Welworthspoon's

Please please please, Bury St Edmunds!! We're in desperate need of a big pub!

In message , Dan Parsons wrote

... selling Greene King at 99p/pint.

I'm trying to work out if this is a jocular request to "bury St Edmunds" literally?

Sadly(!?) the GKIPA moved on to Ruddles Best & I think the 99p has turned into £1.29.

I know there's some really good 'Spoons, but are things really so bad in B.St.E that you're in desperate need of a JDW? (is it a price thing or a beer range thing?)

I've just had a look at the current JDW festival list - anyone recommend anything - I'll prob try the "import" brews - where they import a brewer rather than a beer - e.g. Bend Brewing, Oregon, Heineken(!) & Baron's, Australia.

Just looking at the names "Elgood’s CXXX Bitter" seemed a bit risque, but maybe I'm missing something - I've ordered a pint of Dog's Bollocks before, but I can't order a pint of C***!

I can't wait for the John Smith's Heritage though :~)

I am interested to try Meantime's Pale Ale as I think they very rarely do cask beer at all. cheers MikeMcG

But still a beer brewed in Bury St Edmunds.

I wonder if in order to protect their "flagship brand name" the GK IPA was just renamed Ruddles Best for sale to JDW?

In one episode of the Simpsons Homer had a tour of the Duff brewery and all the different 'brands' of Duff beer were coming out of the same pipe. This probably doesn't happen in UK breweries :)

yep, of course. So I presume the excitement about Spoons is that it'll be the cheapest place to buy GK in town - still not going to get me too hot under the collar :~)

I don't know, but a mate of mine said the Ruddles was very nice the other night in a local JDW (yes, I was surprised to hear that) - I had it in a non-JDW pub & it wasn't good.

No of course not :~) parti-gyle brewing happens in loads of breweries, sometimes it makes for some very good beers - Brakspear's Bitter was a lovely pint, when Henley-brewed it was parti-gyled with Mild, Old Ale, Special, Strong Ale & Light Ale! (I might have forgotten one).

But all were fermented as separate gyles, which I know doesn't sound like it would make much of a difference to a dodgy-sounding practice, but it did seem to make them not just taste like watered down versions of the same brew.

The one beer I've tasted having known it was simply a watered down (post fermentation) of a stronger beer, really did taste like it was - not good, while the stronger brew was delicious.

I'm trying to remember all the GK "ghosts" - Morland (Speckled Hen) & Ruddles, plus a few moons ago they used to brew Rayments (a hangover from when they owned the brewery at Furneux Pelham) & likewise they took over Wells & Winch, Biggleswade, which later brewed Genuine Oirish Harp Lager (again closed by GK in the late 1990s)

cheers MikeMcG

Charles Wells party Gyle, weather this is done for the Young's, I do not know as they apparently built a new brewery for Young's-wells

some of the empty stores are being converted to Iceland's Frozen food stores.

They've all been at least worht the money so far..:-)

The Stonehnge eye-opener was interesting and good.

I tried 4 tonight - the (Yukon/Canadian) Lead Dog was initially just OK, but grew on me to become quite nice.

The Moorhouse's Old Boss was lovely & freshly hoppy.

The Caley Raspberry Fool was OK & pretty balanced - fairly "beery"; but with a good hint of fruit flavour, not too sweet & not too fake in the fruit.

cheers, MikeMcG