Kicking off the weekend with ...

Sounds like you've got it made! I reckon a typical pint in York is £3 or more (and can be a lot more for US craft or other unusual offerings). Although I'm excluding Sammie Smith's, who still do a very cheap pint.....

 

Spoons isn't too bad for ale. £1.50 for a pint of broadside the other month in my mates local one!

 

Nice one. There. It's opened and poured.
Wildcat is a good example of a Scottish bitter and on cask can be outstanding.

 

Funnily enough I bought Birds & Bees earlier. Never heard of Wildcat before. Let us know how it is!

 

Its really nice. Big snow white head, light clear yellow with fairly fierce beading, a complex nose of some honey, pink grapefruit and ginger and a reasonably long waxy texture on the tongue. A steal at £1.39 from Aldi.

 

You...you...show off! You lucky b*stard.

 

Onwards and upwards! Just cracked Struise Motuecha, which I bought back from Belgium (the Struise shop in Bruges is well worth a look by the way).

 

Most of their regular line-up is available; I didn't really notice anything missing. Obviously the experiments and one-offs won't be there. No Earthmonk, but I think they only release that occasionally? So perhaps 15-20 different beers?

Probably the pick of the bunch would be Kabert, which they had when I was there (haven't tried it yet).

It's also a tasting room - they had 3 'taps' available to try (these were actually plastic balloons in a fridge near the door, and who knows what they might have on when you're there).

Also, seek out de Bierboom - an interesting range of goodies on sale at decent prices....

 

Try and persuade your companions to visit 't Brugs Beertje - just tell them it's one of the must-see tourist highlights (which it is!). Daisy's bartending should accomodate every taste....

Bierdoom - if I ever brew an RIS I'm calling it that