After Heineken we had a few hours to kill. We popped to see our friend Glenn and had a good catch up with him. Then we headed over to Beer Nouveau – no football on today so safe to go round. We missed the last homebrew club meeting so figured Steve might be able to tell us what our mystery ingredient for this years ‘Will it Brew’ competition is. Grits he thinks. We caught up on other things happening in his world and arrangements for the Temperance Street Party and Homebrew expo.
One of our favourite places for an after work chill is Ol Brewery Bar which is in a new shipping container complex on Oxford Road between MMU and UoM. Dave the brewer is a great chap and the two lads that work behind the bar are friendly and knowledgeable and we generally like the atmosphere. They usually have an excellent selection of beers for Pen. We had booked onto their ‘Meet a brewer’ evening which featured two fab chaps from a Croatian brewey called Nova Runda (next round) who had brought 5 of their beers with them. All very hoppy American style beers. They filled us in on what the beer scene is like in their country, info about their brewery etc and Pen of course got to sample all the beers too 🙂 We spent some time chatting to some of the other attendees too including a lovely couple who are into food and beer pairing.
Pic coming as soon as I can get dropbox to accept a photo from my phone……