I’ll work through the breweries that I had beers from at the festival and I’ll note now that the beer was free and it was me that chose how much to have, they weren’t short measuring or being tight with pours. Good Chemistry were one of the most engaging of the breweries and they had an interesting selection of keg beers available.
The first beer I went for was the Peach and Love which is their fruited lager that is inevitably going to be compared to Jubel. I’m not really much one for lager, although I prefer it when cut with fruit, but this one was gentle, soft and had a suitable peach flavour to it.
The second was Loose Change, a 3.4% ABV sessionable IPA which had tastes of stonefruit and was suitably light. These lower ABV IPAs seem a very sensible idea for the summer months.
It reminded me to have a look on Untappd about what I’ve had before from the brewery and I’ve had their beers at the Rose, the Artichoke and the Leopard in Norwich, as well as at Norwich Beer Festival. My favoured beer so far from them has been the Smooth Operator, a 6% ABV porter collab that they did with Abbeydale Brewery.
Anyway, they seemed like really nice people and although I didn’t have time on this trip, I note that they have a reopened taproom in Bristol that I’ll have to get around to visiting in the future. They brew cask and keg beers, but, as so often happens, I only tried the keg ones here.