Worked behind the bar on Friday and Saturday from opening to about 3pm. The best way to do a festival - you get in for free and can sample any beers you wish, and they give you a voucher for lunch (from whatever business is providing food).
Meeting with an old friend for the first time in a year I was surprised to be reminded that he does not enjoy the US fruity hops in pale ale, which have become my first choice in beer. So I decided to widen my drinking at this event. Sampled 12 different beers, including some straightforward bitters and some of the stouts and porters available. My favourite bitter? Probably Three Acre Best Bitter from Uckfield, you could taste the malt and the bitterness was well matched by a little sweetness. The Titanic First Class bitter was also very good - good to know they can do a great bitter as well as their standout Plum Porter (not available at this festival though).
Apart from the beers I was drawn to some of the t-shirts worn by our customers. My favourite was a pint of dark ale partially obscuring lyrics from a Simon and Garfunkel song:- 'Hello darkness my old friend'. Bringing together Simon and Garfunkel with dark beer seems good to me, a fan of both, but I'm not certain S&G would appreciate the dark ale.
Rather harder hitting was a strong political t-shirt featuring the one time Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher. Famous for denying the existence of 'society' - " there are only individuals and families" - and thus normalising greed and selfishness. The now dead Thatcher was shown as a partially decomposed head recognisable by the stiff Thatcher hairstyle above naked eye sockets and rotted mouth. The caption started above this image - 'There is no such thing as' and below it - 'Thatcher'. Fair comment.
Finally a classically themed t-shirt, two lines of Latin (perhaps) being "semper in excretia, solum profundum variat", each line had, in smaller print, beneath it, a handy translation: Always in the shit, only the depth varies.
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