With the temperature outside right now nudging 30 Degrees Celsius and the air so thick and heavy you feel the only thing missing is the sight of camels lumbering past you searching for water there’s perhaps never been a better time to name my After Work Friday! beer.
Black Isle Brewery located in the stunningly beautiful Scottish highlands near Inverness has a very clear message about its range of naturally made beers – ‘Save the Planet, Drink Organic’. Seems a perfectly reasonable bit of advice to me.
Browsing this little-known Scottish brewery’s website I was tickled at some of the comments from brewery founder and Marketing Director David Gladwin, especially his take on the ‘rustic’ image of some organic beers.
”The labelling and packaging is deliberately contemporary and styled to, in some small way, help dispel the sometime commonly held notion that ‘organics’ is all about slightly cranky, no-knickered, tepee dwellers living off brown rice and lentils” he writes on his site. Nice one David!
The beer itself is the first Black Isle beer to make its way into the Systembolaget and is available in the ordinary assortment at least until the spring of 2012. It’s a golden ale at 5.6% ABV that is said to be packed with floral hops (although yet again a brewery doesn’t quite go all the way and tell us which ones).
However they do tell us the beer ”is full of vitamin B and good for you”. I’m not sure if the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs would put their name to that claim but I’ll go as far as to say that a glass or two of this beer shared with good friends after a long and hot working week is a great way to slip into the weekend.
On a serious note though do remember that if you’re planning to drink beer this weekend drink plenty of water in-between and keep yourselves cool. Drinking any type of alcohol while dehydrated may contribute to heat exhaustion and other heat stress related problems.
So as the Aussies used to say back in the 80s Slip, Slop, Slap (and Pop open a nice cool beer too while you’re at it!)
Have a great weekend everyone.
Cheers and beers!
Darren
