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I am a Welshblogger are you?

Well if you blog in Wales or about Wales you should be!

David (ie the Cynical Dragon) has set up a new website and community to aggregate and have guest posts from the welsh bloggers it’s called strangely enough welshbloggers.co.uk.

It’s initial aim I believe was to organise friendly meet ups in the guise of “Welsh Bloggers in the Pub”, so a wide range of egos that are the various bloggers can drink (Cardiff first probably) and chat without slagging each other off online.

I am up for the idea of going to the pub, and as long as there are not groups of bloggers in their own political groups sitting at different tables sneering at the other bloggers, as there are a lot of serious welsh bloggers out there, where as I just do it when the trumpet of truth breaks down.

There is a webtypesgroup meeting up already but a general drink group is a winner.

You can following them on twitter & facebook

Mine’s one of these…..

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or one of these

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or one of these

Cheers

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Beer Notes: St George’s Day Beer

I promised the bombardier Beer Lot. who have been running the excellent Champion of England award (that readersheds was a shortlosted for the other month..

That I would drink a Pint of English Beer for St Georges Day, but as their great brew is not that regular in Cardiff..unfortunately the closest I could get was this.

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anyway good cheer and love to my English readers, when it comes down to it, its your shed that matters not where it is….

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Beer Notes: Dragons Den

I meet up with old school mates on Saturday for a pint before the Cardiff Blues v Toulouse game at Cardiff’s millennium stadium, I was not going to the game but as I have not seen them for around a year…  it was a good chance to catch up and have a few pints before they went off to the game, then home.

In fact the weather was so nice I stayed in Cardiff and had a few pints and meet them after the game and ended up at my local a few hours later with one of the boys Rory who was not going home..  but it made me realise  that I can’t handle a all day session anymore…. 🙁 as i was not much use yesterday…

The only downside was that on these match days in Cardiff all the pubs serve their beer in plastic glasses, which does not help the taste in my opinion and this Batemans was the only decent pint and it was not very good at all, plus the megapub Prince of Wales had put the beer prices up. I had to wait until I got home to get a good pint a few Black Sheep

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Anyway as the Mrs says I never get in contact with my mates enough, so will have to make the effort to visit Reading in the summer where three of them live & work of course a few decent pints should be waiting for me.

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Beer Notes:Nice pint of Damson Porter

Went out for a walk with Sprout on Thursday to the Bush Inn, and had a lovely pint of Damson Porter from Burton bridge.

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I have had a it before but looks like they have changed the clip…

Damson Porter

Damson Porter

A.B.V 4.5%
Colour Very dark brown but not black
Nose Fruity
Taste Fruity beer with a distinctive bitter-sweet after palate
Hops Target & Challenger
Malt Pale, Crystal & Chocolate
Sizes Firkin
Availability All year round
Brewed as Burton Dark Porter with the addition of Damson juice to smooth out the bitterness and add a little sweetness

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Cask ale week starts

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So get over to your local and give it a go…

Anyway here’s a Photo of Melanie Sykes at St Pancras sitting on a beer Barrel

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Courtesy of Wells Bombardier

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Beer Notes: Brew Dog – Punk IPA

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Of course this caught my eye due to the punk overtones(or is that undertones!) in the name & label.

I found it to be a bit too bitter but after a few tastes you got used to it and it was lovely and I can see myself quaffing a few of these, plus it was only 99p a bottle in my giant Tesco..

This is what the brewery say about it

A beer of inherent contradiction. This heavy weight of the beer world is strikingly delicate with a white gold appearance. The light fruity aroma dominates the initial confrontation; lychee, kiwi and passionfruit all prevail with subtle nuances of cherry and strawberry.

Don’t be fooled however by this smooth medium bodied ale. As it trickles down your throat as this wolf in sheep’s clothing begins to grow teeth. The bite comes as the bitterness builds and endures no matter how hard the malty sweetness of the alcohol tries to tame this ferocious beast. An exciting beer that will captivate with a whole body drinking experience.

I have heard of BrewDog before (i had their stout somewhere but can’t remember) and they sell the Beer online this one in particular is £12 for a case of 12 a good investment if you can’t get it locally..

Now I wonder if they would give some of this Fine beer away for Shed Week as we now have an official Punk band who Iam sure would love a few pints.

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Thali from last night’s curry club

A few of my friends from work went for a curry and lashings of beer last at a the Gatekeeper in Cardiff, it’s a wetherspoons so we were not expecting top class curry but it’s cheap and normally cheerful.

Anyway James had the same as us, but he was delivered the Thali without any pots and just dumped on the plate, without even an explanation.

What we had (left) what James had (right)

the Beer on the otherhand was fine

but one member of staff was quite rude, even though I have been going there since it opened.

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Beer of the Week – Tudor Brewery Sugarloaf

A small introduction to these posts I have been taking photos of Beer Clips (the Badges on beer pumps) for many years now.. (It’s like train spotting for the inebriated) and even started a Flickr Group with them on.

When it started it was just a record of what I had consumed but now I tend to go out of my way to have a guest ale when I am not in Cardiff, my other local the Otley in Treforest always has a good selection on.

Eight times out of ten the beer is pretty good, the only problem drinking in Cardiff is that the lack of pubs that serve drinkable guest ale, so I tend to go to the love em or hate em wetherspoons, so not withstanding the chavs & babies, they do have free wifi so I can send the clips straight from the bar.

Anyway the beer, this week is Tudor Brewery Sugarloaf

Tudor Brewery Sugarloaf

Brewed by the Tudor Brewery which is in the Kings Arms public house in Abergavenny (which looks a lovely pub and will be on my visiting list If i go to the Food Festival this year)

It was a lovely beer with sweet smell and at at 4.2% abv was an easy session beer

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They say

Sugarloaf is a well rounded full-bodied caramelised beer using local ingredients. Suitable with rare charbroiled steak and fresh hamburger.

So if you can grab a pint then do so…