Picture the Cook Saddle Bar and Grill. Saloon style bar, County music playing. I look around, and can't see a stetson, but it wouldn't look out of place.
"Hi, what can I get for you folks?"
"I'd like a Monteith's Celtic Red if you have it on tap. "
"Oh, we don't have it because they don't make it any more, but we just mix the Original with the Black, and it tastes kinda the same.."
"I'll have the Original please."
Some time later....
ReplyDelete"I'll have the Celtic Red please"
It was delicious. :-)
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ReplyDeleteWhoops - my earlier post deleted because I now learn it contained some info that is not yet really intended to become public. Suffice it to say it was promising news and it had to do with planning permission and a brewery, and bats and newts (the latter nothing to do with the recipe).
ReplyDeleteBeer is such a nice thing is it not. Is it served chilled down there? How does it stay in the glasses, upside down and all that? (I suppose the answer is that it doesn't.)
Enjoy.
The title of the post made me wonder if "Beer in Fox" was some sort of NZ delicacy named along the lines of Toad-in-the-Hole. Possibly a beer-battered fox? Or a fox-skin beerskin? Or, like colonial lamb, a complete misnomer, and actually half a radish garnished with diced pickled newt (I've ventured into surrealism a little, I feel).
ReplyDeleteThen I a) remembered the Fox Glacier exists, so a town called Fox would seem apposite and b) read the post. That cleared it up. I'm glad to see someone I'm claiming as a potential long-lost relation is doing well in the pub trade down there!