The Beast
The Exmoor Beast is a dark ale so named, I believe, for the hangover it gives you the next day. The hangover, like a beast, is aggressive, violent and eats away at you until you feel like a corpse. I had one pint of this ale in The Hope & Anchor in Islington and paid a massive price for it the next day. Granted I also had a few other drinks that evening but I know my drink to hangover ratio and some strange new variable had just been added to this formula as the punishment did not fit the crime.
The Exmoor Beast is actually quite a nice drink. It’s a dark ale which I generally don’t like but as I drunk through my pint I grew to like it. It’s all coffee and rum tasting I guess. But it is worth a try although I’d approach with extreme caution.
It was drunk as part of a weekend that included a night out on Friday with a couple of friends. Those guys departed at around 10:30 as they have kids and a bit of sense. I stayed out with my gf trying to figure out where we could make a night of it. I was going for the R&B club across the road (average age: 18) and she wanted to down the road to a cool bar called Slim Jim’s. We ended having a couple of drinks whilst trying to decide and before we knew it we’d decided that McDonald’s was the best option and we were off ordering an assortment of burger options.
The next day was tough. We had to visit a friend who had just had a baby. With my shaking hands from The Beast’s work, I was clearly in no safe state to handle a baby and avoided this task much to the relief of the new parents. After getting through this I had enough bravery to tick off a final beer from the list as a wind down drink to the weekend.
The beer was Pilsner Urquell, a Czech beer. I’ve had this beer before in Prague and it’s great. I’ve had it on tap in London and it’s great. In bottles over here it’s ok. Or maybe I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind after the day I’d had. Anyway it was another one down. The flowers surrounding the bottle were bought for my girlfriend as she’d just got a new job convincing people to work at a bookmakers. This replaces her old job of convincing people to work at a pension company so I think she’s got a more fun job to look forward to. Oh and the weird owl thing came from a phase I went through of buying her owl stuff after watching Twin Peaks.
