Richard Naisby, the bewhiskered brewer at Milton, sent me this little beauty. It's for Back to Black, from Son of Sid. I'll be honest - I quite like it, despite having no idea what it represents. Can anyone shed some light?
Son of Sid is a tiny pub brewery based at The Chequers in Little Gransden, a village in the south of Cambridgeshire. I don't know anything about it, other than what can be gleaned from Quaffale (which shows some scary looking chaps loitering outside the back door).
If you've seen any other "interesting" pumpclips out there, let me know. I'd like to find the strangest in Britain - and celebrate it.
Never trust people who think beer subdivides into "lager", "bitter" and "Guinness".
Never trust people who say they like chain bars because "they always know what they're getting".
Never trust people who list "socialising" as an interest on their CV.
Never trust people who can't give a straightforward answer when you ask them where they're from.
Never trust people who invite you on skiing trips when you have never expressed any interest in the sport (or indeed their company).
Never trust blokes who try and ban the c-word from conversation because their bird doesn't like it (just say it more).
Never trust people who "don't like to lose control".
Finally and most importantly, never, ever trust people who don't drink beer, unless they have a very good excuse - and for the avoidance of doubt, being an uptight, miserable sod is not a very good excuse.
Stonch lives in London, where he runs a pub.
Richard Naisby, the bewhiskered brewer at Milton, sent me this little beauty. It's for Back to Black, from Son of Sid. I'll be honest - I quite like it, despite having no idea what it represents. Can anyone shed some light?
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I think it's a Transvestite tribute to Amy Winehouse
I'm surprised Stonch - I thought you were "down with the kids"? It's obviously a bizarre Winehouse tribute. Perhaps she doesn't have big enough gazongers to register on your cultural radar? ;-)
Whatever it is, it made me laugh out loud. Not sure I'd be tempted to try the beer though...
The pump clip leaves me with the impression that the beer is laced with crack cocaine and heroin. What are the other beers called? My baby Blake is innocent; or This is for London baby!
Keeping with the theme, it could be brewed with ashes from the Hawley Arms!
They had this and another SoS brew ("Camp") at the Pembury for their festival last weekend.
When you see it in the flesh, it's more obvious that it's supposed to be a cross-dressing "tribute" (or parody?) of Ms Winehouse. It made me giggle, and I bought a pint. And you know what? It was excellent. It's a classic deep, smoky porter. One of the tastiest I've had in ages. Highly recommended!
Camp had an odd pump clip as well. It featured the same chap (presumably the titular son of Sid), but this time in a strange phone-pic type pose, open hand under his chin in what I guess could be interpreted as a vaguely "camp" gesture. It almost looked like a candid pic that had been turned to this use, as opposed to something bespoke like Back To Black. After B2B I was game for trying this other brew. It would appear to be a 3.2% bitter, quite heavily flavoured with Camp coffee. Certainly an oddity, but one I'm glad I tried. The chicory / coffee flavours were quite overwhelmingly pungent at first, but once acclimatised it was fairly enjoyable.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for their brews in future.
Incidentally, the Pembury was very busy on Friday night, which was wonderful to see.
I've had a Son of Sid ale - better than most Milton I've had!
I must pay another visit to the Chequers, I assume that the brewery is a recent thing as I remember only excellent Adnams plus guest beer. I haven't been there for a few years as although it's not far for me it's not exactly on the way to anywhere and it's quite far from everywhere. Still it's always been a great pub and well worth the trip. Now who can I persuade to drive me there?
We also had it at the Pembury. Very nice. The kind of novelty pump clip I like.
It looks like Buster Keaton in drag.
thank you nice sharing
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