DP mentioned he'd found there was a beer festival taking place over towards the Uni at Aston so we agreed to give it a go and soon found ourselves in the Sack of Potatoes. A nice selection of 12 or so beers greeted us some on a temporary stillage and some from the bar. we agreed to take it in turns selecting the beers and this lead to the following:
- Rudgates Spring Elixir
- Meantime IPA
- Springhead Drop o the Blackboard stuff
- York's First Light
- Slater's Chocolate Orange
- Brains Reverend James (the only beer from the bar and merely chosen as it wouldn't be a Friday without James!)
Tiem to leave and so over the road to the Gosta Green. A large venue with an obvious student bias. I went for the Becks Vier (no real ale available). We noticed what we assumed were a student party with tee shirts specially printed for their crawl that evening.
We moved on to the Bull close to the Dentists Hospital and the old fire station. A large collection of jugs adorned the ceiling, etc and a good choice of stews was on the menu. My choice was Hook Norton's Hooky Bitter.
Next was the Jeckyl and Hyde and Purity Mad Goose.
The Crown suggested next till we saw the queue, not helped by the sight that our 12 student friends from earlier would be ahead of us to get served so we moved onto the Square Peg where I opted for a short (Jim Beam) and finally the Shakesphere where alas I forgot to note which beer I sampled (might have been Land Lord from Timothy Taylor?)
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