Beer?

[theclaud]

A minor pub crawl around Cambridge yesterday with a few reprobates ended up with a wide range of beer drunk, most of which I've forgotten. There was a Britannia bitter and a mild at the Free Press, a bottle of M&S six-malt Cornish stout to wash down a comparative gin-tasting, a half of Ridgeway from the Tring brewery at a pub whose name I've forgotten, and we ended up at the Eagle.

Things started badly when I had to point out to the barperson which the Guinness tap was, and the "bitter" turned out to be pale yellow. I should have guessed - it was a Greene King pub. I don't think anyone found anything really satisfactory. All of the various beers I tried were not altogether nice, and all of them tasted like the same basic recipe made out of any old crap lying around the brewery with a few extra handfuls of something else - usually cheap hops.

Shoulda stuck around after breakfast. Beer find of the weekend was The Mill. 8 handpumps with mostly obscure local ales, and a fridge full of excellent poncey stuff.

 

[theclaud]

Next up, Buxton Omnipollo Lemon Meringue Ice Cream Pale. I ordered a different beer than I intended, as there are two ice-cream series things from the same collaboration but only one was on the printed menu. This is a zingy sour, where I was expecting a very bitter beer with a vanilla finish. Lovely, although I remain intrigued about the one I thought I ordered...

 

[srw]

Shoulda stuck around after breakfast.

The police tend to frown on driving after beer.

 

[theclaud]

The police tend to frown on driving after beer.

Shoulda taken the train!

 

[nickyboy]

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Next up, Buxton Omnipollo Lemon Meringue Ice Cream Pale. I ordered a different beer than I intended, as there are two ice-cream series things from the same collaboration but only one was on the printed menu. This is a zingy sour, where I was expecting a very bitter beer with a vanilla finish. Lovely, although I remain intrigued about the one I thought I ordered...

That's a like for supporting our N Derbyshire economy. I'll try to find something by Tiny Rebel in reciprocation

 

[theclaud]

Like the majority of beers with lemongrass in, this doesn't quite work. It has all sorts of hops and malts in, but is less than the sum of its parts. Hotchpotch is the word that springs to mind. I think I was a bit too pleased by the label - I have three of them for the train...

 

[theclaud]

Trade

There's no one else with beer!

 

[Maverick Goose]

I don't think I've had a (meant to be) hazy beer yet, hazy evenings yes...

Warm evenings,pale mornings,bottled blues...

 

[User169]

In more trademark dispute news, I just saw on facepants that De Molen has fallen prey to the classic Chinese trademark scam. A local company has registered the De Molen logo and name and seems to be suing them for the trademark infringement so they aren't importing into China ATM.

 

[Doseone]

In about 3 weeks time I'm going here

The Cantillon brewery and museum in Brussells for some gueuze and lambic goodness. Can't wait.

 

[theclaud]

Last day to enter Pissed Modernism!

 

[User169]

Nrly 3 years ago...

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Could prolly dig out a similar foto from 25 years ago. My overriding memory of that place is finishing my 1a exams, downing 6 pints at the Mill and then going to a rehearsal for Balshazzers feast at Kings. Could barely put bow to fiddle.

Isn't the Maypole the place for craft beer these days?

 

[User169]

Having a beer I'm soppiswd to be boycotting in a bar I'm supposed to be boycotting.

 

[srw]

Could prolly dig out a similar foto from 25 years ago. My overriding memory of that place is finishing my 1a exams, downing 6 pints at the Mill and then going to a rehearsal for Balshazzers feast at Kings. Could barely put bow to fiddle.

"In Babylon Belshazzar the King made a great feast,
Made a feast to a thousand of his lords,
And drank wine before the thousand.

He commanded us to bring the golden vessels
Of the temple of the house of God,
That the King, his Princes, his wives
And his concubines might drink therein.

Then the King commanded us:
Bring ye the cornet, flute, sackbut, psaltery
And all kinds of music: they drank wine again,
Yea, drank from the sacred vessels,"

I'd say pissed was entirely appropriate.

In my first week at the other place I got back to my room after a lunchtime drinking session to discover I had thirty minutes to go before an audition for the main university choir. I gave the Bach to pre-prepare a once-over then was given a bit of Schoenberg (Friede auf Erden) to sight-read.

Somehow I got in.

 

[User169]

Somehow I got in.

Well it was only a choir.