The Championship
Friday 4 March 2022
SUFC 2021/22 Game #59
We have a Story Beer. Repeat we have a Story Beer. This is not a drill.
Dead Parrot Beer Co. have a beer called Hohhot on Cask at 5.4%. The pumpclip described it as Inner Mongolia Ale. So, that's a new description hey.
I quizzed. The story goes. Yang Zhe (also named on the pumpclip) is a guy from Inner Mongolia (a region of China), who lived for a while in Sheffield & became a friend of the Dead Parrot brewer. Over time, they chatted about beer, China & Inner Mongolia. The claim was … the rest of China drank pale, lager-a-like, tasteless beers under 5% - "might as well be water". Not in Inner Mongolia, oh no, not in Inner Mongolia mate. Proper beer there.
(Apparently) Yang Zhe claimed the Innerites drank a darker, maltier, higher abv ale. Which he said was often likened to "English Beer". So, the Dead Parrots interrogated him about flavours, taste, appearance, etc. And reciped it & brewed it to Yang Zhe's "instructions".
Once they'd put in all the hard yards and got it conditioned & settled & shit, they all sat around with Yang Zhe & piled in.
Yang Zhe (I'm paraphrasing) said - perfect, spot on, just like the beer in my home town Hohhot, thanks guys.
(Here, I'm thinking, well he would fucking say that wouldn't he).
So, there we have it.
Dead Parrot Beer Co, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Ale, brewed by Yang Zhe, on Cask at 5.4% (ie not "water")
It was nice. Sort of an easy drinking English Bitter. Not over malty. Not over bitter. Nice balance & a bit moreish.
First time I'd been in…
Perch Brewhouse
44 Garden St, Sheffield S1 4BJ
The home of Dead Parrot. I'll be honest, it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I'm preloaded to imagine a newer English brewery, in a former industrial area of a Northern Town, to be all about the Keg Beer. But, basically, Perch has a rack of well known, industrial branded, keg beers. And then half a dozen real ale handpulls of their own brews. Great place. Go when you can.
Not gonna lie. I made a right twit of myself. Once we'd sat down, I exited stage left into the yard to see if I could see the Brewing Kit through a window or an open door. A few trestles & benches in the courtyard. And maybe 60 sacks. All full. Grains. Barleys. I don't know, I don't present Countryfile. First sack I came across was Hops. Lovely. I'll have some of that. Hand in. Scoop out. Have a good, deep sniff. Except, it was raining, and all the sacks were open, and the handful of hops were wet through. Indeed, everything in all the sacks was wet through. What? Why? Why would you leave all the agricultural produce needed for brewing open to the elements? To spoil?
Anyway. Chatted to him. His van had broken down. (Me - Shrugging Emoji). Penny dropped. He couldn't dispose of the malt, barley & hops he'd ALREADY FUCKING USED to brew beer. The 60 odd sacks I'd seen were spent. Twit.
Dead Parrot Beer Co, Kato Nwar, Stout on Cask at 4.8%
Kato Nwar. You are familiar with that, right? The national bird of the Seychelles. The Black Parrot (it's a Stout, brewed by Dead Parrot, that's fucking high fives all round).
Dead Parrot Beer Co, Aurornis Xui, Pale Ale on Cask at 4.6%
Aurornis Xui. You are familiar with that, right? Oooohhhh, do fucking tell us Phil. It wouldn't be a fucking parrot parody would it?
In. One. An extinct anchiornithid theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period. Roughly the size of a pheasant from 160 million years ago. And … from fossils … looks a bit like a parrot … SURPRISE.
Best beer of the bunch that one. Lots of flavour. Lots of malt. (Which works very well). Tastes pack full of Hops. And maybe I got some apricot in the fruit. Lovely.
So, I'd have taken nil nil for large swathes of that game. But once Morgan found that cross. And Billy found that space where there was no space. You'd want to hang on. Drat.
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