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
Waes hael!
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.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
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.
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
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!