Although I love Speyside and Highland whisky flavours, I just can’t get on with that TCP/medicinal/peaty quality in the West Coast of Scotland and island whisky’s. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with them, they just don’t meet my taste buds in beautiful synergy. The Paradox Ardbeg/Islay cask versions I simply can’t get anywhere near my mouth as the aroma is so unattractive to me.
Purely personal taste.
The P2 stout I had at the forever memorable St George’s Cemetary bottle tasting during the kick out at London Drinker a couple of years back and I have a real fondness for it.
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He’s not posted anything else in response to my comment so perhaps he has cheered up a bit and decided to let this fade away. But I have to say I do find the "rant then ignore any comeback" approach that you see on the web fairly frequently a touch irritating. But it is his blog and his soapbox I suppose.
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Having read his (IMO) unfactual rantings I can only assume that he’s in the pocket of the multinationals up to his armpits... I mean, museum brewed him a beer (aaaaah, how nice of them) and he claims to like Artois Bock, one of the crappiest fluids I’ve had the mispleasure to drink. Anyone who says this, despite claiming to be untainted by big brewers, deserves no respect as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve been to Museum twice as I used to know a landlord who made his own beer there, plus I’ve drunk in the bar a LOT of times, so I think I know what used to happen there... and now, what comes out? White Shield and the odd batch of something more interesting. Oh, and his IPA they did for him...
Plus, I’ve never heard of him before...
And as for the numpty saying about tickers "A lot of misinformed, narrow-minded geeks who share a hive mind which hovers around the single-digits in shared intelligence. There’s room for ’em, but if we ignore ’em they might go away" - well, there’s nothing like a bit of well-written and factually informed comment. Twat.
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I started to read it, then realised he was just trolling for a response rather than saying anything constructive so I backed off. I did scroll down to read Chris’ response, which was - as always - calm, factual and accurate.
Pete Brown is a damn funny writer. I found his A Man Walks Into A Pub a great read - something a bit different to the normally over serious beer books. He’s not a researcher, and he’s a not really a beer person. He’s a writer who likes beer. And that’s great.
I think he’s over-reacted to our little forum, and he doesn’t quite "get" the issue - after all: beer is beer, isn’t it? I seem to remember from the book that his beer of choice is pale lager - Carlsberg I think. Speaks volumes does that.
I’m sure he’ll get over the shock of not quite understanding why some of us regret the way the Museum brewery has gone.
As for White Shield itself? On a recent blind taste it didn’t stand up very well. Difficult to know in retrospect if my earlier appreciations were due to better quality brewing before Coors took over or if I was drinking in the romance of the White Shield name.
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Nah, it’s just not as good as it used to be.
But how dare you argue with a member of the "British guild of beer writers" - they are the word! They know everything! Their entry qualifications are soooooo strict.... 
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I considered joining about a year ago when I fancied becoming a beer writer. Yes - it’s easy to get in!
I’m now too wrapped up in Wikipedia to find time to do the self-promotion needed. I did try to get myself a column on What’s Brewing after a chance remark at Chris’ place in which I said it was easy to get published in there. I didn’t just want an article I wanted a regular column. Get very close. Got an agreement to do a monthly home brewing column a few months ago, but then enthusiasm fizzled out on both sides!
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