Blogging and Beer
Welcome to the site.
As the subtle URL and site name may have hinted this is a website owned by and dedicated to Drew Wilkins.
That’s me!
For those of you who don’t know me you can find out a bit more about me on the About page and hopefully on some of the other pages I plan to add to this site.
However, I’m keen to avoid my first blog being all about me and how I’ve made a blog so instead I thought I’d talk about something else dear to my heart – Beer!
“And I don’t mean just like in no paper cup, I’m talking about a glass of beer.” – Pulp Fiction
I have the privilege of living in the United Kingdom – the home of great beer.
Sure the Belgians can produce a reasonable enough brew and, if the mood takes me, I’m partial to beer from pretty much anywhere, but the truly great beers come from here in the UK.
Before I elaborate on this further I feel I should add a caveat to my statement about enjoying beer from pretty much anywhere. There is one beer, if you can even call it beer, that was so wretched, so truly fowl that the mere thought of it still makes my teeth sweat. The drink in question came from Mexico and had a chilli in the bottle. This alone should have tipped me off but at the time I was young and brave, so I went ahead and drank it. Please consider these to be words of wisdom from someone who has experienced the dark side of beer and knows that that way leads to suffering. Never drink beer that has a chilli in it!
Anyway, I digress. I live in Oxfordshire and am fortunate to live not too far from the Hook Norton Brewery. Hook Norton produces beer at its finest. Traditional beer with some real taste to it. If you’ve never had the chance to try a pint brewed at the Hook Norton brewery then the loss is most definitely yours. I can strongly recommend a pint of Old Hooky.
However, I find Hook Norton, well known and well loved as it is, to sometimes be a bit too heavy on a warm summer evening. But fear not because I have found a lip smackingly good brew for the summer months. It’s slightly adventurous in that it contains raspberry juice but, unlike its evil Mexican cousin, the result is refreshing and doesn’t make you feel like John Hurt in Alien. The beer in question is Samuel Smith’s Organic Raspberry Fruit Beer and if you’ve not tried it I think you’ll like it.
