…but you’ve only got a day left.
We somehow managed to miss / forget that the Pembury was having a beer festival, but fortunately happened to be going that way anyway today.
So if you are in the area, as always, it’s worth popping in. There was a bunch of lovely ales from the Jarrow brewery, which should be enough to get most of you in. Of interest in the continuing theme of novelty beer marketing was the “Back to Black” Amy Winehouse-inspired beer from Huntingdonshire brewery Son of Sid. Tasted a lot like Milton’s Nero, and was certainly pulling in the punters with the unusual name / pump clip.
Highlight taste-wise was Dark Star’s Six Hop Ale, obviously a nod to American beer styles with its “extreme” hoppiness. It does it well, having hop complexity without being overly bitter or grassy. At 6.5%, it’s not a session beer, but it’s very tasty. There might be room for strong “extreme” beers from the cask if people can get used to drinking them by the half.
So go along if you can. Just try to avoid sitting next to the smelly racists who crashed our table.