West Beers : Every Thursday @ The Lamb Brewery, W4 4PH

I'll rock up this one day just to fuck with you all. :P

Not me I'm afraid, avoiding people so I can visit my parents.

'This week?' indefinitely cancelled.
@ffm @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@NorthLondonLight @Regal @Alex_Ch
@seager
@SwissChap
@thebrenthamtaffy @ChewyCheeks
@fasih @timages
@goosenoose

In.

Someone 'West' must know how to set up a telephone conference chat we could all dial in to,
to help each other get through the self-isolation/London lockdown?

I can sort something

I did "socially distanced" drinks with people on my driveway with disinfected seats set up 2m+ apart ha ha - could do it at mine if people want to. I can provide beers, but might defeat the purpose so maybe BYOB? I would have to check that the other half is happy with that as well, of course!

I've got a deck chair on my little balcony. In shorts and tshirt. WTF is happening?

I've got a deck chair on my little balcony. In shorts and tshirt. WTF is happening?

You've dressed your deckchair in shorts and T-shirt?

Don't you just love English. It's quirky. Rules can be. Broken.

and yet

things will work. out in the end.

Apologies,
cannot think why I left you off the weekly reminder list.

Who were you serenading?
or,
were you banished to the balcony for social distancing?

Nah man, that's where the sun shines all day. We were both out there with our laptops pretending really hard to work. ;0)

Do the tin cans and string require special 5G knots these days?

Wed lunchtime bump for 'something'.

This week's bump is of course virtual.
Anyone with the nous/wherewithal to set up something we could
all dial into to have a group chat?

@ffm @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@NorthLondonLight @Regal @Alex_Ch
@seager @jdmitch
@SwissChap
@thebrenthamtaffy @ChewyCheeks
@fasih @timages
@goosenoose

Sadly today’s shop from Morrisons replaced my beers with these:
2.8%
What even is this ? 😂😭

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Brown Ale,
going back to the mid- to late '70s,
I never saw Mild in outer north west London sports clubs bars,
but,
Mann's Brown Ale, in bottles was always available
for those who found Bitter too bitter.
It was a step further along from a 'Pint of Light & Bitter'.
A generous landlord/barperson would raw of 2/3 point of Bitter
and also hand over a half pint bottle of 'Light Ale'.
A meanie would pour the Light Ale into the pint glass then top off with Bitter.

Mann's was a London brewer, with the Albion Brewery in Whitechapel,
merging with Watney Combe Reid in 1958.

When I was at uni in Liverpool in the '80s, the local bitter (Higsons/Tetleys) was so bad that it was the norm to make it palatable by adding brown ale, I used to drink either "brown bitter" (1/2pt bitter, 1/2pt brown ale), or "brown mix" (1/2pt mild, 1/2pt brown ale). Fortunately, there were a few pubs like The Crack that sold imported fancy foreign exported beers such as Boddingtons from Manchester.

Those were the days!

Ha,
when I, (incredibly), found a job with a firm in Liverpool in the mid '90s,
it was just down the road from the Higsons/Cains brewery,
but by that time it was owned by a Danish company.

if anyone is keen to join, here's a google meet (shouldn't need a sign-in I hope?):
https://meet.google.com/wmd-maee-erc
I am drinking the controversial Mann's brown ale, and finishing up some work, but happy for anyone to join...

Liverpool, my birthplace was all Cains beer.
My West's drink tonight now that I've evolved my palate is Chimey blue at 9%

Cheers 🍻

That worked well.

I forget to remember you're a Scouser, by birth.