Wed
08-Aug-2007

great british beer festival 2007

Another Great British Beer Festival in Earl's Court this year. Matt and I met up with Andy, and Luke from Australia, and we sampled a range of ales before gorging on pie. I tried to drink in thirds this year, to avoid getting pissed too quickly. This was a reasonably successful strategy too. I enjoyed Allendale's Wolf, "beer with a bite" as the description cheerfully advises, Coach House's Posthorn Premium Ale was refreshing and dry, even dryer and quite weird was St Peter's Grapefruit Beer, which smelt exactly like grapefruit, though the flavour was more balanced. I had Leatherbritches Raspberry Belter too, which I also enjoyed in 2006, a great crisp fruity summer beer.

Matt won a blue CAMRA t-shirt in the tombola this year. The smallest size they had was large though! We'll have to use it as a morning after dressing gown style shirt...