I Can't Believe We've Been in Here For Seven and a Half Hours!

Sometimes things just don't go to plan, and so it was with our 5th meeting at the Poet and Hack on Friday 14th August.

All seem normal to begin with and the OFs convened at around 7:30pm.  Pizzas were promptly ordered and the delivery by the Dominoes man on the bucking moped, awaited.    

Meanwhile the real/craft ale appreciation started with the guest range of Thornbridge Brewery beers namely:
Wild Raven - a strong black IPA
Chiron - a golden hoppy/ fruity ale
Tzara - a hybrid beer which couldn't decide whether it was an ale or a lager.

So far so good (except perhaps the Thornbridge beers were all a bit on the strongish side).

Pizzas duly arrived and seemed bigger than normal with one or two OFs struggling to finish theirs.  It was concluded that perhaps the smaller size had been ordered at the last pub shed night!

Then a 'bonus beer' arrived with one of the OFs (well 9 pints of it in a mini cask actually) for everyone to sample.  The beer was Pooley's Golden from the WeighBridge Brewhouse in Swindon and the OF's thoroughly enjoyed the unexpected additional pint.

This being the first Poet & Hack meeting since the famed Wee Dram Tour the OFs had a thoroughly good reminisce courtesy of a photographic slideshow of the event.

So the evening rapidly wore on and by the time the OFs were seated on the park bench with brown paper bags at the ready it was nearly midnight.  Undaunted by the late hour the OFs pressed on with the Brown Paper Bag Challenge and a fine array of beers were furtively produced and sampled.  

Liberated from their concealing brown paper packaging these turned out to be:
St Austell - Proper Job
Piddle Brewery - Silent Slasher
Badger (yes Badger!) - Blandford Flyer (did I mention that this is a Badger beer?)
Goddard Brewery - Ale of Wight

As normal home time (and bed time) slid away there was still one more event to derail the normal evening schedule.  The unveiling and tasting of the Whisky Castle single cask whisky which made its first appearance since flying back from the Wee Dram Tour. 

  

So good was this dram that the OFs found that another was necessary before abandoning uneaten pizzas and wending their way home through the wee early hours to bed.

To this day the OFs cannot really understand how the, normally restrained, 4 hour meeting turned into seven (and a half) hours - but there are plenty of clues above.

The 'Untitled' title for the night?  Well there were many contenders for such an unusual evening, but this is a good as any...

'I had to sneak this out of the wardrobe tonight...'

Which, on the face of it, might give you cause to worry about the fashion sense of at least one of the OFs!

Time gentlemen please - it's 3am!!