Beer Diary

January 1st 2011 saw Mike and I in a new pub, The Plough (in Radford). We decided that because this was new to us and we liked trying new beers everytime we found them, we'd start keeping a beer & pub diary. I carry my diary round with me most places and because it's an academic one and I bought it in January, there are 6 months of redundant page space! So, since that January 1st the diary has taken shape as follows:

January 4th: Victoria, Beeston

Brewsters, Hophead 3.6%

Janurary 12th: Dolphin Inn, Derby

Dolphin 1530 4.4% (Nottingham Brewery Co.)

QUAD cinema bar, Derby

Blackhole Bitter 3.8% (smokey)

January 15th: Roebuck Inn

Pot 'O' Gold 4.6% (Magpie Brewery....but much less smokey than their others!!!!)

January 21st: The Lion, Basford

West Mills Derbyshire 'Armadillo' 4.9% (this tastes even BETTER than the faithful Harvest Pale!)

Janurary 28th: Horse & Groom, Basford

'Stirling Pale' 3.9% (Flipside Brewery)

February 10th: Hand & Heart, Derby Road

New Zealand Pale Ale 5%

Slaters 'HAKA' 5%

March 5th: (unknown pub!)

Ape Ale 5% (Blue Monkey Brewery which always gets a thumbs up from Mike!)

Westons IPA 4.6% (Sarrow Brewing Co.)

(unknown date!) that's no good if you're keeping a DIARY?!

Canalhouse, Nottingham

Kiss Me Kate (for the Royal Wedding!) 4.3% (Castle Rock Brewery) a nice Pale Ale

(unknown date!)

The Boat Inn, Lenton

Ginger Tom 4.5% (and as the name suggests...it's a ginger, er, beer!!!)

May saw us taking a month off from drinking! We'd had a few too many heavy nights and were saving up for a trip to Portugal so thought a month off would do us some good... it was a bit harder than we'd perhaps anticipated but we managed and celebrated with a pint in the Castle Pub before we left!