Beer Festivalage - The Facts
If you are interested in the beers lidbert and myself consumed last weekend they are listed
Name / Alcohol% / Brewery / Festival description / My humble opinion
Staropramen / 5.5% / Interbrew / Prague beer / always excellant on draught (served draught at Lee Brilleaux Memorial gig every year on Canvey Island - another reason for the pilgramage every spring.
Highlander / 4.8% / Loch Fyne / full bodied fruity beer with heathery tones / cracking pint
XXXB / 4.8% / Bateman's Brewery / brilliant blend of malt hops and fruit with a bitter bite over the top of a faintly banana maltness / what utter rubbish - this pint was bitterly forgetable
Old Goat / 8.2% / Cropton Brewery / Festival Special. Strong straw coloured with a sweet malty taste. Excellant flavours and good looks, just like the brewer!! / I would kill for this pint_star of the show. No really, the strength is masked very well and tastes fab.
Old Empire / 5.7% / Marstons / Stylish, copper coloured beer, malty and sweet with developing bitterness and a touch of sweetness / alright as real ales go - strength taste comes through
Yuel Regret It / 4.2% / Mighty Oak / no description / very pleasant and light
Two Pints / 4% / Cropton Brewery / A classic bitter providing a strong hoppy flavour / Just goes to show beer does'nt have to be strong. Re-visited this pint later in the evening. Very easy to drink and therefore lethal.
Wolf Ale / 3.9% / Wolf Brewery / Copper brew with a good mix of malt and hops / great name, great pint. perhaps one for Sir Knight of the Fox
Hampshire Rose / 4.2% / Light and bitter / Light relief not at all fruity or too hoppy though
Festival Special / 4.2% / Fernandes Brewery / Light hoppy bitter with a fruity aftertaste / I live for this type of beer. Jilly Goulden of beers.
I think the last one was Thrappledouser but equally could have been 3 Witches or Folly Gold. What ever, it tasted good - slightly darker than Fernandes Brewery's offering and almost as fruity.
The quantities are unknown and may not ever come to light, at least not for the next 30 years. My esteemed drinking colleague may wish to perform an addage to these notes, then again.........
from early to late evening.
Name / Alcohol% / Brewery / Festival description / My humble opinion
Staropramen / 5.5% / Interbrew / Prague beer / always excellant on draught (served draught at Lee Brilleaux Memorial gig every year on Canvey Island - another reason for the pilgramage every spring.
Highlander / 4.8% / Loch Fyne / full bodied fruity beer with heathery tones / cracking pint
XXXB / 4.8% / Bateman's Brewery / brilliant blend of malt hops and fruit with a bitter bite over the top of a faintly banana maltness / what utter rubbish - this pint was bitterly forgetable
Old Goat / 8.2% / Cropton Brewery / Festival Special. Strong straw coloured with a sweet malty taste. Excellant flavours and good looks, just like the brewer!! / I would kill for this pint_star of the show. No really, the strength is masked very well and tastes fab.
Old Empire / 5.7% / Marstons / Stylish, copper coloured beer, malty and sweet with developing bitterness and a touch of sweetness / alright as real ales go - strength taste comes through
Yuel Regret It / 4.2% / Mighty Oak / no description / very pleasant and light
Two Pints / 4% / Cropton Brewery / A classic bitter providing a strong hoppy flavour / Just goes to show beer does'nt have to be strong. Re-visited this pint later in the evening. Very easy to drink and therefore lethal.
Wolf Ale / 3.9% / Wolf Brewery / Copper brew with a good mix of malt and hops / great name, great pint. perhaps one for Sir Knight of the Fox
Hampshire Rose / 4.2% / Light and bitter / Light relief not at all fruity or too hoppy though
Festival Special / 4.2% / Fernandes Brewery / Light hoppy bitter with a fruity aftertaste / I live for this type of beer. Jilly Goulden of beers.
I think the last one was Thrappledouser but equally could have been 3 Witches or Folly Gold. What ever, it tasted good - slightly darker than Fernandes Brewery's offering and almost as fruity.
The quantities are unknown and may not ever come to light, at least not for the next 30 years. My esteemed drinking colleague may wish to perform an addage to these notes, then again.........
from early to late evening.