It's been a long long
time since me and a mate of mine have caught up over a beer. I think
the last time we did was before he started his job over a year ago. I
have seen him a few times out and about but we haven't gone for a
midweek beer, just the two of us in ages.
I had the local
Wetherspoon in mind, he had other ideas. We went to a pub called 'The
Weir', not much further along the river from my parents house, where
I currently reside. It is probably only a five minute walk where as
the Wetherspoon is about a seventeen minute walk.
I honestly have no
memory of ever drinking inside the pub, only what I have seen from
going to and from the bar getting drinks. I have sat in the beer
garden many times during the balmy summer months. Inside was warm
with a strong and in my opinion pleasant smell of wood smoke. In the
fireplace were gently smouldering embers glowing a luminescent
orange. The smell alone brought back memories of juvenile pyromania.
We ordered our beers,
he a lager. I went went for a beer named 'Fireside' which was
appropriate given our current surroundings. It is from the Westgate
Brewery, but from looking into it more I have found it is under the
wing of Greene King out of Bury St Edmunds.
It was a deep chestnut
brown with a creamy off white head.
It wasn't doing much
for me after my first couple of gulps but after a few more it started
to sing. As it sloshed around my mouth, caressing my tasted buds, it
grew in intensity and complexity into a well rounded beer somewhere
between a best bitter and a special bitter. I obviously liked it
enough to have a few more pints.
The pub/hotels website
Greene King beers
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