10th September - Dave P's Whatever, Whenever Tour

Out with the Friday Night Birmingham Beer Intakers (aka GP and co albeit no GP this time). Severla others were absent (with leave) so we had decided to take things easy.

D, bro' of the aforementioned erstwhile G, had been in planning mode earlier in the week and so I joined him, TH and BJ at the Black Eagle in Hockley for his Whatever, Whenever tour. The pub, an oasis in the industial wilderness these day, was packed and so we sat outside for a while until the rain came down. Excellent beer as always in the Black Eagle with the following sampled:

• Brewdog Trashy Blonde
  
• York Guzzler
• Bathams Bitter
• Three Tuns XXX (James Bond reference at this point lead us onto the Drawf hanging falicy in Wizard Of Oz and the bit in Star wars where the trooper banged his head on the door.)

We moved back into town to the Old Joint Stock for Fullers Red Fox prior to finishing at the recently opened Colmore Bar and Grill where Wychwood Hobgoblin was the only real ale available. We played a coin based game where last placed has to acquire and down a single and totally failing to be last placed I still took the penalty having noticed they had Highland Park whisky on offer (shame the raspberry vodka was sold out.)