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I don’t post enough about my other love on this blog as much as I would like - Real Ale that is……

I have been partaking in the wetherspoons beer festival for the last week or so around the pubs of Cardiff, and have had some great beer… here is a selection.

Anyway you can Vote for your favorites over at their website.

My task for 2009 is to brew my own in the shed, so any tips welcome..

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We don’t get enough shed poetry on readersheds or shedblog let along about beer and sheds.

Tim Baber has sent me this great poem that covers both my main loves (don’t tell Mrs Uncle Wilco) it was written by his father Jim as he says “Written by my dad who is 90 years old and still drinking beer.”

Beer brewed for the shed….

When your throat is dry
And your innards sigh
For a glass of ale or something of that ilk,
Look around ’till you espy
The sign to satisfy
That search for dear old Mother Nature’s milk.

As you wet your upper lip
With a gulp or just a sip -
Your taste buds tell you satisfactions near;
So you fill that arid hollow
With a deep and pleasing swallow
And bless that well-kept shed-conditioned beer.

For beer on draught and real
Can instantly appeal
To nostrils, palate and the inner man;
It lifts you when you’re tired
Can make you feel inspired
And has done since drinking time began.

So here’s a vote of thanks
To the chaps who keep the tanks
Fed with a flow of good full-bodied beer:
To brewers who keep it fit
So that the taste is exquisite
Here’s thanks and praise, both heartfelt and sincere.

Jim Baber (1985)

You can view Master Babers sheds here, a credit you would agree.

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All over the news..

Sort of thirds

Drinkers could soon be able to order two-thirds of a pint under new proposals to change measures for food and drink, it has been announced.

The consultation will consider introducing two-thirds of a pint of draught beer or cider alongside the current pint, half pint and third of a pint – a legal measure that has fallen out of common usage. The consultation runs until January.

The thing is in a beer festival I am happy with three 3rd glasses to test out the beers, but not sure if i would pay for a two thirds pint in a pub as they try and “do you” most of time but not giving a full pint, and most of the staff will be confused as they are with my photo antics everytime I buy a pint.

Of course you could always treat yourself to one of these Ceramic Pint Mugs!

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Keep wanting to do another one of these posts from my Beer of the Week Group

anyway two dates for the diary

The Worlds Biggest Real Ale festival 20th October to 16th November

Oct-O-Bar-Fest 08 Thursday 23rd - Sunday 26th October 2008.

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Not done one of these for ages, but as there seems to be more and more shedpubs and I like my beer

Here is my list of my favourite beers for the last number of weeks.

remember you can add your favourite beers to my flickr group Beer of the Week.,

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