Welcome to the Grown-up Travel Guide 2015 Beer Diary!
A little background info: in December a group of us decided to set up the 2014 Beer Advent Calendar, whereby we would try a new beer each day up until Christmas. We shared our tipples on Facebook and Instagram and a great time was had by all – plus we all got to learn about some fine brews from around the world.
Faced with a sense of emptiness when the challenge was over I decided that 24 days a year was just not enough. Why not a year of beer? And so here we are. I reckon a beer a day can keep the doctor away – but even if not it’ll be fun, right?
Given that a large proportion of the year 2015 will be spent in foreign climes there will be the added element of finding a new brew wherever we travel and there are a huge number of excellent beers available here in Norway too – most of which I doubt any of our readers will have heard of.
Your participation is not only encouraged but required – just use the hashtag #grownupbeerdiary if possible. Add your entries here and/or use our social media channels – whatever works best for you.
To keep it simple follow the same format as we do here: describe your day in a maximum of five sentences, add some info about the beer and a photo or two.
Obscure ales and imports IPAs are always interesting but there’s to be no snobbery here – anything goes, even alcohol-free as we all need a good alternative now and again. We’ll work out the practicalities as we go – but since the first day of the year is nearly over we better get started on this journey around the world – in beer form. Cheers!
Day 137: May 17, 2015
Diary entry:
Time to leave the UK and return home – but not before a good breakfast.
Checked out, collected the car from the car park I found (major bargain – details coming on the blog) and we set off for Heathrow.
Stuck the GoPro on the bonnet and got some great footage of central London in beautiful weather.
Was a convoluted journey home with no less than three flights – changing at Stavanger and Oslo – but all went smoothly.
Back to driving on the wrong side of the road again as we returned home…
The Beer:
Name: American Oak Pale Ale
Producer: Innis & Gunn of Edinburgh, Scotland
Alcohol content: 4.4 %
Bottle size: 330 ml
Purchased from: Local supermarket
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This was a strange one. At first I enjoyed the whisky taste from the maturing process over Bourbon- infused wood, but after a while it got to be a little too overpowering and took over the flavour entirely. Interesting, but not really my thing – it seems almost too far removed from beer for my liking.
