Booze: Dragon Hall Beer Festival – The Aftermath

By -

So, the past weekend saw Dragon Hall Beer Festival 2 and it was a massive success. We had pretty much the whole crew of volunteers back plus some new additions which was great. We’re a great team.

We had about 30 cask ales and bottled beers from Norfolk as well as 4 kegged beers and 9 bottled beers from Ghent in Belgium.

Basically, if you missed it you’re an absolute fool.

My two favourite beers of the weekend:

Van Steenberge Gulden Draak 9000 Quadrupel – A wonderful example of a quadruple. 10.5% but definitely doesn’t taste it. Got nice caramel and malty aromas. Flavours are caramel, bananas & custard, light yeast and spice.

Norwich Bear Platinum Blonde – A premium bitter. Pours a lovely golden orange colour with a bubbly off-white head. Biscuity malt aromas with some citrus. Tastes citrusy (possibly lemon) with that same buscuity malt flavour. Definitely my favourite cask ale of the weekend. See Dawn’s impression of me here: https://twitter.com/#!/NateDawg27/status/199945284355244032/photo/1/large

Ole Slewfoot Dragon Saison – A cask saison brewed in Norfolk. Smells and tastes pretty much the same. Like diluted lemon juice with a spicy, yeasty finish. Great stuff.

The food was great too – all provided by The Belgian Monk. I find myself craving more bitterballen. They’re amazing little pieces of lamb in a nice creamy breadcrumb coating. And wild boar sausages, why do we not see more of these around?

Sadly I cannot personally comment on the music as I was on the Belgian bar downstairs but read the following quote from Mr Jennings (Sadly we don’t know who this is, which doesn’t help):

“A well rounded musical act played on the Sunday afternoon session, performing their own brand of traditional folk music. Unfortunately the two acoustic guitars where somewhat drowned out by the violin and accordion but the latter two instruments provided vibrant, haunting melodies that wouldn’t have been out of place in a royal medieval court. Their presence was warmly welcomed and was a great addition to the steady flow of fine ales.”

All in all, it was a great weekend. I met some great new people and saw some awesome old friends. I’m really looking forward to next year!

The next big beer event in Norwich is City of Ale which I will be blogging about soon...

Nate
http://www.twitter.com/NateDawg27

Comments

  1. Anonymous11 May 2012 at 02:28

    So you would recommend it then... cool!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Beats: Album of the Month – August

By -
Image
If you follow me on twitter or read my ramblings on this here blog, you would’ve seen that I did a Beer of the Month post. It was a difficult decision to make. You may also notice if you follow me on twitter that I listen to A LOT of different music; I think I got something like 30 new albums in August alone which is ridiculous. You’d think with that much new music, picking an album of the month would be difficult, right? Wrong. This was a simple choice. So, which band wins the almighty honour of Booze, Beats & Bites’ first ever album of the month? The award goes to…
Read more

Lidl Currywurst - A Review

By -
Image
Ah, Currywurst! A Berlin institution and indeed, if you've been to Berlin and didn't eat Currywurst whilst you were there, I'm not sure we can be friends. My first Currywurst was on my first ever trip to Berlin in August 2016 where I stumbled upon a stall at the Street Theatre Festival on Alexanderplatz; I grabbed a cheap €3 plate as well as a beer and sat in the warm sun, and fell in love. Later on that trip I visited the Currywurst museum (yes, such a thing exists) and although a novelty, I feel it was possibly the wurst (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) eleven euros I've ever spent. The premise of Currywurst, for those who don't know, is simple: It's effectively sliced boiled and fried sausage coated in a sweet curry ketchup and topped with curry powder; you'll usually find it served with chips and mayonnaise on nearly every street corner in Berlin. I'd seen the famous CurryKing brand of microwavable Currywurst in supermarkets in Germany but never did I e
Read more

Beats: God Seed – I Begin review

By -
Image
God Seed was created by Norwegian black metal legends Gaahl and King Ov Hell when they left Gorgoroth in 2009. Whilst they were with Gorgoroth, they played hundreds of sold out shows culminating in their absolutely fucking massive, legendary performance at Wacken 2008. I am proud to say that I was there and it was absolutely fucking mindblowing. Everything you think of black metal was true. Fire, darkness and pentagrams. Fucking yes. I’ve always been a massive black metal fan. None of my friends were ever really that into it but I’ve loved it. It’s a genre that has always rattled cages, scared people and even made headline news. It’s just so dark and disgusting. I’ve been excited about this album for a while but y’know, I really have to be in the right mood for Black Metal. Today, this is the case.
Read more