Festival week
The Baron’s four-week beer festival continues its impressive way with a quiz night tomorrow (Sunday, May 11) at 9pm.
This week is all about beers from Merseyside, with brews from the Southport Brewery, Cain’s, the George Wright Brewery of Rainford and, most intriguingly of all, Higson’s – a Bootle-brewed version of the much loved Liverpool ale that disappeared decades ago to the horror of its fans.
Meanwhile, The Southport Food and Drink Festival takes place from May 15-18.
There will be a range of activities and attractions on offer in the town throughout the four-day festival – from expert beer and wine tastings to ale-related beauty treatments.
I’d give you more on what’s going on, but trying to get info from Sefton Council is like trying to get blood out of a stone. Camra are doing a stall somewhere with free beer samples.
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Obviously my palate has changed dramatically from the time when I drank in the Higsons pub by the Atlas cinema in Walton. The bitter on now at the Barons rips the sides of my tongue away and reminds me of why we could only drink about four pints before you know what. Nothing wrong with it at all, but after tasting the Ind Coope Burton it was a bit of a shock. Of course, when it was served at not far off room temperature, the alpha acid was more predominant and they really were true ‘bitters’. I wonder if anyone will recreate Bents, Walkers or Threllies?
jmensa - May 11, 2008 at 6:07 pm