Beef and beer casserole is delicious. Since I'm staying in Hitchin for a few more days in a week than usual, we've been cooking more at home. So, when planning some shopping I suggested I make a casserole that can hubble gently in the oven as I work and be ready pretty much any time which means we don't have to have a particular eating timetable. We're no souffle household, that's for sure.
So we ordered some lovely shin beef from Ocado and what you need for the casserole is a dark, reasonably strongly flavoured but sweetish beer. So we added a bottle of Fullers London Porter to the basket.
Neither of us drink much bottled beer these days, much preferring draught, but we figured that this beer should be just the thing (I'm quite partial to Old Peculier in a casserole too).
I was both sad, and narked, therefore when the beer was substituted. Sad because the Porter wasn't available and narked that the substitute they offered was nothing like it. They had brought a bottle of London Pride with them - that's no use in a casserole whatsoever!
I guess it's probably asking too much for them to substitute the style of the beer - although I can't shake the feeling the shopper might have subbed a different Cabernet Sauvignon...and surely this isn't that much different.
It's OK, I realise this is a very minor problem on the global scale...it's not even the biggest problem I've had in the last couple of hours...it's just that in all the increasing popularity in beer and people's improving familiarity with our national drink I guess I was just hoping for better.
Still, it gives us a good excuse to go to the Half Moon to get some dark draught beer on take-out...and that'll please Howard.
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