Sunday, May 06, 2007
Reading Beer Festival 2007
Sunday is family day so I went along with tee-total Samantha to keep me company. I didn't know if anyone I knew was turning up so it was nice of her to volunteer. In the end I met 3 of my workmates and a dithering couple from gaming ("we've decided not to go Friday night so we'll be going Saturday, or possibly Sunday").
The range of beers available today was heavily diminished by the Saturday drunkards. There were a number of gaps with some barrels up there from one brewery to fill up space - they had beer in but they weren't part of the alphabetical sorting. And the cider/perry stall closed around 5pm, I think. The lack of beers published in the programme meant that it was really hard to create a theme to the drinking so I just randomly chose, as you can see:
| 2:40 | Hogs Back TEA (Traditional English Ale) | 4.2% |
| 3:00 | Zerodegrees Black Lager | 4.8% |
| 3:20 | Loddon Forbury Lion | |
| 3:55 | Ramsbury Wildly Mildly | 3.6% |
| 4:10 | Oxfordshire Ales Triple B | 3.7% |
| 4:25 | Keystone Cornerstone | |
| 4:55 | Loddon Downland Bitter | |
| 5:20 | Battledown Tipster | 4.2% |
| Something suspicious going on here. Either I dragged out a half-pint for an hour or - much more likely - I didn't get round to writing in the programme whatever I bought at 6pm. | ||
| 6:25 | Buntingford Pargeter | 3.7% |
| 6:50 | Geltsdale Tarnmonath | 3.8% |
One innovation was the choice of glass sizes - "Full pint", "half pint" and "third of a pint". Marvellous idea - with the small glass you can get round loads of beers without having to suffer the ones you don't like too long. Of course, the small size does tend to make a mess of your neatly arranged souvenir glasses.
As I said, it was family day so the larger kids got to get involved in the face painting too:
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