I know I know- BIRMINGHAM beer festival, BIRMINGHAM folk festival...I've been spending an unhealthy amount of time in our second city recently. Obviously any event that takes place in Coventry is automatically far superior, but we should still support the Brummies in their efforts to be as cool as us, even if they fail miserably...
The Birmingham Beer Festival, held in Aston uni students' union showcased over 80 real ales and ciders, as well as a book sale and a tombola. Wahey! We're in 1974! No strippers though...
Here are a few of the pint-sized highlights:
Dark Star Espresso- good for keeping you awake. Aftertaste of burnt log.
Brewdog Tokyo Imperial Stout- packs some punch at 12%. Apparently is used as part of Japanese ritual suicide.
Church End Mango- John Smiths that had been mixed with mango juice in a drunken frenzy. Not a pretty result.
Windie Goat- not as goatey as I'd hoped for.
Hornbeam Horns & Halos- very horny indeed, but the taste comes and goes like John Leslie
Grindleton Hairy Fairy- everyone was too self-conscious to ask for this one
Roger's Old Trouser Snake- ...and this one
It would have been nice to have had more beers with topical names. Large Hardon Collider Ale? Gordon's Credit Crunch Stout? Bishop's ASBO? I took the plunge and joined CAMRA but unfortunately they only had large t-shirts left. "You'll grow into it" chuckled the brummie ale-buff who gave it to me. Maybe CAMRA membership will eventually lead to mild obesity. At least the t-shirt would fit...
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Ha! I read Large Hardon Collider Ale as Large Hadron Collider, which is ironic because I always read Large Hadron Collider as Large Hardon Collider.
And mild obesity isn't that bad. It's when they pull out words like morbidly that you have to get worried.
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