... Heaven - well no - There is mention of Stairway to Heaven below but anyway it was a bit of a strange evening so this is the best link I could come up with.
Ok, so as you'll have gathered from a previous post, I don't only enjoy drinking the stuff, I like making it as well. To this end I've been with the Burton Beer Circle since its conception 3 or so years ago now and every eight weeks or so we meet at the Coopers Tavern in Burton and discuss / sample our latest brews.
Tonight started off with the traditional pre-meeting eat / drink in the Devonshire with GP and JF and as tends to be the case it was Burton Bridge Porter for me (other beers available from Burton Bridge being Golden Delicious, Burton Bridge Bitter and Stairway to Heaven). They also had a guest which I briefly samply in the shape of Barleymole from Moles Brewery. One of these days I'll try a different beer here.
Over the Coopers and we have a problem. Our meeting room has been taken over for a book launch of all things. We were there just in time to hear Pete Brown tell us about his new book "Hops and Glory" which descibes "one man's search for the beer that built the British Empire."
Amongst the gathered crowd we noted Steve Wellington from the Museum brewery (see Day in a Brewery posting earlier). As part of the research Pete has been brewing a special Calcutta IPA type beer at the Museum brewery and which would be available from the bar later.
We "slummed" it in the lounge instead of the back room we usually use and sampled various beers. I supplied a bottle of White Shield and perhaps surprisingly the group weren't overly impressed (mind you they do make some exceedingly good beer this lot.)
In between times there was the regular Castle Rock Harvest Pale, Bass, Amber Ales Scary Dark Mild, Bewdley Brewery's Senior School Bitter, Titanic Lookout and Tower's Forti-Fived to sample in addition to the Hop and Glory as above.
Anyway the theme for the night's beers was Jaipur IPA (so I suppose my offering sort of fits in) and there were four samples to try, all from the same recipe but produced by different members and what a difference between them! Still we agreed in a blind tasting on the winner. So what is so strange? Well half way through we get introduced to Lynsey, the brewer from Thornbridge who produces Jaipur (and who was also impressed by the winner). Thanks to GP for this pointer to the brewery's web site and this one for their blog including a photo from the book launch (see their entry called "H Also I found the author Pete Brown's blog here.
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