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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Hog's Back Brewery

Hog's Back BreweryIf you're ever over this way again, let me take you to the Hog's Back Brewery just a couple of miles away in Tongham, Surrey, for that's where we went last night on a brewery tour, except Mr. Squiggles who was washing his hair or something ;)

And very interesting it was too... an hour tour of a proper brewery brewing proper beer, none of that cheap mass-produced tasteless crap churned out by those faceless corporations...

No, this was stirling stuff. Starting off with a 3.5% session beer, some of that "Hair of the Hog"... then a few jugs of T.E.A. - Traditional English Ale, a 4.2% best seller... then some very tasty "Hop Garden Gold" at 4.6% and finished off with a few "Rip Snorters" weighing in at 5%. Yeah, we got to see the brewery too, see the various grains and the hops, hear about the 11,500 pints they brew every day and... drink beer.

And then we went out for a curry... which was nice.

Right, gotta go, gotta hit the Cove Tandoori now... for more curry and more beer :)

Blue Skies thinking @ 10/07/2006 05:22:00 PM  

13 Comments:

  • At Sun Oct 08, 09:06:00 PM, Blogger Jay said…

    5% ?
    That's beer?

    That sounds morelike tap water to me.

     

  • At Sun Oct 08, 10:10:00 PM, Blogger RahX said…

    Mmmmm beeeeer

    His name is Goku btw, for the way he eats and gets a big round tummy like the dragonball character.

     

  • At Mon Oct 09, 07:46:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    Jay: It's not about the strength, it's about the taste :p
    RahX: Cool kitty. Goku's a bit of training for you guys huh? ;) :)

     

  • At Mon Oct 09, 03:54:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    mmmm beer. i gotta get erik a home brewing kit because he's way into beer ... i gotta go visit you so you can take us to that place ... beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

     

  • At Mon Oct 09, 04:16:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: Ooooh, good idea... then I can get my brew kit out of the garage and send some British Beer brewing recipes and ingredients over to you and Erik to enjoy :D

    Cool beans :D

    Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

     

  • At Tue Oct 10, 02:19:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    oooh youve got a brew kit? does it work well? what kind is it? i'm having trouble deciding what a decent one to buy would be ...

     

  • At Tue Oct 10, 06:03:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: It's just a load of stuff I've aquired over the years... demi-jons, bungs, airlocks, big brewing bucket, syphons, corker, etc... and as for kits... well, there's the stuff in tins like Yorkshire Bitter and Newcastle Brown Ale... then there's the individual ingredients you can make to a recipe... buy your own hops, barley and yeast and mix it all up ;)

    Hey... there's even a place here in Farnborough called the Home Brew Shop :D

     

  • At Wed Oct 11, 07:55:00 AM, Blogger MIKE DA HAT said…

    Thanks for the kind comment on the pic.

     

  • At Wed Oct 11, 04:49:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    thank you for the information :) i will be a-searching for more stuff with which to brew homemade beer. i had a cool chemistry/physics teacher in high school who made his own beer in his bathtub ... i wouldn't drink anything that came out of our bathtub though. cracker eats the hair from the drain and i'm pretty sure erik pees while he's in there. it's pretty gross. and i scrub it all the time, but still. i'm not drinking out of the bathtub.

    ahem. that's all.

     

  • At Thu Oct 12, 03:46:00 PM, Blogger 22i design said…

    I've been there, to the Hog's Back Brewery ;)

     

  • At Thu Oct 12, 03:50:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Mike da Hat: You're welcome, Mike :) Good pic BTW ;)

    Rebekah: You're welcome, Rebekah :) Beer in a bathtub? LOL Better get Erik a bathtub and some ingredients then ;)

    Oh, on the other hand, then maybe it's best not to... ;)

    22i design: I'm sure you have, you Farnborough person, you ;)

     

  • At Sun Nov 19, 05:22:00 PM, Blogger Val Badger said…

    Have visited Hogs Back several times, even had a job interview there once. The shop's pretty amazing as well, an Aladdin's Cave of beers from all over the world, and fresh Hogs Back beer to take away!
    Cheers
    Val x

     

  • At Sun Nov 19, 07:21:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Val Badger: Awesome :) And a job interview too? Wouldn't that be nice? :D :D :D

    Yeah, I love their off-licence, just a shame about the silly opening hours... nowhere to gewt a Duvel on a Monday night :(

     

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