Monday, 12 December 2011

The Beer Advent Calendar 2011 - December 12th

Phew.  Awesome birthday weekend over it was business as usual today...actually business as usual is a Men at Work album I'm going to put on right now...

...right, so now this beer review has a soundtrack.  After a second pub visit where my good friends insisted on pints of Duvel Single, and a short of Knob Creek (ew!) - I'm not sure (again) if my taste buds are up to it.

I'd like to share that I'm going to see Tommy Emmanuel tomorrow and I'm a tad excited.  The man is a fucking wizard.

Todays beer is another new one, from a completely new (for me) brewery.

Bath Ales Barnstormer.  I've seen some Bath Ales in pubs/bars before but they are usually criminally expensive.

Todays beer suits the quite apocalyptic weather quite nicely, there's nothing nicer than a nice rich dark ale for the end of the world (if that's what it is). 
It poured with a little head that quickly disappeared - and it has a sweet malt smell.  It tastes of roasted malts, caramel - usual dark ale stuff.  I get the impression that there is more too it but I'm missing out.  And for that reason it's not getting the 8 I think it deserves...

...still nice though.

7/10




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