or festival list and I don't dislike the wares of these brewers, but to me the only welcome intruders are small local (or relatively local) micros.
I'm off to three of the better local Spoons en route to the William tomorrow so I'll see what's what!
i have noticed in Cenral London as well that the big regionals are now selling there beer to Wetherspoon.Fullers refused to sell to them due to the low prices paid but now the central spoon,s pubs are charging nearly £3.00 a pint they can afford to pay Fullers prices.