I am very pool league tonight, due to a management cock up this is my sole beer of choice
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About a hundred years ago I did a stint in Bristol putting in a cheque-writing system for Sun Life - I wrote it (most of it) and it produced ÂŁ75m of cheques a year and I was stupid enough not to put in a back-door that sent ÂŁ1000 once a month to a Mr B Letch of Eastleigh.
Anyway, night outs with their IT implementation team consisted of lots of hot curries and lots of warm and cloudy local beers. But try as hard as they might I refused to drink their Butt Cum.
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Or like a mouth full of juicy plumsâŠ
Iâm becoming a regular in Brizzle now most of my minions are based there.
The craft beer scene is crazy, so much do you can go into half a dozen pubs and not be able to get a decent pint of Carlsberg. Mind you a decent dose of the shits the next day after all that cloudy / chewy muck though is a dead cert - liquid fibre they call it 
Only joshing, a lot of it isnât too bad tbf ( youâre still hard pressed to avoid it though if itâs not your thing)
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Yep, there are some great craft ale bars in Bristol but itâs also got some of the best UK breweries too - New Bristol, Left-Handed Giant, Arbor plus a bunch of others I havenât got around to trying yet.
Also if you yearn after a swollen and veiny nose, there are some excellent ciders on offer.
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Is my particular fave - just round the corner from the office in Brizzle - 4min walk. Beer brewed on site. Annoyingly they donât sell drinks in pints, but charge equivalent London prices for short measure 
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Good god Feb 1971 
Cunts
I have an excuse
Cunts
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So Bletch (NotBletch) has a beer call with Halo on a Friday. A Zoom thing that started in lockdown and didnât really stop.
This Friday I have mostly been drinkingâŠ
Northern Monk Heretic
BIG fan of Northern Monk and not just because I look like a Southern Monk.
Their IPAs are always on point. This is good but not great. Itâs quite malty and feels stronger than the 6.5% on the can. Nice. But not that special.
But fuck me, they have some excellent beers at good prices in cans - just not this one.
SALT - Huck-a-Buck
My cheap, go-to, cheap, supermarket, cheap, work-a-day brew is Vocation Hop Skip and Juice - A 5.7% Pale Ale. Itâs fantastic - hazy, fruity and consistent if not spectacular. But it is cheap ~ÂŁ2 / 440ml. This MIGHT just have knocked it off its perch. If I didnât have to journey to Winnal Tesco to find it Iâd PROBABLY take this over HSaJ.
Mad Squirrel - Aztec
New brewery and beer to me. Lots of yeast in the glass afterwards which means it probably ferments in the can or it had slightly turned. Sober me would have trusted my judgement and reviewed in on its merit but pissed me canât see past the dead stuff in the glass at the end.
Itâs a proper IPA with piney bitterness at the end but is also hazy a fruity. Not really to my taste.
Cunts
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Glad youâre trying them so we donât have to
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Youâre like the guy with a Nokia when the Internet hit.
You can stick with SMS and the Snake game if you want but imagine what life would be like if you opened your mind to the Internet of London yeast and the social media of Citra hops.
Cunt.
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Thought that was the default on this site?
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I even have the badge
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I was genuinely wondering recently whether you could still get proper old fashioned car phones fitted. Would be a great bit of retro for the old BMW, I already got a Blaupunkt stereo for it 
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God Iâm good.
Mrs P_Fâs workmates decided a trip to the Forest & Castle was a good idea on a sunny bank holiday. They dragged me along to âget exerciseâ
Obviously it was traffic carnage, nowhere to park.
I have an idea i said, after all i am a tour guide.
And here we are Tencyn Browar, in a Forest. It has
A WALL OF BEER!
(& Craft Vodkas)
I have a card with ÂŁ20 on it donated for my genius
I am in heaven
Because i ainât driving!
I
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Cunts.
Right, Iâve got a post-Friday-beers-with-Halo buzz going on so thought I better come and educate you twats about beer in my pseudo-regular âBletch throws beer-pearls before swineâ review.
This week I have mostly been drinking IPA. For a change.
Beak Brewery - Parade - IPA 6%.
If ya likes ya beers, buy some Beak Brewery stuff. Full stop. These boys know what theyâre about.
Not a traditional IPA in that there isnât much bitterness after itâs gone down but this is fucking lovely. Loads of bubbles moving loads fruity flavour hither and yon leaving a subtle, distant orange pith on the back of the palate.
Just worryingly easy to quaff, and given that this is the 3rd best of the 3 Beak beers Iâve had recently itâs still head and shoulders above most of the âstraightâ cloudy IPAs Iâve had in a while. Not that you cunts would appreciate it.
Buys some. Bletch rating 4.25 out of 5.
Northern Monk Rocket Lolly @ 4.7%
Dog shit.
Massive respect for Northern Monk but theyâve seemingly used concentrate to get a fruity flavour out of this. The fruit is there but itâs chemical and fraudulent. You know the way that when hops give you the fruit notes, you usually have to go looking for it - concentrating on hints of flavours that if you donât pay attention disappear quickly. Well then is the absolute opposite. Itâs like someone has poured strawberry jam, Robinsonâs Orange Barley Water and Roses Lime Juice Cordial straight into the brewing process. All youâre left with on the palate is saccharin sweetness and regret.
Iâd be lying if I thought any of you cunts had the capacity to understand what Iâm on about.
Avoid. Bletch rating 2 and 32/54ths.
Northern Monk Heaven - Hazy IPA @ 7.2%
Thatâs what a strong New England IPA is all about. Four or five different things going on on the palate once you sup. Then it gives way to a malty strength that reminds you itâs got a bit of a kick. If you think really hard as youâre drinking you get sweet fruit notes but nothing too citrusy. This is peachy, mango-y and then bang it reminds you itâs 7.2%. But youâre all given a pass as I donât expect you cunts to understand.
Buy some. Bletch rating 4 and a smidge out of 5.
Also rans.
Iâm currently supping a BrewDog Double Hazy @7.2% but as youâve all presumably tried it or its detuned sibling âHazy Janeâ Iâm not going to waste my time telling you that itâs a tasty and good value way to get out of your tree.
Cunts.
