Cambridge Beer Festival, Jesus Green

Last week we visited the Cambridge Beer Festival, the 3rd biggest beer festival in the UK where over 35000 people drank over 90000 pints of real ale, cider and mead. It's altogether an incredible collection of local brewers with a myriad of unique brews, and a testament to how much the British love their drink.

Coming from Australia where the beers are generally quite light, I'm still getting used to the whole obsession with heavy, low-fizz, strongly-flavoured British ales. However, the beers at the festival were definitely tastier and more interesting than the regular sometimes muddy-water stuff you get off the tap in the pubs around Cambridge.

Some of the more interestingly-named beers we tried included Golden Pippin, Beijing Black, and my favourite: "Comrade Bill Bartram's Egalitarian Anti-Imperialist Soviet Stout". Trust the Russians... well, they produce bird-eating pelicans and all, so nothing surprises me now...

Except this:

I have only one acronym for this. It begins with a W and ends with "TF".

Yes, it's an egg, wrapped in "meat", coated in batter and fried. Oh my damn... apparently they call it a scotch egg, and it is a common picnic food in the UK.
Mind you, I did eat it all. Well I guess you should always be open minded when trying new foods! And at the beer festival, the glass is always more than half full. Cheers everyone!

Beer festival tip: Buy half pints. 1) You get more. 2) You try more types. 3) You win.