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- Aldeburgh
Ray your’re too good to not be working !Fish and chips en route?
only trouble is it eats in to my wine drinking forays
Ray your’re too good to not be working !Fish and chips en route?
I generally love all things VerdantThe latest Verdant Putty (not a full pint as rationed) was very good yesterday. It sells out instantly every year. Incredibly complex if you like that ridiculously hopped style. Newly iconic perhaps, certainly in craft beer circles.
Dan I would be grateful if you wouldn’t extol the virtues of this pub, busy enough as it is !
Who would believe a gem could exist so close to Nelson’s column. #harveys
In a cardboard box with chips and a free toy?Served in the manner of a McDonalds Happy Meal
Old school, not seen a pint like that in a long time.Marble brewery, Manchester. Manchester bitter in the Barking Dog pub, Urmston. Splendid.
A month later, but hey ho - agree with Tom that investment in the Sam Smiths bottles is worthwhile - from a mail order place in York I get a fairly regular drop of Taddy Porter, Nut Brown, Oatmeal Stout and Imperial Stout, the latter two of which certainly are be-ooo-tiful beers. If you like beers with a defined sweetness that is. Which I do. Apart from the Imperial Stout, they all come in joyous near-pint bottles in almost stereotypical Yorkshire orneriness.No-Sam Smiths pubs in London have gone right down the pan. Bottles are excellent, as indeed are all their bottles, just as well because they are expensive.
Interesting to read about Humphrey Smith, who seems to be a complete nutcase.
...but I certaiinly find these very different beers - one sweet, the other having (in the past anyway) an appealing sour note, to my palate. Isn't it supposed to have some "old" beer in it, which I assumed contributed to its pre-eminence / distinctiveness, or have I imagined that?Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout is quite lovely-I find it about ten thousand times better than Guinness.
And I suppose my vote for iconic pint / pint in its place would be a Tribute at the Chain Locker overlooking the bay in Falmouth.
A pint of Castle Rock's Elsie Mo (similar Munich malt notes I think) would also be good but I can't give anywhere particularly Nottinghamy to drink it. Ditto Landlord - in fact, I'm too scared to even GO to Keighley.