As the year rolls on, the beer festivals start coming in, along with the harvests of a lot of hope varieties meaning there are a lot more options for fans of overtly hopped ales to come, plus some chances to try them. The future months are going to hold some exciting times including some festivals I myself have been really looking forward to and hopefully another Battle of the Breweries event. In the meantime, I have continued to subject myself to a variety of bottled beers on your behalf, to determine what really is worth giving some time to in each style. I’ll also take this opportunity to update a few people, as I have been asked recently two questions on my rating, not only of beers on this monthly beer edition, but of my restaurant reviews. So, why don’t I rate things on a relative scale? Is a restaurant an eight out of ten establishment, or a beer a four out of five? Put simply, I don’t think this system stands up to any scrutiny whatsoever. It depends on too many variables to rate say, an authentic Thai-style restaurant on the same scale as a fine dining and silver service style establishment or indeed rate a new wave Gose beer on a scale that would also give a score to a scotch ale or a wee-heavy. With regards both, what mood am I in before I go to the restaurant or before I start trying a beer? With the beer, what have I eaten in the run up to trying it? Have I had another beer before it? It all come down to good science and being a professionally trained scientist, not acknowledging the variables I am unable to control would be unfair. So I attempt to rate the beer in a qualitative fashion and be as fair to describing it on its own terms as I can. One man’s (or indeed, woman’s) poison is another’s remedy. The second question I have recently been asked is why this section of my writing only covers bottles rather than cask and keg. The easy answer is that I can drink the beers in bottles at home to my own leisure, but also it is also so that people can read and then relatively simply go and find a bottle of a beer – which is often much easier than tracking down where it is on either cask or keg (by the time I publish, the pub may have sold out). Hopefully this all seems reasonable enough! Onward with the tasting, yet another 8 different beers which I have had the pleasure or otherwise, of getting my chops around this last month. Cheers!!
That’s about it for March anyway, I hope you enjoyed the read… don’t forget to tweet (from the buttons below) or share on Facebook or other social media if you did! Happy drinking everyone! Pedro.
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