Beer of the Week (w/e 24 April 2011)

[Wittenden]

A very good week for beer as I wasn't working, lots of very good beers but an unexpected winner from Brains was MILKWOOD - a traditional malty bitter, slightly bitter-sweet but very drinkable.

"To begin at the begining:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black,
the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters' - and rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
The houses are blind as moles
(though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles)
or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfounded town are sleeping now."

Thanks OB-that's enough to drive me to Wales to try Milkwood!I've already described 2 beers as bibleblack this year.
No pub, again, this week! Consoled by Gadds No 3.