Mine came from here.
Mine came from here.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Next up another single hop pale ale , Thornbridge Kasperia.jpg. A rather lively pour but settled down nicely, the hop is Cashmere and is more subtle than the previous Mosaic. The label on the rear of the bottle promises flavours of Lemon and Mango, I'm getting the Lemon, which I quite like in a beer, but little in the way of Mango. I probably should have had this before the earlier Kernel, but still a nice refreshing drink. 7/10
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Watching some TV so started with a Magic Rock Saucery (sic) 3.9% a bit of a disappointment really.
Then a Punk IPA, always palatable.
Now I've just started on a Thornbridge Jamestown 5.9%, very pleasant.
Next up will be a McEwan's Champion 7.3% in preparation for putting some music on.
Last week was mainly Reggae (Culture, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru) and The Smiths.
This week there may be some early Robert Palmer some John Martyn and a bit of Tom Waits along with whatever else I think of...............
Although as Ms CAMRA is at her Mothers, Nirvana and the Foos may well make an appearance.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 19-02-2021 at 21:01.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Well, here's a bit of an oddity that I picked up at Beer Central two weeks ago and hadn't quite summoned up the courage to drink it until now. Yes, it's a sour beer. Vault City Brewing Sloe Gin Sour 8.6%, to be precise. It comes in a heavyweight 375ml bottle with a big dent in the bottom - so a half-size wine bottle, in effect. Topped with a crown cap, although it looks like it would take a cork. It took a bit of an effort to lever the cap off, and it came with a bit of a hiss but fortunately no rush of foam. Any head in the glass rapidly dissipated, leaving a very strange looking opaque liquid the colour of a bruised strawberry, with a few bubbles continuing to rise to break gently on the surface.
Ingredients include sloes, of course, plus juniper, citrus zest and coriander in addition to the usual barley malt, wheat, hops and yeast. The malt is very well hidden, it's got to be said, and the hops are struggling against all the other stuff going on. This is only a moderately sour beer, tasting mostly of a gin and tonic with about six slices of lemon floating in the glass. There's a background of hedgerow fruit, but would I have identified sloe rather than damson or even blackberry? The blurb on the bottle describes the sloe as a berry, but in fact this is a drupe, the fruit of the blackthorn, which is a member of the Prunus genus, so related to damsons and plums. I suppose this means they didn't make any effort to take the stones out, then.
An interesting experiment, which I'm in no hurry to repeat. Not just because it's quite pricey - at £7.95 it converts to £2.47 per unit of alcohol, and bearing in mind that it's not exactly quaffable, you would do better buying a bottle of gin and liquidising half a kilo of plums if you just wanted to get loaded on a plummy drink. I've now had three sour beers in the last three months, so I think I'm going to have a little rest.
Come On You Hatters!
Did have an excellent Vault City sour last autumn, Gooseberry and Elderflower in The Jolly Fisherman, I had more than one but it was competing with possibly even better beer so didn't get a mention in my review.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Police report rise in large Covid lockdown parties in England.
Guilty as charged.
Come On You Hatters!
Sad to see U-Roy, pioneering Jamaican reggae artist, go a couple of days ago...