[Insert lager joke here]
Tsingtao beer is seeing a sales slump after a video was released that appeared to show a worker pissing into a brewing vat.
Beer
The bitter taste of climate change.
As if things couldn’t get worse- climate change is set to reduce the quantity and quality of beer. Warming and changing seasons and precipitation patterns mean a reduction in the hops harvest, with flowers containing less of the alpha acids that give the flavour.
The White House brew house
Barack Obama has started brewing beer in The White House kitchens. There have been so many requests that they’ve now published the recipes, which utilise honey from the first beehives on the White House’s lawns.
Mitt Romney would just buy a brewery, and then have them change their recipe to the blandest, most insipid bilge possible.
via BoingBoing
Pubs of Manchester
Pubs of Manchester is about exactly what it says. Public houses, old, new, dead or surviving, in Greater Manchester.
The Gnome
The Gnome, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Scottish gnome, in fact.
Bierwelt
I am, eventually, going to Interrail around Europe. I’ve been promising myself this for the last few years. It’s already looking like this isn’t the year I’ll do it, though it should be the one where I start putting aside the money to fund it.
In the mean time, I’ll keep adding places to the list of locations to visit. Such as Bierwelt, profiled today on BoingBoing, a Bavarian beer-centric theme park. The park is 90 kilometres from Munich and can be reached by train. The fact that it involves beer automatically puts it near the top of the (as yet unstarted if I’m honest) list.
Smithfield Tavern, I think
Smithfield Tavern, I think, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Far better than the Burton Arms, which was so bad I didn’t take picture.
The Castle Hotel
The Castle Hotel, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Just a bit full.
Mother Mac’s
Mother Mac’s, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Third pub.
Pub two- The Shakespeare
Pub two- The Shakespeare, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
All dark wood. Okay beer.
The birthday pub crawl has begun at Microbar in the Arndale
The birthday pub crawl has begun at Microbar in the Arndale, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
It’s grown since I last walked past it.
Horseradish vodka 1
It has become a tradition of the Manchester Rag Beerfest to have flavoured vodkas, with such delights as smokey bacon flavour (allegedly vegan). English Russia have a recipe for horseradish vodka they might like to try next year.
It’s always Cask Ale Week at Casa Spinneyhead
Well, it would be if I could get myself a cask of beer, but you get the idea.
It’s Cask Ale week. Go and drinks some proper beer.
Tactical Nuclear Penguin 2
Tactical Nuclear Penguin from BrewDog on Vimeo.
This is a beer that should be tried at least once. Providing they’re not banned from selling it.
Dick Turpin’
I feel I should be embarrassed by this one, but everyone I’ve shown it to thinks it’s funny.
Canine testicles, as requested
Dog’s Bollocks is selling well, but I was told I should do a sign for it anyway.
It’s the Von Trapp zombies
Eidelweiss, eidelweiss all the fucking time.
It’s Beerfest!
And oddly enough I’m in the Underground.
NoWriMo for me this year
I’m not doing anything for National Novel Writing Month this year. I’m moving house this weekend, going to start on Point of Contactn as soon as I’ve got a drawing board and the light box set up and going to Beerfest next week, so I’m too busy. (Okay, Beerfest is an option, but it’s Beerfest,it’s part of my life.)
The cherry stout experiment begins
It would have been cherry beer, but the cherries were beginning to rot and there was some Mackeson’s left from an earlier experiment. The volume of liquid will increase when I work out what I can add to the mix.