Let's be serious, now. (Piddle in the Hole)

Member Name: The Operator

Product:	Piddle in the Hole
Date:	26/08/01 (118 review reads)
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Piddle in the Hole. Ha ha ha. That's funny - beer/Piddle juxtaposition. Fancy. Using humour to sell a beer, too. Who'd have thought, eh? There's also a funny, albeit anatomically unusual, picture on the bottle (the subject appears to be sitting on a perpendicular seat).

The rhyme on the bottle goes:

"Upton Snodsbury,
Peopleton and Crowle,
Wyre Piddle,
North Piddle
and Piddle in the Hole"

but there is little clue as to what Piddle in the Hole is. Is it really a village as the label suggests (these are meant to be the only villages where until now, this beer has been available)? The picture indicates otherwise. Someone from Worcestershire please put me right as I'm too damn lazy to look it up. I think it's a joke, in which case, <chuckle>.

Anyway, this is a new one on me. I only spotted it a few days ago in Morrison's and it's not been there before. I know these things - I check regularly.

Biggest thing first. I think this is one of the only beers I've drunk recently that has actually got better the longer you leave it. When you first pour it, it's fizzy. Really tingly as though it's been carbonated and this kind of spoils one's appreciation. It kills the flavour and I do hope it's a natural phenomenon. You can still just taste it though. Quite dry but not too bitter. Hoppy and fairly full bodied but not at all heavy. I'm not Jilly Goolden so I can't tell you whether it has top notes of pampas grass left in damp earth or that it ends with suggestions of cheese wrapped in bullrush leaves from dykes in the Vendee but leave it for half an hour and the flavours really mellow and you can really smell the alcohol. ABV? 4% - not too strong.
Leave some beers for any length of time and they flatten out horribly but this just keeps on developing. For a bottled beer, it really does have hand drawn qualities. I didn't go overboard on it b
ut it's certainly worth a try and is a good recommendation for other beers in the range.

For the bearded and fuller figured, fuggle hops are used and these are grown on a farm owned by the bottlers and distributors, the Aston Manor Brewery, in Herefordshire. There is also a bottle conditioned version available which comes in slightly stronger at 4.6%.

That should sort you out.

A bit of a P.S.
I've had to wait a bit to see this category appear - also, I've been away for a bit and as I wrote most of this before the category was posted, I've had the chance to do some extended research. It was very, very hot today and I drove back to Kent from NE Norfolk during the early afternoon. There was a bottle of this on the dresser so it went straight in the 'fridge when I got home. It's just gone midnight and I've just finished it. It has been the perfect antidote to global warming and it's lovely ice-cold.

Oh, I almost forgot. It appears on your till receipt as "Piddle Ale".

I thought it looked funny.

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