Talking about beer

In our local, the Dolphin tonight, and we got talking about beer.  We’re not connoisseurs, we’re just ordinary beer drinkers, but we have enjoyed beer for long enough to know not only what we like, but what makes what we like the way we like it.

It was  beer which brought me and my husband together twenty-five years ago. If you can imagine, I was writing, working on my computer, engaged totally in the story I was telling and the phone rang. Still with my head full of the narrative I answered the phone… Hello, it’s Bari from work…  I barely listened as Bari from work wondered if I would like to go out for a drink… Still thinking about my story I inadvertently agreed to go ‘out for a drink’. I put the phone down and thought ‘Oh ****! Well, at least he will take me somewhere which serves decent beer.’

Bari took me to the Old Sair Inn which served excellent beer… a year later we married and before long we had children and we are still enjoying beer! Tonight in our great local pub, the Dolphin, we were talking beer. We were drinking Otter, from Otter Brewery, but we talked about Bank’s beer from the Midlands, and Hanson’s from the Midlands too, and Bass. We talked about a company which took over two breweries, which went on to produce two beers from exactly the same recipe… the difference was they each had differnet warer, one’s water was supplied by Shropshire, the other by West Midlands… the two beers tasted completely different, differnet water, different beer. That’s the sort of things we beer drinkers talk about!