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Years Back – England part 1

Continuing our European year 10 years back. We spent the winter in southern England and loved it. Saw snow once. Here’s the diary.


About British beer. It’s warm. It’s flat. It’s bitter. It’s good. We’re of course drinking only real ale – draught beer drawn by suction or gravity from casks where the beer is still fermenting. Of course Stella Artois, Budweiser, Becks, lager shandys, and other alcopops are around but who cares?

Three weeks on this side of the channel and we’ve had quite a few beers. Many of the bitters are quite similar – you could really throw a (large) blanket over the whole Ordinary Bitter style.
  • Adnam’s Broadside
  • Archers Lost The Plot – Seasonal Guy Fawkes Day special. Bready. 4.0%.
  • Arkell’s 2B
  • Arkell’s 3B
  • Arkell’s Kingsdown Special Ale
  • Badger Tanglefoot
  • Banks’s Original – Weak mild.
  • Bateman’s Blackbeerd – Sweet porter. Chocolaty. 3.6%.
  • Bateman’s XXXB
  • Caledonian Golden Promise – Golden Promise hops. Earthy, spicy. Still smooth.
  • Cottage Whipper Howling Ale
  • Deuchars IPA
  • Donni

Source: Indiana Beer

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