Beer Heaven

My little flat is like a beer oasis at the moment. After recent deliveries from Beer Ventures, Beer Merchants, a fistful of beers from Whole Foods in Kensington and some samples sent to me by Nicky who works takes care of PR for Marston's, Innis and Gunn and a few other breweries - my flat is pretty rammed with various bottles of good beer. So many in fact that I am going to be dropping a few 'ticks' in here and there to keep you guys on your toes! Make no mistake about it, these will not be beer reviews and there will be no intellectualizing.

Anyhow at some stage I usually post about my Friday night's beer activities. Maybe not this week. Well actually nothing really exciting happened. I had two pints of Abbot Ale at the Clock Tower on Leather Lane during my lunch hour, a pint of poorly conditioned Deuchar's IPA followed by a pint of Bombardier at the Roebuck in Chiswick and then a bottle of Peroni Gran Reserva over dinner. As I said, not particularly exciting.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to find the time to tell you about Saturday's boozing which was a little more interesting! Also, the picture at the top is a bottle of Meantime Raspberry. Even though I am a big fan of Meantime beers in general, this beer was utter shit. Avoid at all costs.

Well's Eagle IPA

Well's Eagle IPA (cask 3.6% abv) is another ordinary bitter marketed incorrectly as an IPA to create interest in the beer. The beer itself is nothing extrodinary, but is a decent pint none the less. I enjoyed this one during a Sunday lunch at "The Roebuck" a gastropub in Chiswick, W4 and it complimented the pork roast I was eating nicely!

From the website which i have linked to below, I get the impression that Eagle IPA is a brand as much as an individual beer as you can get the beer in bottle, can, cask or nitrokeg and each of these offers a different abv (ie the can has an abv of 5% and the cask is 3.6%).

Anyhow this is a beer that you should check out if you see it on cask at the pub, but I wouldnt make any special effort to search it out.

Website:http://www.eaglebitter.co.uk/

Well's Bombardier

After the dismal pint of Fuller London Porter we decided to head back down towards the Clerkenwell area and ended up in a small gastropub called ‘The Gunmaker’. Beer selection here was a little disappointing compared their awesome looking food menu, with Bombadier and Young’s Bitter being the two uninspiring choices. As we had already had a pint of Young’s Bitter earlier in the evening we decided to have a Bombardier. This beer was ok, and benefits from some cask hopping which at least makes it vaguely interesting but on the whole it’s a pretty ordinary beer. It was fresh and had been kept in good condition if that is any consolation.

This is from the Bombardier website;

As well as being widely available as a cask and keg ale in pubs the length and breadth of Britain, Wells Bombardier is also a successful export brand and is enjoyed by discerning drinkers and English ale aficionados in over 20 countries.The popular draught variants of the brand are complimented by a 5.2% ABV version of the beer in bottles - the country's only full English pint bottle. Wells Bombardier can also be found in 500ml cans and in a pioneering minicask, which delivers 8.8 pints to drinkers who want to enjoy the authentic cask ale taste in the comfort of their own homes.Whether you want to visit your local Charles Wells pub, one of our many Free Trade stockists, or put your feet up at home after a hard days work, our aim is to make the unique taste, that is Wells Bombardier, available for your enjoyment.Take some time to browse our range to discover more about the Wells Bombardier range, how we brew it and the meticulous care we take in selecting and combining the finest ingredients.