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Quick halves of cask ale
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April 1st, 2010Beer EventsI wouldn’t normally nip as far as North Bar for a quick half in Leeds, not when the Grove, Cross Keys, Commercial and Midnight Bell are all realistically crawl-able. It’s cask ale week though and North had acquired two beers that don’t normally frequent West Yorkshire bars – Crown Brewery’s Stannington Stout and Tawny from the team at Marble on the dark side of the Pennine’s.
Swift half pints of cask ale (not that this picture was either of last nights tipples, I missed that opportunity!)
It’s Stuart Ross’s Stannington Stout was the dark one of the pair though, a jet black mocha-fest of chocolate and coffee with an aroma to die for and so dark that opaque doesn’t do it justice. Marble’s Tawny – a one-off cask I’m told, although I’ve heard a few people have tried it from a cask in other years – was far more aromatic than the bottle I had been underwhelmed by a few months ago. Piney hops make this a brown bitter deserving of it’s name and earns it a pedestal above subtler beers purely on impact.
Two half pints (and now two half-pint-sized beer reviews ) later, the real world called and unfortunately I had to leave North Bar. Well, I grabbed another half of Tawny seen as it’s a one-off. Mmm mmm. I’ll be back later today though as they have Duchesse de Bourgogne (which I adore) on draught. And I’m hoping that the Cross Keys has Marble Pint this weekend (the ‘coming soon’ board has been tempting me with it for a week or so!). Cask Ale Week will be wrapped up with a couple of local beers at the Grove before Leeds’ crunch match against Swindon on Saurday (fingers crossed.)
All in all, a pretty good beer week!
Tags: cask ale, cask ale week, Commercial, cross keys, north bar, The Grove
2 responses to “Quick halves of cask ale” 
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And here I am, stuck in the office for the resy of the afternoon with nowt but the prospect of being dragged out to some poncey restaurant for one of my wife’s colleagues’ 40th birthday bash tongiht. And not the sort of restaurant that has a beer list, either…
Enjoy the Pint if it comes on. Damn fine, er, pint, that one. Damn fine. (Quote)
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April 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 am@Darren T, Hope you didn’t suffer too much Darren, I wouldn’t read the next post if I were you…
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Darren T April 1st, 2010 at 15:12