When it comes to bottled ales, I normally stick to cask conditioned but my son got me this for Father's Day and I immediately grabbed a bottle and headed outside with a pile of strong cheese. Why? Because I'm familiar with Broadside as a sturdy 4.7% ABV tipple and this mf is a powerful 6.
Even the usual Broadside packs a punch: coming out of the pumps, it's probably my favourite among cask ales that are widely available. I'd love to see this baby in a hand-pull: even out of a bottle its rich raisin-y textures came through and zazzed my head as I sat in the back garden on an unusually hot day in the grim north of England.
I was reading Hemingway, who I believe said once that drinking from a bottle was fine but when you open a new one you know you've got a problem. But he was talking about whiskey so I figure however much of a wallop this ale delivers, I ain't gonna go the way of Hemingway. Just yet anyway.
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