A friend of mine picked me up a bottle of this in an English supermarket last week. He gave it to me saying that he wouldn’t normally be a fan of Marston’s beers but that this New World Pale Ale was pretty good at about £2. It’s got some Australian hops in the mix which make it pleasantly fruity. Enjoy it while there’s still a chance of an Indian Summer. ( just nip across the border and pick up a bottle! )
This reminded me of a question posed at the most recent Athlone Beer Club meet up. Would you rather drink a craft/micro beer that the brewer had made with his own blood, sweat and tears (figuratively speaking! ) or a slightly better tasting beer produced by a faceless macro corporation (if such a beer exists) ? Does it matter to you?
The better tasting one, every time. Passion has no flavour.
We do get fierce philosophical after a few beers…
In the late seventies there was a pub in Stoke that did a pint of Marston’s that changed your view of beer, politics and which of the barmaids had the comeliest smile. I never travelled to Stoke just for the sake of the beer but there were times when I wouldn’t have gone if a pint wasn’t part of the deal. Of course there have been some takeovers since then.
But that was when Marston’s was Marston’s, rather than now when Marston’s is Wolverhampton & Dudley wearing its most prized acquisition as a skin mask.
That sounds like it was a good combination of time and place and beer
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