First time for me at Birmingham beer festival, itself in a new two floor venue in the shape of the Second City Suite. We acquired a table just too close to the food stall but convenient for the locale and Vegan bars (alas most interest was upstairs where I also bumped into a lonesome , at first, Mick the Tick.)
200 beers to consider so start simply (downstairs and study the form.) Had previously decided to concentrate of porters and speciality beers so Two Towers Jewellery Porter was first up (or should that be down.)
Downton Pumpkin Ale next (yes that's got pumpkin in it!).
Hopshackle Aniseed Porter took my eye as a good compremise (yes, that's aniseed!)
Failed on the tombolla.
Nook Brewhouse Cherry Stout followed at which point we noticed that the tasting notes got fewer and fewer in the programme at this point ("must have been drunk by now!?" sugested GP.)
Dunham Massey Treacle Treat
BFG from Black Country (merely as an experiment)
Pitfield's Red ale was my one selection form the Vegan bar.
Quartz Ale-Del-Weiss (for something different)
Back to porter land via Dorset Piddle's Tunderbox Porter and then Conwy's Telford Porter.
We finished by pooling out left over tokens on Oakham's 8.8% Black Barron.
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