Jubilee Weekend Drinking

Had me 1st and last beer of the weekend, a Brakspear Trippel.

 

I'm at the Norfolk coast at the moment so it's all been Adnam's, GK and Woodforde's beers in a few different pubs and my clubmBloody expensive here at around £3.40 a pint except GK IPA at my club for £2.75
I did bring a dozen bottles with me but haven't been reduced to drinking any yet.But if the rain continues to hammer down I'll stay in and risk an 1845 or two.

 

Yeah, not a brilliant beer by any stretch but passable, not one i'll hurry back to. Maybe i should have drank it sooner as the hops didnt really make an appearance. Liked the caramelly dried fruit thing it had going on though.

 

I was on the Broads a year back and Woodforde's was pretty much all i encountered. I remember their beers being a lot tastier and interesting back in the 80s, or maybe that's just me.

 

There seems to be pretty general agreement that Woodforde's seems to have lost a lot of its character of late.It just doesn't have the zip and zest it once had. Different brewer or a side effect of a brewery upgrade ?

 

The weekend wasnt a TOTAL washout.....

Another beer run today
Brodies Kiwi IPA
Hardknott Dark Energy Stout
Tempest Face With No Name
Tempest Double Cresta Stout
in The Bacchus and Lady Grey's

and

 

Where the heck do you get that stuff?

 

I knaa a bloke like knaaworrimean?

http://www.ales4you.co.uk/

@Coppers8till8

 

I used to love Wherry, circa 2002/3/4

Had it a few months back and it didn't appear to be the same beer

I also said this about York's terrier, another beer I hadn't had for many years, that I sampled a month ago

Zip and zest describes what they both lacked well

In conversation with my drinking partners when on the Terrier, most folks thought it was due to my changing palate and that I drink much hoppier beers than I did 10 years ago

But interesting that Woodfordes has come up in conversation also!

 

What about the arbor ales? I really want to try a few more of them.

 

yeah Arbor are at Coppers, they just cant keep on top of updating their website with all the deliveries they get in.
They have Down Deeper DIPA, Goo Goo G'joob, Artisan, Mild West, Bushcraft, Brigstow as far as i can recall. Just hit up Drew on their twitter account They have some new NZ beers from 8 Wired brewery in atm too.

 

Ah ok. Should be ok, hopefully they sell bottles direct from the brewery (i'm guessing they have a shop) which I can get too for a few quid

 

Local beer fest sold off stillage beers at a pound a pint. Ascot Alligator and Summer Wine Barista. I came home to a fridge full of M&S Summer IPA (Adnams American IPA).

I am almost fucked into a cocked hat.

 

So far....
Carling Zest (oh yeah), Sierra Amber and an Alnwick IPA. I'll probably round things off with a Sainsburys Celebration ale.....

 

Bought the ingredients to make curry and some Rutland Panther mild - tomorrows dinner will be good!