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HOLY ****! I simply cannot believe that I forgot to complain about this.
I was in The Healesville Hotel on the weekend. Walked in and eyeballed the taps from the doorway. My usual practice is to do a quick pass to see how bad the damage is rather than checking for good stuff. Boags was the worst of the bunch. So I decide to go in there instead of The Grand down the street. I look more closely this time and see a laminated Mikkeller logo sticky-taped to the font. Okay, I know what I'm having then.
I ask "What's the Mikkeller you've got on?"
Barkeep's reply "It's Mikkeller IPA."
"Which one?"
He helpfully says "IPA is a hoppy style - the thing about this one is the hoppy smell comes through in the flavour which you don't usually get."
"Which IPA is it? They make several." says the quickly becoming impatient prick wearing my shirt.
"It is the best IPA in the world."
"...I'll have a pint of that then. Thanks." [furrowed brow, daggers]
He builds SWMBO's drink then pours mine and comes back and says "The sommelier ordered it but he finished up here during the week and I only put the keg on today. I think we've got the name of it written down somewhere if you'd like." ****, just say that in the first place.
Anyway, it was Green Gold. It smelled classic West Coast fruity and tasted smoother classic West Coast resiny. Really nice beer.
I was in The Healesville Hotel on the weekend. Walked in and eyeballed the taps from the doorway. My usual practice is to do a quick pass to see how bad the damage is rather than checking for good stuff. Boags was the worst of the bunch. So I decide to go in there instead of The Grand down the street. I look more closely this time and see a laminated Mikkeller logo sticky-taped to the font. Okay, I know what I'm having then.
I ask "What's the Mikkeller you've got on?"
Barkeep's reply "It's Mikkeller IPA."
"Which one?"
He helpfully says "IPA is a hoppy style - the thing about this one is the hoppy smell comes through in the flavour which you don't usually get."
"Which IPA is it? They make several." says the quickly becoming impatient prick wearing my shirt.
"It is the best IPA in the world."
"...I'll have a pint of that then. Thanks." [furrowed brow, daggers]
He builds SWMBO's drink then pours mine and comes back and says "The sommelier ordered it but he finished up here during the week and I only put the keg on today. I think we've got the name of it written down somewhere if you'd like." ****, just say that in the first place.
Anyway, it was Green Gold. It smelled classic West Coast fruity and tasted smoother classic West Coast resiny. Really nice beer.