Something for the weekend: Bottle Shed Beer Festival!

We decided to check out the Bottle Shed Beer Festival yesterday, it was the first night of this weekend of madness and the first time that we had been since its epic launch in November.[su_row][su_column size="1/2"][/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"]The Bottle Shed has been a great boost to Birmingham’s craft beer scene and blasting their way into 2017 with a bang after their short break with a beer festival is just what everyone needed to get over the January Blues and very a wintery Britain.[/su_column][/su_row]We’ve got to admit, as we were the first time, the Bottle Shed wow’s you from the start, walking through a nice but pretty normal British pub, through a curtain into a Craft Beer Paradise. A innovative bar with taps attached to a drip tray made from a urinal that water runs over every so often, a log fire burning , a line-up of epic retro arcade games designed to entertain you while sip your brew and let's not forget the  shelves and fridges around you bursting at the seams with Craft Beer![su_row][su_column size="1/2"][/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"][/su_column][/su_row]With 16 ales on cask, 6 craft beers on tap and let’s not forget the hundreds of bottles of beer, we knew that this place offered exactly what we needed for our ultimate beer fix!We weren’t fortunate enough to have arrived in time to catch “Meet The Brewer with Rich and Chris from Burning Soul”, but from what we heard it was a good one![su_row][su_column size="1/2"][/su_column] [su_column size="1/2"]We kicked our taste buds into action with something easy… Juicebox IPA from Fourpure which we’d had in a can before, but on tap it’s something else! We then indulged in Equinox from Fixed Wheel, Jaipur from Thornbridge, shortly followed by CF 173 (Fixed Wheel), Hopton (Thornbridge) and were blessed enough to try Difference Engineer from local boys Thousand Trades, all great brews. We also noticed Snake Charmer (which is a truly fabulous brew) from One Mile End which we had on our trip to the brewery back in the Summer. So we were definitely spoilt for choice.[/su_column][/su_row]

You can check out all the brews on here!

So with the weekend here, if you’ve got a spare few hours, we’d definitely recommend checking this one out. With street food and music, it’s not one to miss![su_gmap height="200" address="2 Westley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham. B27 7UH" class="The Dark Horse 145 Alcester Road Moseley Birmingham B13 8JP"]