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Desert Island Beers
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December 25th, 2009Desert Island BeersDesert Island Beers
A while back we posed the question ‘What would your emergency beers be?’, after a night gazing into the beer cupboard and not being able to choose anything to drink. Usually having a wide selection of beers in the house is great, but there are the days when everything is new, or everything is tired and you just don’t have anything in that shouts drink me.
On the days you something need a fall back, a beer that you always rely on, those tried and tested brews that you never tire of and can always, always rely on to satisfy your thirst.
The responses to the Emergency Beer post planted the little seed of this idea, and got us thinking about ‘What beer would you want if all other beers in the world were destroyed’ and ‘What beer would you want if you were Will Smith in that film where no one else is around?’.
Which led to the obvious question, ‘What beer would you take to a desert island?’.
And that’s exactly the question we’ll be asking you, beer lovers of the world, in our new (hopefully regular) feature: Desert Island Beers.
The concept is simple, just like the Radio 4 show we’ve taken inspiration from, we will be asking guests what beers they would take to a desert island. We’re going to ask each guest to select 3 ales they just could not live without. And as we’re generous island chiefs, we’re going to allow our castaways a couple of extras: a meal to go with the beers, one luxury item and a song or record they’d like to keep their spirits up.
Keep your eyes peeled on the desert island, we have some cracking guests lined up including beer writers, brewers, bloggers, beer lovers and perhaps even the odd B(eer)-list celebrity!
Tags: Desert Island Beers
2 responses to “Desert Island Beers” 
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Hi Mark,
David Mayhall from All Gates Brewery here. I was talking to Paul Jeffries the other day over lunch. He and Hydes Brewery are very good friends of our brewery. For some reason we got talking about desert islands and waht beers we would take and books and luxury items etc. I thought it would be good to blog about it and asked his permission which he gave and was about to post and then googled the idea, I was thinking of asking a few other brewers we know and then saw you had beaten me to it!
However I see your last post on this was early 2010. Is it something you are going to pursue, if so I would not do anything similar. But if not I envisage asking about 20 brewer friends for their choice of eight beers with a favourite, a book, a luxury item and a favourite CD.
Let me know your thoughts and if you are pursuing then as said I would noy post anything other than maybe Paul’s ramblings, under another heading
Kind regards
David Mayhall
Director
All Gates Brewery Limited.[Reply]
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Bio: Mark is better known as @fletchthemonkey and started writing about beer in 2009. Mark is editor of Real Ale Reviews and blogs at beeralewhatever.co.uk. When not content with spending all day on the internet working for a digital marketing agency, Mark waxes lyrical at digitalmediamonkey.co.uk and types up match reports for Leeds Guide magazine.
FletchtheMonkey December 25th, 2009 at 15:26