Beer Radar for TWTW Friday 22nd March 2013
By John Krüger
I’m always impressed with the determination some people have to obtain decent beers. A mate of mine, Sam Petering, is also a talented cheese maker and part time barman at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Thebarton. Sam’s a fellow beer lover and home brewer and we’ve known each other long enough to know which beers really ring each other’s bells. I’ve just got off the phone from him after his return from USA. He’s spent three weeks travelling around the ‘States drinking beer like a fury. “My suitcase was overweight by about 10lbs at every airport,” he said. “I started buying all these awesome beers, especially in Portland and Denver. My suitcase was stuffed with bottles of amazing beers.” Sam decided to start throwing away unessentials like all toiletries to lighten his bag and then buying replacements in the next city. After about three cities he had to leave the majority of the beers at a relatives place in Chicago after he found out the Yanks won’t let him post any booze home. Anyone have some tips on how to get his stash home? Otherwise it’ll be over two years until he can get back to drink them.
To make things worse, he was just to cook a feed of lentils for dinner.
“Lentils? Bloody hell mate, are you broke after the trip?” I asked.
“Nah, I need to lose some weight. I’ve put on all this weight because all I’ve had for three weeks is Barley Wine, burgers and barbeque.”
It’s nice to hear a non-family man can still have a decent time out there in the world. Bring me back a beer t-shirt next time Sam.
BEER ALERT: Little Creatures new small batch beer is called Shepherd’s Delight and it’s a ripper. It’s a Red IPA, 6.4%abv and 50IBU’s. Loads of hop and malt complexity but so silky from golden oats. Stone fruit and citrus from the hops. A beautiful long finish. Get it while you can.
