Here's a Northern Monk Faith American Pale, in case you've forgotten what beer in a boozer looks like....
Lost my beer-buddy brother tonight: he flies back to Canada tonight before setting off to cycle the Great Divide. But we caught 6 new beers over the last couple of days so it wasn't at all in vain. I'll be back to mostly drinking on my tod for the rest off my year's challenge.
Anyhow, yesterday netted a Northern Monk Faith, a rather gorgeous American Pale.
An Orme Brewery Celtica, a good, solid, old-fashioned-but-done-very-well sort of bitter, clear, light and bright.
Followed by a Howling Hops Pale which moved the taste buds back a bit to the first of the night while staying as cask as the Orme. A good night's drinking.
This evening, a couple of One Mile End beers. I'd drunk a couple of their beers earlier in the month and they were both fine ales. Their Salvation Pale was just as good. Not a heavy ABV beer, more a session style beer. Loadsa grapefruit, a bit of orange. Their Juicy 4pm Pale was very much of the same palate but with everything turned up a couple of notches, stronger and fruitier. I finished off with a Fourpure Lychee and Vanilla Sour. Strongish undertones of vanilla, not a lot of lychee. Or perhaps the lychee didn't blend in properly with the sourness for me, as though it was lychee and vanilla
and sour.....