Thu
11-May-2006

beer on broadway

Michal, Kornelia, Ema, Ema's mum, Juicy, Matt and I all headed down to sample the glory of real ale at Beer on Broadway, the CAMRA festival held in Ealing. The venue was the rather magnificent Ealing Town Hall, a high-ceilinged gothic Victorian building. The beer was fabulous. They had Hogs Back Brewery's A Over T on draught, which Ema also took a liking to. I picked up a box of Bananatana, which you can only buy in the Netherlands generally, to take home as well.

It being Ealing, they had a Polish chef cooking good old Polish food as well the usual English stuff. So I had a massive plate of bigos with my ale, which went down splendidly.

Ended up quite pissed. Michal had his picture taken with one of the CAMRA volunteers on the way out. A comedy pairing I think. Traditional and non-traditional.

We then dropped in on Juicy's house on the way home, where he fed us nutty hazelnut naughty liqueur and explained how we might go about making GHB, before we staggered on home.