Long time no see blog.
I should of course have updated this blog more and more really, writing is a great passion of mine but ill give some explanation(s) of why i haven't been posting recently.
I have left my job at the Euston Tap, that should really read: left approximatly 4 months ago, because i now do not even live anywhere near London. I am now based in Liverpool, studying English and Irish Studies. I live in quite a nice stuent area around penny lane. Liverpool is a great city and with 500,000 students it caters easily for young brash 19 year olds like myself.
I have now given up bar work and have made quite a u-turn in terms of work. I now work at Liverpool University Officer Training Corps. It meanders halfway between a society and a job. Unlike other societies you are paid to come in every tuesday night to learn basic soldiering skills such as fieldcraft, use of different weapons systems and army life. You are also requred to attend some training weekends that occur every other weekend. It is run by the territorial army and is one of the best things ive doen for a long while. It keeps me active and some of the socials have become quite messy to say the least; the police were called after out play fighting got out of hand, leading to us being refused entry at some of liverpools more desirable places.
I have not given up on ideas for the blog, i unfortunatly just do not get the time to put them down in writing. Liverpool is not as advanced in it's craft beer evolutionary status, and is looked down on by our cousins down the road in Manchester. Brewdog haven't even announced plans for a bar in Liverpool (which i find rather offensive). But that aside, there are many great pubs (and some not so good). Highlights include the Ship and Mitre on Dale Street (just off the queensway tunnel merseyside entrance), a quite samll and cosy place called Bier and my favourite; The Dispensary on Renshaw Street which is ideal for me as it just 5 minutes from the Univeristy Cmapus and excellent for a well deserved pint after trying to get through 2,500 words on the idea of the underworld in the Odyssey.
But whenever i return to London i like to sample the new places that have cropped up and whether they are actually any good. The most exciting of these is Brewdog Camden. This is a bar which i really like, yet i have mixed feelings about. The first thing to say is that it is a beautifully designed bar, Brewdog dispensers stand like guardsmen on parade dispensing beautiful draft beers from all over the world one time i was there i tries Lagunitas IPA ; a grapefuity and citrusy lipsmacker of a beer that was deceptively easy drinking. The problem was illustrated with a ttrip to both the Euston Tap and Craft Beer co. A distinct lack of British beers, but Brewdog assure us that they will be stocking darkstar, Magic Rock and Thornbridge beers soon among others; although there will still be no cask (which is a shame).
But this will hopefully be the start of a new life for this blog, i will have more time to blog soon after my exams finish. Oh yeah and i broke my toe.
Cheers
