Friday night should have been a surprise as Jon had decided to take Helen away for the weekend, and I had planned to take Beth out for the night, only to meet up in the same place! However come 7pm Helen had already sussed what was going on, but Beth still got the surprise as we bumped into each other in the bar/restaurant. Zero Degrees is a Micro Brewery which brews it's own beer... more on that later!
We sat down for a meal and got the full treatment as Jon's mate who manages the restaurant had written his name as Lord J. Pratt on the reservations list! We had a lovely meal with the boys tucking into any leftovers. Back downstairs we continued to sample the brews before being taken on a behind the scenes tour of three million pounds worth of brewing equipment. The finished beers were excellent, the partially brewed stuff interesting and the handful of malt I was encouraged to eat crunchy! Basically all the beer gets made upstairs and then flows straight to the pumps... it doesn't even get near a barrel or bottle!
After closing we went back to Helen and Jon's hotel and sat in the cocktail bar, which was kinda posh and had some posh prices to match! A fantastic night was spoilt by a fantastic headache in the morning..... (bad pints ... Partially brewed beer etc!)
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