I should have just filled the car up and driven off. Ignored the calling.
But didn't.
The empty retail space next to the local garage has been filled by
www.german-bier-warehouse.co.uk
I should have just got a few porters, rose bocks and weiss biers and that would have been the end of it.
But it wasn't.
Lurking down the far end of the pristine shop (it opened for the very first time a matter of hours earlier), were "Marathon" and "Anti-aging" bier.
Apologies for the photo quality:
i interpreted this roughly to be a beer imbued with something like liquid oil of ulay, so that whilst getting leathered all the visible signs of that uphill paper round in West Beirut (in winter) disappear and by the end of the 6 bottle session you look not a day older than Aled Jones
and now to the piece de resistance
This is exactly what it says on the bottle - bier plus energy
Again, my perfect grasp of German had this down as a 4.8% refreshing ale with a potent combination of lucozade sport, high5, PSP, Nuun, and viagra in it.
6 bottles of this and you can take your pick of event and medal colour at the 2012 Olympiad.
The drink of winners.
Half way through writing this post the screen went really fuzzy and strange at about the same point as i noticed that the aforementioned rose bock was actually 8% ABV.
As a result of being on my third bottle i cannot legally be held accountable for my interpretation of the ingredients in, or after effects of, the biers listed above.