. Favourite Beer of the Week
This morning we went to see the friends and family screening of DreamWorks super new animated 3D glasses movie "How To Train Your Dragon" with our friends Ellen and Andrius.
The movie is all about Vikings (with curiously Scottish accents) so to stay in the Scandinavian spirit of things I am drinking a beer by Mikkeller - a small Danish brewery from Daneland.
I found it in the great big Berkeley Bowl beer aisle.
The woman stacking the shelves was raving about it to a friend, so I waited for her to bugger off and then grabbed one (beer, not friend).
It is called "Big Worst" and it is another Barleywine style ale, 17.6% abv. I am enjoying it with a sensible snack of carrot-miso-tahini dip (plus celery sticks and multigrain crackers).
Vikings were big in my home town in the 9th century.
They made York the grooviest place outside London for several decades. It's clearly where I inherited my red hair and large brutish physique.
In the early 1980's someone in York knocked down a chocolate factory and found 40,000 Viking remains under it. And there they built the Jorvic Centre - a museum of Vikings, complete with the authentic smells of toilets, dead fish, and pig shit.
The last Viking to rule York was a man called Eric Bloodaxe. He was driven out in 954 AD by this man:
which must have been quite embarrassing.
The movie is all about Vikings (with curiously Scottish accents) so to stay in the Scandinavian spirit of things I am drinking a beer by Mikkeller - a small Danish brewery from Daneland.
I found it in the great big Berkeley Bowl beer aisle.
The woman stacking the shelves was raving about it to a friend, so I waited for her to bugger off and then grabbed one (beer, not friend).
It is called "Big Worst" and it is another Barleywine style ale, 17.6% abv. I am enjoying it with a sensible snack of carrot-miso-tahini dip (plus celery sticks and multigrain crackers).
Vikings were big in my home town in the 9th century.
They made York the grooviest place outside London for several decades. It's clearly where I inherited my red hair and large brutish physique.
In the early 1980's someone in York knocked down a chocolate factory and found 40,000 Viking remains under it. And there they built the Jorvic Centre - a museum of Vikings, complete with the authentic smells of toilets, dead fish, and pig shit.
The last Viking to rule York was a man called Eric Bloodaxe. He was driven out in 954 AD by this man:
which must have been quite embarrassing.
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posted by anthony at
10:51 PM
4 Comments:
Fascinating history of Englandshire. It can't be faulted in any way. Keep up the good work. A+
I learned everything I know from watching Blue Peter.
I love reading the favourite beer of the week column. Even if it does come out every two weeks and even if it includes other random text and even if you spell favourite with the Queen's english.
I am drinking "fade to black" (from left-hand brewery). Excellent beer with a coffee finish. Cannot taste the chocolate middle that the beer expert said it had.
What do you call a beer expert anyways... they have a name for wine experts...
Keep drinking.
Brent
I shall try some Fade to Black soon.
Did you notice that this Danish brewery is named after your wife?
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