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Sunday, 28 November 2010

A dream

come true

10 comments:

  1. Park Street, Porter. Proper London-style Porter. On Park Street. On Park Street.

    That's a dream for me.

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  2. Fantastic! Is that the Pig's Ear Festival Bethnal Green?

    What was the porter like?

    Gary

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  3. Gary, even better: the Anchor, the former Barclay Perkins brewery tap.

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  4. The Anchor doing a full range of Fullers ales?? I thought it was owned by some pubco now?

    I lived there (well, in the manager's house at the back) when I moved back to London 25 years ago. It was a pretty crap place to drink back then.

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  5. bryangb, they certainly seem to now. Last time I was there a couple of years ago I don't think they did. The photo was taken in what they call the Real Ale Bar, a tiny room on the corner. It's quite nice in there. The rest of the pub isn't great, but that room certainly is. And the Porter was inwonderful condition.

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  6. Barm, I'll be drinking a Fuller's Burton tonight. It's the XXK release.

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  7. Hm, I was wondering about trying to blag an invite to the XX launch. I was at the brewery last week, they told us XX was coming but didn't have any for us to try!

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  8. bryangb, even I haven't tasted it yet. Well, I did have a sip of the wort as it came out of the mash tun.

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  9. Derek Prentice did mention your name in connection with it...

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