Apply Some Pressure, You Lose Some Pressure (Drop). Pressure Drop Tap Takeover at The Blue Moon.

I love The Blue Moon and their tap takeovers, even more than I love Maximo Park puns! The Blue Moon is one of my favourite pubs, and it will get its own blog post soon. On the first Thursday of every month, the pub hosts a tap takeover. This month, Pressure Drop showcased their beers.

I had a taste of the pineapple sour, but it wasn’t for me. I don’t like pineapple in anything and I find sours hit and miss. I therefore opted for a half of Super Lite. I actually quite like, light lager as a style. They’re refreshing and great style to start a sesh on. Super Lite was a pretty good example of this style. I stayed on the lager theme, and had a Fair Weather Friend, a citra infused pilsner. This was my beer of the evening! A really refreshing, yet dry tasting beer. The citra gives your taste buds a good kick! It was at this point, I realised that I had errored. I should have had the Ja before the citra pils. I couldn’t get a good feel of the 3.2% session IPA (don’t get me started on that phrase), my mouth was still full of citra. Ja became a palate cleanser, to get me ready for this:

Easily beer name of the day (ooooooooh Vienna!). This Means Nothing looked quite light for a Vienna Lager. To be honest it lacked the creamy caramel taste, which makes me love this style.

There was one more beer to try, and the tap takeover was completed!

A dry and chocolate stout, to finish the tap takeover. This wasn’t the end of the evening though.

Siren klaxon! You should know by now how much I love Siren Craft! This pint, in the Alex, was so good, I had to stay for another! But then I fancied another dark beer….

Oh how the beer gods have blessed me! I love Moor! This stout was also worth having a couple of pints of! A great way to end the evening!

Cheers for reading!

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