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The American beer fest was too packed to be fun. It took ages getting served so I ended up drinking pints of very expensive beer simply because half pints made no sense.

however, my beer of the festival was, without any doubt, Stone Ruination IPA. With a bitterness count of over 100 it was absolutely fabulous. It's called Ruination cos that's what it does to your palete, after that you cna't drink anything else. Not that I wanted to.

I had it on both cask and keg (an ordering mistake), but the cask was so much better (being warm enough to taste helped).

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 11:11:26 AM EST
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I tried a Tommyknocker's Pick Axe Pale Ale last week in Idaho Springs, Colorado (in mountains west of Denver). Supposedly a terrific beer, but frankly I can't get past wanting a simple Guinness...

http://tommyknocker.com/idahoSprings.html

by asdf on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 11:31:25 AM EST
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Man, I'd really love to live in the mountains out west.  Outrageously pretty.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 11:54:34 AM EST
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Wow, when was the first picture taken ? It's great to see pubs with history like that. Especially if they do good beer (tho the hankering for guinness shames you :-)).

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 12:47:20 PM EST
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I actually found out that they have stone at a couple of the higher-end supermarkets here, and I've been meaning to check it out since seeing the list you had for the festival, but I just haven't gotten round to it yet.  Checked out their website, and they had something interesting-sounding stuff.

Still waiting on a reply from the Greene King distributor here on whether they'll get Olde Trip at some point (and hoping Greene King doesn't ruin it now that Kimberley's not doing it anymore.  I emailed a guy in Britain who said he could ship it over, but the cost was obscene.  £95 for 10 bottles.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 11:57:55 AM EST
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Which reminds me, I have souvenir of the festival which I'll have to work out to get to you somehow.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 12:48:30 PM EST
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Oh?  Do tell.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 01:00:24 PM EST
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they seriously overcharged me for my first round, so I presumed they'd sold me the festival souvenir glasses. So I kept them.

It's very nice with 3 US brewery names on.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 01:08:11 PM EST
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Oh, good call.  

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Jul 5th, 2009 at 01:19:49 PM EST
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