I'm new to this blogging malarkey. For years I have been an opinionated individual in bars, work and elsewhere. Free speech is one of the joys of modern life. I would have said of the western world but I don't possess an iBan and Tal will get p***ed off. Back to the thread. Through the eater of time that is Google Reader I follow some work/cycling orientated blogs so I have a hope of keeping the company blog and facebook page reasonably current and interesting. Lockring Not Included has been a heart warming discovery. Simple pictures that say so much, with an understated heading. This entry is already one paragraph and a sentence too long.
On Wednesday this appeared. Nice picture, thought I, understated content. I commented online.
Friday night, Tom Waits territory, a three quarter moon slung in an obsidian sky. Meeting and old friend in an English ale house. There is a chalk board with tonight's ales, near the bottom, with no price swim some Dogfish Ales on draught. Customers ask the price. If you have to ask you can't afford it, £9 a pint. At 14% it's three times the strength of a session ale so three times the price to calm the nutters is fine. But there on the shelf, away from everything else on the shelf, in parenthesis, quotated, read the following words; Dogfish Head World Wide Stout. ABV 21%! We all avoided it. Well there is only the one bottle, as opposed to the kegs of other Dogfish in the cellar.
Fxdwhl. Did they fib? Or, did 21% just rumple your memory. However, please find attached a picture of three pumps in a twilight alehouse sporting all American fine ales. Thank ye kindly. (Poor piccie from a mobile phone)
Neil
