This weekend is Easter, and with that comes the Brodies Bunny Basher festival at the William IV. As I'm working on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, today was the only chance I had to travel across London and try a few of the beers that had caught my eye from the list.
I started by ordering a pint of Brodies' London Lager, though miscommunication led to this being a half. Seeing as how I'd be drinking quite a few of these I thought I'd stick with it and just pick a half to write about, just like I did with the Odell IPA at Camden Town Brewery two weeks ago.
I had come across to try the Rioja cask Romanov, and to have another glass of Elizabethan. Everything else was a combination of curiosity, or in the case of the Superior London Porter, an old favourite.
I worked my way through the beers that I couldn't remember having before. Sometimes I can see a use in ticking, or rather, having a record of which beers to avoid or try again. Most of the time though I remember that I actually have a life, and a reasonably good memory, and also, I'm very unorganised when it comes to having a pen and notepad in the same place at the same time.
Post Lager, I had Brodies Brick, Winter Saison and Summer Saison, and an Amarilla, before deciding that none of the other beers that appeared to be on really appealled to me, and settled for a pint of Superior London Porter.
I say appeared, as there were a few pumps without pump clips, and two of these contained the two main beers that I had come across for, the Rioja Romanov and the Elizabethan. Both beers were sublime, though were probably not appreciated as much as they would have been had I known they were on earlier. The latter is a beer that feels like a perfect beer for a cold winters night. If only Brodies would bottle some of it so we could do such a thing.
I'm now off to sleep, it's been a fun week, but now my body needs a break.
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