13th Oct - BBC

At the Coopers for the latest BBC meeting.

Commercial beer sample tonight included:

Thornbridge Lumford
Titanic Mild (not a bad beer and they'd sold out of everything else!)

30th Sept - stafford

Lunchtime in Stafford town centre at the Picture House - Caledonian Mellow Yellow

29th Sept - Tamworth

Bolebridge in Tamworth - Exmoor Gold

24th Sept - Loughborough

Off with RG for a trip the Great Central Railway hosted beer festival featuring breweries that are close to where they used to run. Headed into the rushes just off the town cntre first however to The Swan in the Rushes for a couple fo Castle Rock beers (Sherriffs Tipple and Black Gold.)

Over to a Lloyds bar , The Amber Room for Thornbridge Jaipur.

Time for the festival qwhich we foud under canvas on the GCR platform. Milds and Porters typically selected resulting in:

• Boggart Hole Dark Mild (RG who likes mild didn't approve)
  
• Acorn Brewery Old Moor Porter
• Dow Bridge Bonum Mild
• Redemption Urban Dusk
• Vale Black Swan Mild (which we thought was excellent)
  

Between beers took time to review the various engines they have stored by the station.

After the festival took the train to Beeston and the Victoria for Darkstar Hop Head and Thwaites Nutty Black.

23rd Sept - Manchester

Its rains in Manchester!

Up north on business and after the meeting had decided to try the Jolly Anglers but alas it was shut. I therefore went to Monrone's and had a pint of Boddington's Bitter.

Every surface was adorned with pictures and like of the said film star.