Afternoon all.

Nice to know there are others here enjoy a finely crafted ale whether fruity or dark. Looking forward to the festive ales!
And Jonnieb, think a guest ale should be in place in your emporium

@TMC - their website has them in Somerton but maybe that's just an office address not the actual brewery site.

Wicksman cranking up the munching.

And for me, hoping to pass my first 100 days worth of RT today for the team, 22 hours to go.

All this talk of real ales has reminded me of one of the oddest ullage reports given to Theakstons brewery. ' Beer damaged by low flying Lancaster'. The brewery rep had been at the Ladybower Inn which is at the dam end of the Ladybower reservoir whilst the Battle of Britain Flight flew low over reservoir, the vibrations from the flight caused a kilderkin of Theakstons Best to fall from the stillion.

Apart from the waste of ale, nice story.

Do you think the return of haggistheoriginal is linked to the recent ale talk?

And the team has gone storming past the 600million point mark too

Hmm, haggis might imply scottish, so maybe a pint of heavy or a pint of wee heavy is the drink of choice. 1 Or maybe Buckfast Tonic Wine ('Bucky') (15% ABV) 2

1 A Pint of Heavy http://theeducatedburgher.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/pint-of-heavy-please.html
2 Controversy in Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine

Is anyone else seeing rather large numbers of HCC GPU betas coming in? I've had roughly 100 in the last hour, quite possibly more. Some are even completing.