Oh My Goodness!

 I was in work yesterday afternoon and we had work experience students in for their last day (yr 10/4th year in old money).  They were lovely, but exhausting.

I didn't really make inroads into the work I was trying to do.  

Meanwhile the BBB was at home boiler-engineer-wrangling and it took him well into the afternoon, meaning that it would have been pointless to hack down and try to get anything done.

I got a text message (we are that old-fashioned) - "Have you seen what Andy's got on?"

So I looked on the terrible app (Real Ale Finder) which the Crown and Beerarama use to publicise what beer's on.  It was "Aurora Australis" by Burning Sky.  There was also Downlands pale which on any other occasion would have been great but was (fittingly) totally eclipsed by the other guest (which was also much stronger).

No contest then, the Crown it was.

I pretty much gave up working around 3.45pm - packed up and then caught up with one member of staff I haven't seen for a while and bade a fond farewell to the WEX students.

I checked bus times and saw there'd be a but around 4.20pm and advised the BBB.

When I arrived at the pub he was just paying for the first round.  I flopped into a chair with a sigh of relief.

That beer was clearly in utterly perfect condition, with all the right things going on with the malt and the hops. Despite the strength, the first pint went down in less than 30 minutes (we usually take much longer), despite trying to slow down a bit.

The second pint would usually not hold the same thrill as the first - only in this case, it really did.

The post work wind down was a real tonic - and we wanted to prolong it all a little longer so we had a final shared pint (if he'd have suggested a full one, I'd have weakened...but he was playing 'sensible one' yesterday).

Much like an astronomical aurora - that cask will be transient.  I very much doubt it'll last into Sunday so it now lives in the memory of an outstanding pint when its impact was also very much welcomed.  Thank you Burning Sky - you've done it again!