Mout & Mocca

So I haven't posted for ages, work has been getting on top of me and plus I have recently got engaged. Now being engaged mostly means that my other half does lots of stuff but I also get dragged into the wedding planning.

This all hasn't stopped my drinking and the blog lies a long way behind the actual beer count, I broke through the 100 mark this week. The plan is to try and put up one post a day looking back at the beers I have drunk.

Now this beer from the De Molen brewery, a Dutch brewery, Is a coffee flavoured imperial stout coming in at a hefty 11.6%. I enjoyed this beer in the company of my mother who was up visiting for the weekend. My mother shares a strange connection to the Post Office Vaults, she is a season ticket holder at the mighty Bath rugby club and she has made good friends with the person she sits next to. From a complete fluke the son of my mother's friend, Toby, is now a barman at the POV.

This meant that rather than meet my mother in Baccus, where she likes to wait after getting off the train, she could go to the POV and not feel too strange to be the only wine drinking woman in the place.

Anyway on a Sunday we had been to the excellent Pure Bar and Kitchen for lunch and then made our way to the POV for a few more drinks. I had quite a few, which I will detail later, and ended with this. I hated it. Firstly I don't like stouts, secondly I don't like coffee. This beer basically embodied everything I don't like. It is the first and so far only beer in the lists haven't finished. I can understand why people would like it. It's thick, syrupy, with a very strong flavour. Unfortunately it's the opposite end of the beer spectrum to my taste. 1 out of 5