To be honest, this is mostly a post so that I can try linking images from Instagram into CraigBlog.
Just so you know.
A group from work made the arduous journey to Haddenham for the beer festival.
Naturally, we did brunch first.
The setup is a big sun-baked field, with a stage where bands¹ did their best to get crowd response happening (it didn’t), and a whole lot of tents with booze in them.
And some food trucks.
First beer of the day was an OK-ish cider (I was sticking to half-pints; it was going to be a long-ass day, and the half-pints were on the generous side), the name of which is lost to the mists of time², though I did get a picture.
Then there was this one, an actual beer, named Chocolate Fudge Stout Detectives, from 4TS.
It smelled like coffee.
It tasted, pleasantly, like a cold cup of coffee.
While nice, a half-pint was my limit, as any more would have left me feeling ill – as someone said, there was a lot going in that glass, and I’m not really a stout drinker.
Followed by a Sunset, from Dorset Star.
Or two.
Maybe three.
They were really nice stop judging me.
And rounding it off with a ‘Medium Blend’ from West Milton in Dorset.
Medium Dry … Something. Don’t think they were on their A game when they named it.
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It was a fun, long, day.
At one point we moved so that some of the group could watch the … I think it’s called ” Foot Ball “? … on a giant screen in an adjacent field. A couple of folks and I completely missed the entire innings because we went off to find a drink, then found a pleasantly shady tree to lounge under, and were filled with the desire to never move again.
I mean, we could hear the cheers when England scored a basket, and there was no shortage of post-bout celebration, but tree+shade beats sunburn+crowds.
Oh, and this happened when I got off the train back to my place;
Video on Instagram – turns out I can’t do embeds from my phone
¹ There was one band we were pretty sure had lost their singer, and one of the guitarists was filling in.
With the lyrics on an iPad.
And without the range needed for the material.
Having not warmed up.
² Might have been Hendry Huffcap Perry, from Hecks in Sommerset.