After a day of picking apples, time to go to a beer Festival. A short drive from Abergavenny is the Star Inn at Talybont on Usk and their first beer Festival is this weekend. The marquee is in the canalside beer garden and features Penlon brewery beer on draught as well as ales from Otley, Newmans and even Harviestoun and Cairngorm from Scotland. Brew Wales is on for the light hoppy ales so a pint of Tudor brewery Blorenge is going down very well. Just so happened that Anthony the brewer was also here today. The first Star Inn beer Festival looks to be a success, the last warm rays of the autumn sun will slowly vanish behind the bank of the Monmouthshire-Brecon canal and the band are about to start playing. Time for another pint I think before going to Cowbridge to press the apples.
Fullers ESB is my favourite beer, though last time I was in the local Fullers pub (okay its in Bristol, 45 minutes away by train) both myself and Fido were on the Porter.
ReplyDeleteThere are some great US brews as well, Dogfishhead, Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn and Rogue to name but a few.
Oh and we also export Felinfoel, pronounced Velinvoal not feeling fowl, to the US but we hope you will forgive us for that one!
I can find the porter now and then and love it so. Yeah Dogfishead and Sierra Nevada are good. Sweetwater Brewing Co. makes a seasonal every now and then called Donkey Punch that does just that, packs a beautiful punch.
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