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....