The strange world of beer
Carryaround to the rescue
You know how it is… You’re at a music festival/ cricket/rugby match and it’s your round. You’ve beaten your way to the bar and ordered six pints of the most thirst quenching beer for you and your friends. But unless you’re one of those German waiters that can carry 15 beer steins without spilling a drop, you’re going to need some help getting these back to your parched pals.
Enter the Carryaround, a reusable, fold-away drinks carrier which enables one person to carry up to eight pints (with one Carryaround in each hand).
Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? But this nifty plastic gadget can open – and lock – into two positions. Open it one way and you have four drinks holders, open it the other and you get three. So even you’re carrying three or four pints, each one is equally balanced. Cool.
Prices start at £7.99, get yours at: www.carryaround.com ‘Real ale’ is 200 years old The fight for cask beer may be older than we thought... Irrepressible beer author and blogger Pete Brown has found something interesting in the Indian National Library, revealing that the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is at least 200 years old.
In 1809, the Calcutta Gazette carried countless ads for beer, but one in particular caught his eye: REAL ALE To be sold by Public Auction, By Williams and Hohler, At their Auction-room, On MONDAY next, the 17th April 1809, ONE Hundred and Forty-three Dozen of excellent REAL ALE, warranted good, the property of an Up-Country Trader, le.....
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By Sally Toms
Section : Beer Matters
Page number : 41
