– a Mad Goose already though

I have in my hand a bishops finger

Fuller's Discovery, one of my favourites. Nice pint on tap in the Old Joint Stock in Brumidgum city centre.

5.5 pints of Hogs Back beer, fresh from the brewery @ £1/pint 🙂

Riggwelter for me, before starting on a bottle of Zinfandel.

OOOOHHHH I had riggwelter on wednesday night, struggled to shake the head on thursday morning, lovely stuff

Asda were selling Rig. at £1/bottle recently (and Old Peculier also)

I do like Mad Goose. Might have a Spitfire later or St peters.

Red Cuillin Ale

Peroni in hand but there's a chocolate stout in the kitchen I'm thinking of trying before the red wine comes to to play. It's calming my nerves while I try and lay down a funky house drumbeat in Reason.

i 'kin love bath ales

Purity are one of my fave new breweries. The UBU is ace! Butty Bach, Hare and Meantime, all good. Well done.

I'm starting on one of these;

Man beer. 😉

Then there's a Summer Lightning, a Hog's Back TEA and a Brains SA Gold. Almost like a greatest hits!

purity is 20 mins from my house 🙂

St Peters Golden Ale *2
Brains SA Gold *2

Both reduced at Waitrose 🙂

djglover, great minds, eh? Waitrose have a smashing range of beer these days. Almost as good as the Spar in Machynlleth, which is superb by the way!

One bottle of Old Empire and one bottle of Hobgoblin, went for strength and flavour over quantity.

Becks for me this evening!

(On offer at the local garage a couple of fields away.)

St Peters Golden Ale here too – nice selection of St Peters in my local Budgens

and my favourtie beer at the mo

Sampling a Pickled Partridge here – quite partial to the Badger ales!

4 x Enville, 3 x IPA at lunchtime. Happy daze

AHHHH, Barnstormer, have one awaiting, after my vino rouge….Bath Ales are bloody good, one of my favs at the mo, after….Old Hooky.

Bath ales are superb. Majestic Wine Warehouse sell them by the case at a very reasonable price.

Favourite brewery is still Meantime. Worked serving/drinking them last summer. The coffee stout and raspberry grand cru are just amazing!

Unfortunately for me i'm on a gluten free diet at the moment so cider is the order of the day. Gaymers generic piss for tonight. Wish i had some Westons tho!

I love that Meantime wheat beer!

And living in Bath definitely has its benefits 😀

Deuchars IPA

Just off to the pub now.

Bath Ales are indeed great, but they're not quite as good as either

or

But then, I may be a little biased!

Probably 😀

Former employees not eligible 😉

Deuchars IPA is amazing!

Pronounced 'doo-shars' nowadays you know!

allthepies, I'll have you know that my time at Bunce's (as it was then!) means that I really can organise a pi55 up in a brewery! It's not that hard…!

😉

Were you "hands on" at the brewery or some office marketing type bod ?

<plans future career as brewer>

Just found this little fella in the fridge.

Bonus

Take it back, the label's on backwards 🙂

allthepies, I was very much hands on and indeed hands "in". Stig, who took over, has been brilliant at keeping the brewery as a real "craft" brewer. Beers made by good honest work, getting your hands and working with the hops, the malts etc.
Not a big place!

It was a lovely time, mixing it all together, and then watching as the magic happened. Much like making bread, making beer is some kind of natural magic!

Oh yes, I understand! I've got a microbrewery in the garage 🙂

Take it back, the label's on backwards

😆 I didn't notice that, I was being lazy and took the pic on my webcam, not sure why it mirrors stuff…

I forgot to buy a crate of Hawkshead Gold when I was at Wheelbase earlier today so am having to make do with a 750ml bottle of Leffe.

I'm aaaf it tonight.

Tomorrow, however, is an entirely different proposition. I have (from memory):

Titanic Stout
Hogsback brewery stout – the name of which escapes me
Hawksheads Broadies Prime
Dent Porter
Ulverston Laughing Gravy
Academy Ale (Westmoreland)
Erm… something from the lot that do Tag Lag which is dark
And a few more dark ones
And a case of Jennings Bitter. There are only 2 each of the other lot… think there was 30 bottles total.

Then we shall decamp to the pubs – The Swan has a rather fine selection on at the moment, The Mill is £2 a pint until the end of the month, also with a good selection…

May try a pub I aint been into yet if we get the chance, which I am led to believe has some fine ale in. Which would necessitate a stagger into the Stan Laurel on the way back past 😉

Sobriety will be futile. He he he he he. I fear a kebab may feature at some stage too….