Golden Glory

My wife picked up this bottle of Golden Glory (4.5% abv) whilst at Tesco a couple of weeks ago. I originally had no intention of posting about it until I was looking it up on the Hall and Woodhouse website today. The beer itself is quite dry with a definite wheat beer like taste, but what intrigued me was the intense fruit aroma that this beer emits. I originally interpreted the aroma to be of passionfruit and thought that it must be hopped with some new whizz bang New Zealand based hop. I was wrong, this beer is actually fortified with peach extract - thats right peach extract. Now why would anybody want to do this, I don't know? I suspect that the original beer was too shit to sell so they have jazzed it up with some fruit extract to make it palatable. When the warmer months roll in I'll consider looking this beer up again but for now I'll maintain my position that fruit extracts have no place in beer.
For those interested the beer was pretty uninspiring, but I guess most of you know that already...

Pickled Partridge

I seem to have a new favourite pint glass. It's a Badger branded Pickled Partridge pint, and it is a cross between a traditional pint and an oversized wine glass. A happy medium! This particular glass was gifted to me over 12 months ago by Tom and Maura who used to manage The Andover Arms, along with a couple of Fuller's Rugby jerseys and my coveted ESB stemmed glass.

My wife noticed that I had been using the glass (which had been sitting in a box collecting dust) and picked up a bottle of Pickled Partridge (4.5% abv) from Tesco. Overall I like the beer. It's malty and as a special bitter should be and it maintains a cask like taste even though it has been bottled. A decent beer. Website

I should also note that this glass is a 'pint to line' glass, which actually makes the glass slightly larger than a pint. Currently there is plenty of debate over such glasses here and here.