Yesterday was BEER Day Britain*. Nothing terribly official about this but an easy excuse to have a drink with my brother at our usual lunchtime haunt 'The Sugarloaf' in Cannon Street.
I'd hoped to have another pint of the Dark Star 'Hophead' I'd enjoyed previously, but in its place this time was something called 'Ramble Tamble', from the Triple fff brewery in Hampshire.

The American flag featured on the label gives away the style of the Pale Ale. Using all American hops this is 'a huge hoppy assault on the taste buds' to quote the brewery bumph on this beer - no arguments from me. In fact quite a few of my current favourite beers are IPA's using American hops, Dark Star and Lidl's Hatherwood 'Green Gecko' included.

If you click on http://www.triplefff.com/our-beers you'll discover more about Triple fff and their beer selection. No explanation that I can discover, but with names like Moondance, Dazed and Confused, Pressed Rat & Warthog, Stairway, Smells Like TEAM Spirit and Comfortably Numb, there's clearly something Rock 'n' Roll going on here. Further investigation is a must and underway, so watch this space.   





*I would have posted this blog yesterday but our Sky broadband had gone down. Which wasn't half as nice as the beers going down. Cheers !