Cheap beer delivered!

Think thats the quickest I ever clicked on a thread! Cheers – ordered! They have their Best on in my local, tried a few others, looking forward to this selection.

He, he, best pint of Broadside I ever had was in Sounthwold. 🙂

Infact I had to pints on the lunch and being a little tipsy I spend £70 on a shirt. Which i never wear ‘cos I look?

Cheers PM – got mine last week and will make a dent in it today – familiar with most of them but a couple of new ones too.

I make you right PM – 3 of 4 OK for me (as per other thread) – the porter a write off though. I know what you mean about trying too hard. Goes for a lot of this craft beer I think – just because you can doesn’t mean you should!

I think the IPA is my preference of the 4, and all worth a try at that price. The citrus thing seems very common, and I don’t quite get it – not just this deal but a lot of these small craft breweries. Was in Colorado a couple of years ago and craft beer is absolutely huge there – around 300 breweries just round Denver and the outskirts. One I tried there came with a slice of orange in it – not for me! I think the smaller breweries making more traditional beer are more up my street, and luckily plenty of them in Essex and especially Kent.

If you are in Amsterdam you have to visit In de Wildeman Ironically it’s where I first tasted the Bristol wiper and true beers, but they now have their beers served in a lot more places locally.

Top of the list In de Wildeman this week is Fullers London Pride! Mind you they also have a Dutch Schwartz, a Belgian Quadrupel at 9.5% and an Ijsbock I’d like to try (I’m sure Bob knows all about Bocks). May be we’ll get there in October as we have done the last few years.

Back to Vienna in July which isn’t exciting beer wise, but as it’s all Southern German style I’m not complaining but they are nuts for cider. The Spar shop beneath the main train station was like being back home. Cans of Blackthorn everywhere.

Bristol is craft beer mad. Once the weather perks up I intend to get back to the rejuvenated docks area and the Wild Beer bar and brewery. 20 taps plus loads of bottles and cans from all around the world.

Off to London tomorrow for 4 days. I expect I’ll be having a pint or two of London Pride ? Might have to check out the Craft Beer Co pubs too.

Back in my old student days, there were a few London pubs which had both atmosphere and beer.

In Stepney The Prospect of Whiby

In north London The Spaniards Inn

In Fleet Street The Cheshire Cheese

For atmosphere Dirty Dicks

I see that the latter has been Elf & Safetied since I last went there. When I was a student it made its reputation from the ‘fact’ it had not been cleaned or dusted for 200 years. Now just a sample has been hygienically moved to a glass case!

I remember the Prospect from much earlier: 1962/3 as a Junior Deckhand, calling in at West India Dock and sailing for the Ellerman Wilson Line from Hull. Stepney was a favourite watering hole, lovely ‘proper Cockney’ girls. but could hardly understand them at first and they struggled with my Nottinghamshire coalfield accent: “Eyup Miduck, a’ yer alreight?”

One time, I got lost away from my normal route, asked two girls where I was – “Mi’waw, mate!”   –   “Wheer’s that, duck?”   “Mi’waw, ennit! A’ Yer from ap Norff?”

I established that the very attractive young lady was saying “Millwall” and was asking if I was from the North of England. Eventually, over a coffee at her bedsit….

Happy days!???

The cheapest beer I’ve had delivered was 3 weeks ago, when a box marked “Heavy” and “Glass” arrived at work unannounced, addressed to me, and with no note of who sent it.

Turns out a client who has emigrated to the Caribbean was happy enough with my service that he arranged an online delivery from Germany, initiated in the Caribbean of a case of beer (12 bottles real ale) as a thank you. I was very grateful, and it didn’t cost me a bean (well, except the time in detective work to figure out who’d sent it).