Last week I spent a couple of days at Loughborough
University playing in a touch rugby competition. A lot of drinking was done in
the Student Union bar which I was largely dreading as they tend to offer lager
and not much else. Whilst I was initially pleased to spot that they had bottles
of Old Speckled Hen on the go, they were kept in the fridge and were so bloody
cold that they’d taken just about any possible enjoyment out of the beer! It’s
a shame that student bars still stick
to serving terrible drinks despite the rise in popularity of decent beer and
that nothing seems to have changed since my student days. Old Speckled Hen was
brewed by Morland in Oxfordshire until 2000 when the brewer was taken over by
Greene King and production was moved to Suffolk. It’s hard to comment on the
beer here anyway, I’ve had Old Speckled Hen many times before and no that it’s
a solid British ale but I struggled to enjoy this one.
Country: United Kingdom
ABV: 5.2%
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