Mutton Chops
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Now that you mention it we have had a couple bad kegs of abotts come in at our local. Take one sip and you know something isn't right. So they just send the keg back full of **** beer.
The 'real ales' tend to be quite sensitive over here travelling short distances so a trip down under, well, you'll be lucky to get it close to the intended article (kegs that is) but for the record Greene King do struggle to produce ales that taste of anything anyway.
And to the previous poster mentioning the many bland ales about, that is an unfortunate side effect of one major factor being the escalating beer duty calculated on ABV, a lot of breweries have reduced alcohol in their beers to maintain profit margin without increasing price and in one instance, a local brewery has mentioned government pressure to reduce ABV in one of their higher strength beers, because that's what the alcos and kids are drinking apparently (sure they are...)
Sub 4% beers are becoming the norm here on tap and while you can find some very nice ales out and about, there's just not enough flavour for my own personal taste (hopping the **** out of it doesn't help either *cough* Wild Swan *cough*)