Well the Psycho start is for
Oldmort the Old Budgie, it must get boring with only a mirror
to peck and a spray of Millet to talk to, and your drugs shut in a tin !
Snowmaggedon this morning, well 2” but
undaunted we waxed the sled runners, harnessed the dogs and struggled into our
fur Parkers ! OK Brenda put her boot grips on and we plodded out for the bus to
Skipton – it’s Wednesday Narrow Boat day. I left Brenda ice climbing in the high
street and went to see what the guest beers were today. First pint was a Leeds
brewery New Moon 4.3% Black IPA it was OK lots of body and a good hop taste but Black IPA ??? the
pipe was a Butz Choquin maître pipier de-lux fait main (hand made) St Claude
France with a brass Army mount stem, smoking Germain’s Special Latakia Flake
from the Channel Islands.
I had a visitor while outside
Brenda landed and we went inside to warm up Brenda a Cappuccino and I tried a
Batemans brewery Hooker – golden bitter 4.5% with the slogan “have you got the
balls for it”
OK taste notes for Mark (I did answer your comment in Bribery
blog) there’s a hint of citrus in the top note with tastes of xmas pudding and
fruit mid notes with nuts coming through in the base ! Nuts indeed or should
that be Bollocks ? to the Bear it’s all subjective and just tastes like Beer
this one not startling but not bad, the New Moon was better because it had more
Hops and the Bear likes Hops !
Brenda had warmed up from the ice climbing and had a 1/2 of
Timmerman's brewery Lambic (wild yeast ferment) Strawberry Ale 4%.- I had an
Ilkley brewery Timothy Hughes Pale Ale 3.5%, hoppy almost an IPA and more to the
Bears liking than the Batemans,
these two were so spot on we both had another, Brenda had said
"this is like pleasant pop" after the first taste of the Strawberry but followed
that with I can feel the effects of this ! after the second 1/2, but at 4% the
Bear said he’d be more inclined to complain if he couldn’t !
back to the bus station with the snow turning to rain for the trip
home
just thought I'd share, cheers Danny
