Friday, August 18, 2006
Portsmouth Beer Festival 2006
Another successful attendance at this year's Portsmouth Beer Festival - that's every one since 1983 and no sign of stopping :-)
Only managed 9 halves - gone are the days of indecipherable beer notes in the programme and avoiding any drink under 4%. Nowadays I seem to be avoiding anything over 4.5% but then I am drinking with my dad.
| 7:06 | Footslogger (4.4%) | Arundel (Arundel, West Sussex) | This was my first half of the night. The programme description said "golden, light and very refreshing beer, using Challenger hops to give a good bitter flavour and hoppy aroma." Definitely refreshing and the sort of pint you'd want after a hard day at work - would look out for it again. | |
| 7:17 | Black Cat (3.4%) | Moorhouses (Burnley, Lancashire) | "Dark, refreshing beer with a distinct chocolate malt flavour and a smooth hoppy finish." Not sure about the supposed chocolate flavour unless by that they somehow meant burnt as that was the overriding taste for me. |  |
| 7:35 | Barm Pot Bitter (3.8%) | Goose Eye (Keighley, West Yorkshire) | For some reason the programme had this one as "Barn Pot" - not that the real title "Barm Pot" is in any way more sensible. "A good session bitter with hop and citrus flavour balanced by a malty base with a somewhat dry finish." Could smell the lemon here so have to agree. |  |
| 7:53 | Special (4.5%) | Young's (Wandsworth, London)
| I don't normally buy beers at festivals from breweries that I can buy from at the local supermarket but I do like the Young's brand and the ram's head label design. Looks very different, modern and stylish - deceptively pagan, even - so "half a Special, please". |  |
| 8:14 | Powder Monkey (4.4%) | Nelson nee Flagship (Chatham, Kent) | Too late to make the programme but not the festival. | |
| 8:36 | Golden Bine (3.8%) | Ballard's (Rogate, West Sussex) | "Golden in colour, with a light floral flavour and aroma." |  |
| 8:53 | Fruit Bat (4.5%) | Banks & Taylor (Shefford, Bedfordshire) | "Exciting, raspberry flavoured, hoppy cask-conditioned fruit beer." Does what it says on the tin - so much lovely fruity goodness that it must be healthy for you. | |
| 9:17 | Explorer (4.3%) | Adnams (Southwold, Suffolk) | "Blond beer suffused with aromas of a grapefruit grove, with New World hops delivering its fruity bitterness." Well, with hops named Chinook and Columbus, definitely not Old World but don't recall any grapefruityness. |  |
| 9:42 | Slater's Top Totty (4.0%) | Eccleshall (Eccleshall, Staffordshire) | From an Inn with its own brewery - sounds like a great place to visit. |
Labels: Beer, Portsmouth
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