An interesting little tweet today inspired me to get off my lazy arse and write a blog. I've been busy/uninspired/whatever for a while, but here we are - inspiration. It's what we all need. In addition to lovely clear, cool, cask conditioned beer of course.
Joseph Holt, a well known Manchester Brewer, has come up with a beer glass which turns itself into the famous Manchester Bee. Well it doesn't exactly metamorphose itself, but a nice sleeve glass has had the addition of some black stripes and if you add a pale, yellow beer, Hey Presto, you have a bee like appearance. Magic. Now I see one or two problems here. The famous Holt's Bitter is a sort of deep brown colour and the delicious Mild is, slightly, well black. Hmm. These won't achieve the desired effect will they? Awards winning Holt's lager it is then. I wonder if the glass is nucleated?Holt's has also come up with the whizzy idea of buy five pints, get a card stamped and you'll get your glass free. Fine. A top tip from me. You can simply buy five pints of mild, eschew the lack of bee effect pro tem and thus gain your glass at minimum outlay. The bee effect can then be achieved in the comfort of your own home with whatever cheap (or dear) yellow pong that floats your boat.
There is of course another way of gaining this coveted glass. If you aren't sure about what it is, contact Cooking Lager. He'll tell you.
The Manchester Bee of course was the logo of Boddingtons Brewery. Remember them? Their golden nectar would have done the job nicely.
Full details of the scheme are here in I LoveManchester.Com
Cute. You might want to look at the Common Carder bee which has sort of mild & black stripes.....
ReplyDeleteTell 'em they need to do a yellow-striped one for the mild drinkers.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this I did think they hadn't thought it through properly. And I prefer to see my beer unencumbered by artwork on the glass.
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