: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:35 pm  

Just managed to catch Saltaire Apricot Ale last Friday in the Gatehouse (they ran out very quickly) stunning stuff. Had a few days in Dorset last week and had some different ends of the scale stuff. Dartmoor brewerys Jail Ale, excellently kept in a boozer in Weymouth and simply the worst pint ever in 40 yrs of sampling. (36 legit) Dorset Piddle ale - a more aptley named pint cannot have been created - Lugger Inn at Weymouth. It was that bad it made some of the Wards best bitter that iv'e tasted seem like the Supreme Ale of Britain.

[Wanderer]

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:30 pm  

Dates for the diary;

JD Wetherspoon - The Worlds Biggest International Real Ale Festival
Wednesday 15 April - Monday 4 May 2009
(features 50 guest ales).

Doncaster Beer Festival 2009 - The Hub (Doncaster College)
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 April 2009
(90 real ales plus a selection of foreign bottled beers, cider, perry and fruit wines).

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:37 pm  

WANDERER wrote:

Dates for the diary;

JD Wetherspoon - The Worlds Biggest International Real Ale Festival
Wednesday 15 April - Monday 4 May 2009
(features 50 guest ales).

Doncaster Beer Festival 2009 - The Hub (Doncaster College)
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 April 2009
(90 real ales plus a selection of foreign bottled beers, cider, perry and fruit wines).

How about a Dons supporters Real Ale evening/afternoon in a venue to coincide with the Weatherspoons event?. Put some faces on names, blah blah.

[Wanderer]

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:42 pm  

Wilf Grimshaw wrote:

How about a Dons supporters Real Ale evening/afternoon in a venue to coincide with the Weatherspoons event?. Put some faces on names, blah blah.

Sounds like a good call to me. Would it be too harsh to suggest a Sunday afternoon when we might otherwise be watching the Dons.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:35 pm  

WANDERER wrote:

Sounds like a good call to me. Would it be too harsh to suggest a Sunday afternoon when we might otherwise be watching the Dons.

The way its going there will be more of us in Weatherspoons anyway .

: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:08 am  

For fans of stouts, the Devonshire Cat in Sheffield has an absolute cracker - Standish's Big John. The Thorne Brewery will be having a stand at the Doncaster Beer Festival. The brewery is on course to have its beers out in early MAY. In the meantime check out the progress being made at www.thornebrewery.com

For fans of stouts, the Devonshire Cat in Sheffield has an absolute cracker - Standish's Big John. The Thorne Brewery will be having a stand at the Doncaster Beer Festival. The brewery is on course to have its beers out in early MAY. In the meantime check out the progress being made at www.thornebrewery.com

[Wanderer]

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:55 pm  

Recently sampled;

Manns St George and the Dragon
Seasonal full flavoured moreish brown bitter 4.5%.

Skinners Hunny Bunny
A reasonably strong golden ale with a hint of honey 4.5%.

Stonehenge Sign of Spring
An unusual light green coloured seasonal beer 4.6%.

[Wanderer]

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:25 pm  

Managed a quick pint this evening;

Everards Sly Fox
A refreshing golden seasonal (spring) ale with a hint of ginger 4.0%.

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:49 am  

WANDERER wrote:

Managed a quick pint this evening;

Everards Sly Fox
A refreshing golden seasonal (spring) ale with a hint of ginger 4.0%.

Did you go out on the sly?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

As for me, with this chest infection, I had a bottle of Ulverston Lonesome Pine and couldn't taste it, so I'm sulking

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:47 pm  

Back in the saddle again.

Two eminently drinkable pints today at the Old Market Hall, Mexborough.
The excellent Jennings' Golden Host ( a play on the famous Wordsworth poem) and Alan Hansen's, the Canadian brewer as opposed to the former Liverpool/Scotland player, Yukon Lead Dog ale. The Lead Dog being marginally the favourite imho. Followed by another two ticks for a bottle of the 80 shillings style ale which is Atlas's Three Sisters from Kinlochleven.

Indeed a welcome return of the sense of taste!