Rebellion Red
Today I am going to talk about another one from my Waitrose collection! Rebellion Red (4.5% abv) is a dark red coloured bitter which tasted quite similar to Fuller's ESB (which I have been drinking all afternoon). It tastes like ESB, but it has this acrid burnt taste in it, which I think comes from being a little heavy handed with 120L crystal. This beer was also really underwhelming hop wise, and I could not taste the cascade in it for the life of me.The verdict? Well Clarkson really shat me tonight...
On other news, my mate Jay is coming to visit. he is a soft cock and doesn't drink beer, so I am going to force him into the way of the ale. After seeing some of the insides of London's best pubs, I am sure I will have him converted. We are meeting my mate Chris (yeah the guy with the big head) near Farringdon for lunch on Friday. Even though I work in the area, does anybody have any suggestions on where I should take Jay? I have already ruled out the Sir John Oldcastle as its a JDW, The Mitre and a couple of others where my colleagues drink. I really don't fancy seeing them, on my day off!
posted by Tim at
Thursday, November 20, 2008
4 Comments:
I suspect you know the area's pubs as well as anyone!
It was more tounge in cheek. I ended up at The Jeruselum. Jay who is not a ber drinker had a pint of mild, and three pints of fruit. We then ducked into the Castle (I know), and had a quick pint of Sierra Nevada which tipped him over the edge and he was sick for a solid 12 hours and could not even stomach water.
Tried a cherry beer recently. Not an experience I intend to repeat.
Sorry to comment on such an old post. Red is a really underwhelming beer, but Rebellion's cask ale (and also their Blone and White bottles) are very, very good. The cask IPA, seasonals and Mild (sadly the Mild is only available at their tap in Marlow, Bucks) are all very very good.
I think the Red was an attempt to get some of their beer into Tesco, but it's just too.... neutered compared to the fresh hoppiness of much of the cask stuff.
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