"A PINT OF BITTER PLEASE LANDLORD". "A PINT OF WHAT ?"

This post is partly inspired by an article in a Midlands CAMRA magazine and a couple of online news items.

First to set the scene. Years ago before I could legally drink the only crisp flavour you could get was ready salted , with the salt in a blue bag inside the crisp packet.

Now Ive read this morning in Glasgow Live that a brewery in that fine drinking city called Merchant City have introduced a pale ale made with black tea. I first visualised the buyer of this drink being presented with a teabag to sprinkle the leaves into the bottle then shaking it up like we used to do with the crisp packet.But no, the tea is infused in the brewing process !

There are a couple of Yorkshire breweries have recently introduced rhubarb flavoured beer.

Now Ive nothing against flavoured beers but rhubarb ?. At our 2016 beer festival I had some beetroot cider and it was bloody awful.

 

This leads me to the article in the Camra mag where the author laments the possible passing of the old fashioned English Bitter. So here, by way of a free service are some classic bitters to look out for and enjoy, instead of this endless stream of IPA's .

Black Sheep Best Bitter

Butcombe Bitter

Coniston Bluebird Bitter

Elgoods Cambridge Bitter

Hawkshead Bitter

Holdens Black Country Bitter

Triple fff Altons Pride

   

The fightback starts here !!