RCH Old Slug Porter, 4.5%
The RCH Brewery began in the 1980s in the Royal Clarence
Hotel in Weston Super Mare in the West Country but had to relocate to a nearby
facility as they were using up all the water. The Old Slug name derives from
the fact the old brewery had a problem with slugs! The Porter itself pours very
very dark brown, on the nose there are roasted malts, cocoa, and coffee.
Lightly carbonated this is easy to drink and on the palate you get more roasted
malts and very slight dark fruit flavours with a long bitter finish. A very
enjoyable porter, 8/10.
High & Mighty Beer of the Gods, 4.5%
High & Mighty Beer Co, from Holyoke, Massachusetts, are
beer-evangelists as well as several other religious based brewing statements
according to their website. The Beer of the Gods follows this string of
religious naming, but moving away from names and statements this is a pale gold
beer with a sweet hop smell. On the palate there are bready malts, wheat with a
spicy sweetness and a smooth mild bitter finish, very refreshing indeed, 7.5/10.
To finish this blog I thought I’d list my favourite 3 quotes
from Emma this year (she really does not like ale);
- St Austell Clouded Yellow – “I don’t know what it tastes of, but it’s not right, bitter dishwater maybe”
- Exeter Brewery Fraid Not – “smells like hay, farmlike, tastes it, that is awful, tastes like when you accidentally suck your finger when you have just used nail polish remover”
- Stroud Five Valleys – “musty straw with malted milk biscuits smell, tastes like mouldy straw with urine in it”
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