CAMRA and Beer Deliveries to Your Door plus More!

The Jolly Fisherman, Hastings

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) provides details of its contemporary campaign Pulling Together (website) concerning the current Coronavirus lockdown, something I have mirrored where I live down here in Hastings (Steve on Hastings blogspot). Commendable though Pulling Together is, as you might expect I did find some errors and missing services, eg a pub that isn't delivering beers included (The Tower, and the publican has assured me she is not delivering beers, and no off sales) and missing pubs that are delivering locally. Consequently, please do use the links I include below, but you may find some are not delivering, and that you may be missing others that do, so more research may well be required where you live. 

CAMRA link to brewery initiatives; click on where you live on the map.

CAMRA link to pub and bar services; add the postcode or town where you live. 

CAMRA link to cider and perry services; click on where you live on the map.  

Plus, CAMRA has also created a virtual pub where you can go on line and chat, join in pub quizzes and other events, and drink too... with ales supplied from the services detailed above, of course! I haven't visited, but this link will take you to The Red (ON) Lion.

Please look after yourselves folks, cheers!

Cut Beer Duty Petition - Coronavirus Related

Memories!

So what's this petition about then? Well, the idea is to cut beer duty for when pubs reopen to help them, and brewers, survive the shutdown of pubs...

Publican friends of mine ask you to go to the PETITION and support please, cheers!

And I don't disagree 😉

Pubs Still Closed: What to do?!?

So what can we do? Obvious really, not as good as drinking cask conditioned ales, but there is some interesting stuff in bottles and cans, so yesterday I tried...

St Austell (website) Proper Job, usually a 4.5% ale from the cask, but a 'beefed up' 5.5% in the 'bottle conditioned' version, as close as you're going to get to cask conditioned, in the circumstances. Yes, this is a pale hoppy beer; they call it 'Cornish IPA' and it does what it says on the label! Refreshing aroma and taste, with big citrus flavours, and a hint of tropical fruits, not surprising when you consider that the hops used in the brewing process are Willamette, Cascade and Chinook, a lovely mix. Actually, my recent tastings of this from cask have been disappointing (6-8 weeks ago), and friends have said similar, but this was very decent indeed.

And Meantime Brewing (website) London Porter, a 5.5% 'porter' brewed for Marks & Spencer. This was a reddish brown colour, chocolate in the aroma and a hint of chocolate in the taste, and roasted barley there too. This was quite thin, refreshing though, but a disappointment there was little body considering the strength. I would suggest this is more like a 'thin' stout rather than a porter (for opinion see older blog), Okay, but a wee bit disappointing... 

I shall be drinking some more of the bottled Proper Job very soon, cheers!

Funny, but sad...