I attended this beano yesterday. Held at Manchester Central (formerly G-Mex) it was a veritable cornucopia of all things you could possibly need, should you run either a pub or an eating place. Naturally there was a drink in it, so we supped minute quantities of beers from Copper Dragon (excellent) Freedom (nice pilsner, yuk dark and organic lagers), Holts (splendid bitter and surprising good smooth mild), Maisels and Erdinger (Pikantus) wheat beers and of course Lees. The new Coronation St beer was on offer and it was good, but malty in the Lees way. I chatted to Simon Lees-Jones, who buys and sells pubs for Lees. He is buying currently and was very buoyant about the future. We did for politeness sake try a little drop of vino reddo too, but turned down countless offers of tasters of lurid alcopops, albeit from rather fetching young women.
Later, using a couple of free pint vouchers supplied by Lees, we supped the Coronation Street beer in the Rain Bar where the beer seemed a bit hoppier. It is available in bottle too. Worth a try I'd say.
We actually made some good contacts for NWAF, but mainly it was a piss up.
6 comments:
I need my liver. This is why I can never move to your part of the world.
P.S.: Why was that lovely-looking bitter(?) on the right being served under nitrogen?
Need your liver? Of course you do for all those drunken afternoons in bier gartens drinking far stronger beers than me. Not to mention all the bocks you scoff at home.
The lovely beer was of course that illustrated on the pump clip and was not nitro served.
this blog is so northerncentric
'this blog is so northerncentric'
Honestly, where do these people crawl from?
I shall curse you when I fall from my bike after this afternoon's session at the Bierkeller(s). Should be at least 20° and sunny today!
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