Beer With...

Matching beer with is now taken very seriously - and quite right too.  But a number of brewers, ourselves included, have felt this does not take beer matching far enough.  One of the great proponents of this philosophy is the Rt DisHon Marc Bartram, ipa, fv, hlt, etc.  On his otherwise very sparse website, artfully created by his team of brewery spiders, Young Bartram, as he is respectfully known by his peers, has taken a lead in matching beer not only with food, but also literature, music and even it seems Frank Zappa albums. 

So it is this spirit that we take up the baton up ourselves from Young Bartram, clean it off, and sally forth into the world of beer matching.  But what with?  Well, we thought about Politicians, after all they too can leave a bitter taste, often promise much then fail to deliver pleasure.  But you rarely want another afterwards, so we ruled them out.  Farm machinery came next - after all, who hasn't enjoyed sitting on a time worn old baler whilst sampling a finely crafted summer ale.  But no, that would be machinery, which doesn't really mix well with alcohol.  TV personalities were suggested, but again no - we couldn't think of one we'd get as far as drinking with before wanting to punch them up the off switch.

So this is it.  The one thing that works well a nice glass of beer (a pint of course) on a balmy summer day.  The one thing no Herbert from the Gubbinsment could possibly say was going to result in instant death every time you.... no wait .... the Herberts say I'm wrong.  It now appears Soft toys are deemed hazardous, offensive, and apparently can cause choking if smoked, and brain injury if wrapped round a brick and thrown really quite hard at someone. 

Oh well, back to drinking beer with beer...