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Now for most people (including myself), mention Pretty Things Beer and Ale and you get, “yes, please”. But there is another reason why I REALLY want a bottle of this new beer. It has my birth date on it!
Plus it has noted beer historian Ron Pattinson’s name on it and then throw in the fact that it is a mild which is an oft ignored but often great beer style and I am completely sold.
One of my gifts from Christmas 2011 was an “extra” beer allowance of $20 a month. And I have promised to chronicle what I have bought and then I will come back and add tasting notes when (if), I drink them. Some might go into my expanding beer cellar.
So this month I got two beers with my twenty. With a little to roll over into February!
Pretty Things has been sending more and more beer out to the west coast. At first, all I could find was the Jack D’Or saison but now we have Hedgerow Bitter, Field Mouse Farewell and last night I had the Our Finest Regards barleywine. All distinctively Pretty in character. And so when I saw the Sylvan Stout at Whole Foods, I decided to spend on that. But what would the second beer be?
I decided that I wanted to try a Belgian ale. So I went to the middle Rochefort that was available and grabbed the 8. I usually do not buy these beers because they are pricy for the size and I can get a variety of quality Belgians on tap at Lucky Baldwin’s here in L.A. if the mood strikes. But now, maybe, I will pick up 6 and 10 and the Bruin as well over the next few months.