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Gunpowder is a green tea, it's called gunpowder because it used to look like gunpowder. I feel like this blog is going to be too short.
I read a short skiffy story by Cordwainer Smith the other day - where in order to get away from the people who were attacking him the captain of a ship genetically imprinted "serve and protect man" into a species of cat. He then sent these cats to a nearby habitable moon - 2 million years in the past. Of course as soon as he'd done that they appeared and defeated his attackers. Mindfuck though!
Badgers - Fursty Ferret
Fursty Ferret is quite a nostalgic beer for me, it's featured all but one beer-advent calendars - and Badgers were one of the first brewers I took a shine to in the early days of beer discovery.
*The following is a little rant
The sad thing about Badgers these days, is their branding. They've redesigned it to be more appealing...but to who? The under 10's? Marketing people say it's for younger people, what with more 18-24 year olds drinking ale - but I don't quite see that. It's not like your typical Lager has anything but a badge and a date on it. Badgers were an easily identifiable brand, everything had a badger perched above it. You'd have to be a complete muppet not to get it.
My next gripe is the bottles. They're clear. Old Badgers had only 2 of their 6 core range in clear bottles, now it's 4 out of 6. Why do I care? Well, beers brewed with actual hops are degraded by exposure to light (beers with hop extracts are usually not). If beer is left in the light too much it will go skunky and taste completely different from how the brewer intended, so if a brewer cares about their beer - they use a dark bottle. Even Budweiser know this.
Anyway.
Looks - Like I want it to be summer.
Smells - Fruity sweet and malty. Nice and light.
Taste - Nice balance of sweetness and bitterness. Very refreshing, could easily sink loads of these.
7/10
I wrote this blog whilst listening to Celebration Day. I was hugely reluctant to actually listen to this, not wanting to hear Led Zeppelin just sounding off. It starts off a little...weak - the guitar is overly doused in effects and I didn't really like it. However after 3 songs things started to pick up, the effects die off a little and Robert Plant really comes into his vocals. Jason Bonham is absolutely kicking the drums all over the shop, it's making me tired just listening. I'm looking forward to putting the Blu-ray on.
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