I just came across the booklet from last summer's Postlip beer festival.
From reading my drunken scribbles, it appears that I bought six different beers and sampled another fourteen.
Judging from a mixture of memory and hastily-scribbled notes, some of the highlights included:
- Dark Star's Expresso Stout - I would just love to serve this up in expresso cups at the end of a meal. It's exactly what you'd imagine as the love-child of coffee and beer.
- Nailsworth's Artist's Ale - happy & hoppy, with a slight bitter aftertaste.
- Potbelly's Beijing Black - dark and treacly, almost no bitterness.
- Uley's Pig's Ear - tastes of Christmas! Consequently not quite perfect for drinking on a summer's evening.... but that's a poor thing to hold against it.
- Thornbridge's Jaipur - light and infinitely drinkable, to my peril.
- Stroud's Organic Ale - every glass comes with the added advantage of feeling virtuous.
The one I really didn't like, on the other hand, was Uley's Hogshead PA - I had a taste from someone else's glass and actually made a note to myself to never buy it. The one word 'AWFUL!' is scrawled across the entry!
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Can you trust notes that you made while under the influence? I thought I loved tequila, but found out that I was delusional.
But the beers do sound interesting!
Dedene - obviously the 'influence' was greater as the night went on, but apparently I was still sober enough to take notes. I'll have to see whether I agree with myself this year!
It always troubles me when I can't remember the night before -- but when the night before was a beerfest, I suppost it's to be expected!
This sounds like my hubby, sober or not you just cannot read his tasting notes :) I remember labels and that is that! I made some new interesting Ethiopian dishes tonight and they came out pretty good, so I was thinking I wish you could have come over! We had live music!
Sometimes my illegible scribblings suggest things I never would have thought.
You wrote 15/16 on my comment box, so I assume you mean 5/16? email me so we can talk...elizabeth@cookappeal.com
Silly me, I just saw August, of course, but still we can talk before then via email...cheers! I laughed at roadkill, Texas where I am from, that is a joke...
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