Stripes and the blue beer

Ian has now finished the main painting on the boat, and has moved on to the coach lining. It comes as a shock to realize how many rolls of masking tape are needed.

 This is what happens when you fall off the ladder while painting stripes!

Once the tape is removed, the boat is looking great.

 

We ran the bar at Bury beer festival again, and all the beers ran out.  Great news as after working the bar for 2 12 hour shifts, it is far easier to carry empty casks out of the place on the Sunday.  The Costa Del Salford and the Decadence were, of course, the first to run out but the Stouts and the Mild also sold very quickly.  People do drink dark beers!

I found some blue children's swimming goggles on ebay for 99p, and we set about confusing some of the customers.  We set up at the end of the bar, and first we tried fitting the goggles to a half glass, then a pint glass, and finally we found the best fit was a commemorative glass we had at the back of the bar.
Next I went over to the supermarket and got a nice piece of Blacksticks blue cheese, and we had a pint of beer, wearing goggles, looking at a piece of cheese. Several pictures later, and we have confused everyone at the bar.

Saturday we set about brewing the next new beer.  The run-off from the mash tun was a sort of golden orange, which we didn't want, however once the wort had been boiled, the special malts we had included turned the beer to a superb red colour

 Lashings of Amarillo hops, half an hour laying out the new clip, and we are away.

 

I can't wait until next week to taste it!