UK Weekend Beerage

Fairport Convention's cover of The Way I feel is probably the best cover of all time

for the record


or was it fotheringay


I'm too drunk to remember

 

Sly Fox Phoenix Pale Ale, not bad.

 

Went on holiday to Coniston in 1998 and of course spent a lot of time in the Black Bull. I was so impressed by the Buebird thar when I got back I slipped into the Rose and Crown to tell the landlord about it. He said he would try to order some.Unfortunately the next day Bluebird was voted CBOB at the GBBF and getting hold of any was impossible.
The Rose & Crown at Hose was an early (80s) example of a pub specialising in microbreweries. Although out in the sticks (population ca 500) with an excellent other pub down the road it managed to sell 8 cask ales in perfect condition.Nowadays it sells just 5 because the whole area is stuffed full of similar pubs.

 

Off to Brussels over the weekend so should be drinking some decent ones!

 

EPIC Brainless Raspberries 'Belgian Style' but at 9.9% just a bit too much alcohol

 

Last night it was petanque at the Crown Inn, Sproxton.An idyllic spot with some of the most attractive stone built villages that I know of to drive through on the way.A perfect summer evening except that we lost.Never mind, the Grainstore Metatarsal was excellent.Proper beer which doesn't taste of grapefruit but of actual hops.


This lunchtime it was a return to the Nags Head at Harby for a pint of Cumberland followed by Marston's New World. A hint of grapefruit but still a decent well brewed pint.

 

Gordon Lightfoot is on a singer songwriter compilation program on bbc4 at 2am the neet

 

I just don't get these guys' rep. Distinctly average on every encounter.

 

I've had the peaches and thought it was interesting.

 

World Cup on soon. Will probably drink something English to get in the flow. Probably a Hardknott beer like a Rhetoric or something.