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Anti-Social Beer Drinking

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Right now, the attendees of the European Beer Bloggers Conference are enjoying beers from all around Europe. Beers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and Bulgaria are all present.

I tried a few myself. There’s some good beers there, but I found myself struggling to appreciate them. I needed to sit down, and relax with a good beer. This is what has bought me to North Bar.

It’s incredibly antisocial of me, but you know what, I don’t care. I enjoy beer best when I can relax, just me and a beer, which is exactly what I have right now. There are other people here, but at this table it’s just me and a bottle of Mikkeller 19. From what I understand it’s brewed with 19 hops. I can’t say I’d know that if I hadn’t been told, but I can say I rather like it.

Anti-social beer drinking. Try it some time, you might enjoy it.

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The Friday Pint #20 – Raw Brewing Company Grey Ghost IPA

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With the EBBC registration and trade show in an hour and a half’s time, choosing to come up to North Bar and drink my 20th Friday Pint probably isn’t the best of ideas. Here I am though, with a pint of Raw Brewing Company’s Grey Ghost IPA.

I’m impressed. It’s pale, and bitter and seems like a very good start to the day. It’s not really inspiring any extravagant descriptive hyperbole from me, but it is a rather good IPA.

So, 20 weeks on from when I started this strand, with no real plan in mind other than to improve my writing and descriptive skills, what have I acheived? Well, I’m still not entirely sure if there is a plan or structure. I’m trying to stick to my original idea of trying something new, though this hasn’t always been possible, or appropriate. Some of the pints have been responsible for a stream of writing about themselves, whilst others have merely been sipping matter as I jot down what’s in my head.

I’ll be honest and say this one isn’t really doing either, despite it being one of the best Friday Pints in recent weeks.

Kind of disappointing this post really, isn’t it?

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Black and Tan Experiments #12 – Magic Rock and Brooklyn.

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So, I am now in Leeds, and after failing to find a comic book shop to buy this weeks issues of Batman, I find myself in North Bar.

I like it. It’s how a bar should be in my mind. A bar is long, it can get busy, and conversations often merge into one murmuring noise. A pub in comparison is more square, it will often have separate areas for different purposes. A pub is very different from a bar.

I look at what’s on. Behind the bar on the blackboard I see the words “Black and Tan”, in this case a mix of Magic Rock’s Dark Arts, and Brooklyn Lager. On the bar though is Brooklyn’s Soriachi Ace. I order a half only to find it’s run out.

And so here I am, Black and Tan #12 in front of me. It’s my first beer since reaching Leeds. It’s not overly impressive. The lager mellows the stout in a way that isn’t really noticeable, but makes it a lot more quaffable. Dark Arts on its own I tend to sip. This I appear to be swigging.

I have half a glass left. The question is, with the pre conference pub crawl looming, do I stay for another?

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