Got a few of the lads together at the Dandy’s to help us get through some of our vast reserves of homebrew beer. It was also a good chance to get people’s opinion on the Otter’s Pocket and to unveil the Padded Jacket IPA and the Headcracker Barleywine.
Despite making disappointing inroads into our supplies, we had a good night which degenerated into a lesson in pipe-smoking from the Geek. The beer was a bit hit and miss. The IPA was superb and everyones favourite. It was just how an IPA should be (although some of the others needed convincing of that since their definition of IPA was based on Greene King’s misnamed beverage). For some reason one of the bottles of Otter’s pocket was pretty minging and you just couldn’t get that out of your head, even when you were actually tasting from the good lot. And I think it was just a little too early to be drinking the Barleywine. I had only bottled it four days before and it needed longer to condition properly.
We left the unfinished keg and bottles and the Dandy’s. Thats the last we’ll see of them, no doubt.
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