It's Saturday and as the famed Winston Churchill once said, it's hammer time!
I haven't posted for a couple of days. Did you miss me?
No matter. It's Saturday and we simply can't have a Saturday without beers!
Today it's absolutely boiling. The sun is at full beam above our beautiful flat earth. A nice pale summer beer would have made perfect sense, yes? Or some kind of citrus, fizzy IPA bursting with juicy stuffs.
Or, I could be completely maverick and go bad cat Porter.
Oh yes, give me the dark stormy beers that taste like granite on a sunny day. Makes perfect sense.
I did make a concession to the sun. One of them is a milk ice Porter and t'other a vanilla something.
Almost sounds like ice cream.
Let's shake our bacon!!
A collaboration between Magic Rock Brewing and a local ice cream maker, Dixons. Vanilla and oats and a velvety mouth feel are promised.
Mmm, I've always liked a bit of velvet!
Look at that. Tan and brownish black like a spiders leg. Looks rather inviting. I think I will slip in.
Mmm mmm. A fine thing indeed. Apologies in advance if the videos are not up to my usual standard of sweary buffoonery.
There is a creamy tang and a very sweet vanilla finish to this. I like it. Although it could do with an extra oomph of something, 7/10 booms!
Next up!!
This cheeky chap is apparently named after a couple of mischievous cats that lived in the brewery.
I hope that it doesn't taste like a mischievous cat. I don't imagine that would be very pleasant.
It's black like Street Hawk's visor on a dark night. It looks like a furious black panther's toenails after crawling through a tar pit!
Which is to say, that it is indeed dark and tempting. I get a nice waft of sugary toffee from it and that's before it gets anywhere near my mouth!
Rambunctious!! That's what it is! It's a fudgy dirty creamy coffee bastard of a porter and that my friends is a very good thing. Mmm, sweet malt above!! 8/10 booms!
Well, this has been a pleasant Saturday in the murky grime that has been my week. I am a happy man. I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Cheers!
