The Ramblings of an Accountant

...and we all know what that means!

It's the Great British Beer Festival! YAY!!!

Myself and cuvalwen will be there tonight, propping up one of the bars, at least. If anyone else will be there tonight, give a 'yo' in the comments and I'll look out for you!

Great British Beer Festival Tasting Notes....

Previous Years are here: 2000/2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009.

Not doing too bad again, this year. The festival hasn't even finished yet and here is my list for 2008. Many thanks to the co-conspirators this year: darthfi on the Tuesday and gmh, Bob, rjw1, aca, nou, gaspodog, David and sundry others on the Thursday. Much fun was had and much beer was drunk. Speaking of which…

( The Beers )

Previous Years are here: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

Well, not only have I (just) got up 2006, as promised I found the prior years. So here, for posperity*, are my 2000 and 2001 festival records.

( Great British Beer Festival – 2000 )

( Great British Beer Festival – 2001 )

ETA: *posperity is obviously the bastard love child of posterity and prosperity. Obviously.

Other Years are here: 2000/2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

Well, beer festival was fun. Drank far too much beer. Met up with cowfishbilly and other old college mates. I, of course, had agreed to meet with cuvalwen at 2pm anyway. Steve turned up (lj journal to follow, he assures!!!) and then Ralphie from work turned up. It was very strange at times, three worlds colliding! Cuvalwen and Steve came back to mine afterwards for pizza and "The Wicker Man". A good night had by all, I reckon.

Anyway. ( tasting notes )

I was having regrets at not getting through more of the beers. Now I have looked through these, and added in the one I never found out what it was, the second half of banana bread I had, the one Steve bought me and the finishing of Adams pint of banana bread that he didn't like (did I mention that I liked that beer????) I think I would have had to be carried back if I had drunk any more!

Oh, and I better mention the:
Scottish Courage, Imperial Stout 10.0%. No tasting notes for this, it just mentions the fact it is rare in cask. There is a reason for this! It is absolutely gorgeous - a think black liquid which is almost chewable. It has the taste of burnt chocolate and whiskey. You can't drink much though. I restricted myself to three mouthfuls from someone else's half. And I'm dead proud of myself there!