Last night was our last Bristol Beer Festival organizers' meeting before the festival starts.
As set-up manager, I needed to be there to check the last few details.
I'd had a bit of a day of it, and I was detained so I arrived late (I hate arriving late) so I didn't have much time to mull over the beer choices at the bar. They had a couple of Moles beers (but I've never been keen) and Gloucester "Black Simcoe".
I plumped for the latter - even though it was 6.2% and very dark.
I was very glad I did, in fact. It was a really nice balanced beer whose flavour belied its ABV. It allowed me to sip it slowly whilst the stresses of 20 people who are trying to get the final details of a beer festival sorted out were vented.
In the end I only had one pint, which was just as well, and felt perfectly satisfied with my choice, and the volume drunk.
If nothing else, I need to remind myself that, whilst light beers are usually my first choice, black beers - or at least good black beers - are a lovely diversion from time to time.
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