WE'RE featuring the views of Derby beer enthusiasts here each week. Your contributions are welcome.
This week, Nick Campion, from Hilton, who is a writer, sometime motorcycle adventurer, cricketer and family man shares his favourite beers and places to drink them.
A BOTTLED BEER
Badger's Fursty Ferret manages to maintain a distinctive, rewarding flavour that the bottling process squeezes out of so many beers. Its fruity tones add sweet warmth rather than distracting bitterness. An amber ale of surprising full flavour at a drinkable 4.4%.
A DRAUGHT BEER
Dancing Duck Abduction is a dangerously relaxed 5.5% which slips down with barely a hint at its potency.
The three letters I-P-A are pretty irresistible to me but not all are as good as this example, which is full of flavours delivered with a light touch.
A GREAT PUB
The Old Talbot at Hilton. Warm, convivial, welcoming... that's what you need from your village pub. Low, beamed ceilings in the lounge seal in the atmosphere, while you drink one of the regular ales – Landlord, Pedigree, London Pride, Doombar and more – or one of the many guest ales. Dining requirements are met by pork pie, crisps and nuts.
