Had a load of ace beers over the weekend. I won't bore you with the details, but I will say that if you get the chance to try Beavertown Spresso then grab it with both hands. Possibly the best beer I've ever had. It's an Imperial Espresso Stout clocking in at 9.5% - not that you can taste the alcohol aside from a comforting rising warmth. Thick as tar, full bodied with bags and bags of blakc espresso and dark (like 90% dark) chocolate bitterness. Huge but impeccably balanced. Absolutely amazing!
Other highlight was popping into the new (and only) craft beer bar in Wolverhampton that's just opened. Owned and run by Slater's from Stafford. There's 10 cask lines and 10 keg. About 60% Slater's, mostly on cask along with the usual suspects from Holdens, Bathams and Sarah Hughes. Very nice selection for that real ale crowd, all about ã3.10 ish per pint. It was the keg lines that I was more interested in really. The most appealing being Cloudwater, Black IPA and Left Handed Giant, USPA.
So good to have beer and breweries of that level available on tap in Wolves! There was a lot of choice on keg actually - seemed a bit scatter-gun however, as if they didn't know what would sell well. An ESB, APA, BIPA, Kreik, Blegian, Wheat, Bock etc. Hopefully they can focus in on a few different styles and offer some more choice from the ace new craft brewers in the country.