Great British Ossian Fest

Off down to London for the Great British BeerFest on Tuesday for the afternoon session. Looking forward to it as there's 4 kilderkins of Ossian and 4 kilderkins of Sunburst up for drinking. Hope to catch up with some customers there too...
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Ken

Great British Beer Festival (2)

Fergus, Dixie and I (R to L) outside the Jerusalem Tavern, Farringdon in London before heading off to the GBBF at Earl's Court. Top pub, tip top beer also. We'd started off at the Old Mitre in Hatton Garden for a pint at its Scottish Beer Fest but my camera batteries had run out so no pic there.

Independence and Lia Fail on the bar - I'll have a swift half please. By the way, do you know who brews these fine ales? Answers on a postcard please...

Chief of Sales Dixie and Managing Director Fergus trying not to look like kids in a candy store with all that beer about. And there was an awful lot of beer.

Czech interlude here - Adam Matuška and his girlfriend Karolina from the Matuška MicroBrewery in Czech Republic. Delicious wheat beer fresh from the kegs he'd driven over 2 days before. Na zdraví!

Ok...I think it's time to get the train home.

Great British Beer Festival

On the late brew today, as Richard did the early first brew this morning. I mashed in at 1pm, cast the copper at 6pm, topping up FV5 with the 2nd brew of Ossian. Cleaning the wort line and paraflow at the moment, so have a few minutes to add to the blog.

Very excited today as Fergus and I are off to London for the Great British Beer Festival tonight on the night train at 23.21 from Perth Station platform 4. Not quite Hogwart's express but if there's any magic in the air we'll catch a few zeds before tomorrow's exhausting schedule.

First call is the London Scottish drill hall in Victoria (only London source of bottle Ossian) for a cuppa and shower, then off to the Old Mitre Tavern, Hatton Garden (a regular draught customer of ours), the Jerusalem Tavern in Farringdon for a bite to eat and a pint of St Peter's Ale, then off to the Beerfest at Earls' Court. Homeward bound on the night train from Euston at 21.15. Mashing in at 6am Wednesday, if train's on time....