Curry Night

Visited Weatherspoons at Staple Hill last night for a curry. Asked for Beef Madras, at the bar, told it was not available. OK. Then I will have the Chicken Tikka. Sorry not available. Can I have the Sweet Potato, spinach and chick pea curry. Yes that was available. Thank you very much. At least I found out what was not available ordering at the bar and not after I had sat down. An improvement on last week performance so perhaps Weatherspoons Staple Hill are getting it together. Tried Severn Vale Brewing Co's Session 3.4% a really nice beer so I stayed on it all night. Steve McDonald proprietor and Head Brewer of the Severn Vale Brewing Co was present so I had a word with him. We had a very interesting but short chat. Apparently their Session beer was created at the specific request of the landlord of the Old Spot also in Dursely. He wanted a low gravity beer with plenty of flavour. In my opinion that was achieved. We will be visiting the Old Spot on Monday with Jim, Richard and John. Steve has promised to turn up for a longer chat. Hope to learn a lot more about his beers. Once again a really nice evening eating, drinking and talking bullocks. Yes Thursdays are good, really good.

The ingredients for the River Dog brew arrived yesterday so today is brew day. It is also Friday 13th. Oh no. DON'T PANIC. DON'T PANIC. I boiled 15 litres of tap water yesterday afternoon. This sterilises the water and gets the chlorine out of it. It has cooled now and will used in today's brew to adjust the gravity. Read tomorrows blog for the results.