Silo Ted
Suspended in an Aspic Consomm
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Picked up a 6-pack of Australian made ESB the weekend before last, and loved it so much that the Mrs only managed to get one bottle out of it before I destroyed the rest. (yea, shit happens, baby). So when a mate of mine came over last Saturday and asked what sort of beers he should pick up, I suggested the same again. Sadly, every one of the five bottles we cracked was a wild gusher, and expelled about 1/4 of the contents. Inexplicable, in that he walked home with them from the shops, didn't drop them, and the carry pack wasn't damaged, so no signs of bad handling prior to sale.
This evening, a full six days later, I cracked the remaining bottle from the 6-pack that had been in the fridge for that time, and again, it was a gusher. And as my second beer for tonight (after a Fullers IPA) i detected something not quite right about the taste and the smell. The smell was reminiscent of the old calamine lotion that grandma used to dab onto itchy mozzie bites. And the taste was not the best. Tolerable, but not the awesomeness that this beer presented as two weeks ago. I should mention that when we had the gusher 6 pack I had been drinking wine and smoking all day, so my perception was not at it's best.
Bloke at the bottle shop suggested that in the space of a week, it's quite likely both 6 packs were from the same carton, or at the very least, definitely from the same batch run. So how the hell could the same beer taste, smell and gush so badly ? A bottle-borne infection would explain a single gusher, but the whole 6-pack ?
This evening, a full six days later, I cracked the remaining bottle from the 6-pack that had been in the fridge for that time, and again, it was a gusher. And as my second beer for tonight (after a Fullers IPA) i detected something not quite right about the taste and the smell. The smell was reminiscent of the old calamine lotion that grandma used to dab onto itchy mozzie bites. And the taste was not the best. Tolerable, but not the awesomeness that this beer presented as two weeks ago. I should mention that when we had the gusher 6 pack I had been drinking wine and smoking all day, so my perception was not at it's best.
Bloke at the bottle shop suggested that in the space of a week, it's quite likely both 6 packs were from the same carton, or at the very least, definitely from the same batch run. So how the hell could the same beer taste, smell and gush so badly ? A bottle-borne infection would explain a single gusher, but the whole 6-pack ?