Putting the Hop into Hopen Source
August 7th, 2007If you’ll excuse the quite appalling title to this post (though you really shouldn’t, it’s an offence to any person’s sensibilities), beer makes the code go round. Open source software is driven by it, to the point where free software conferences are timed to line up with beer festivals.
This intro is really just a poor excuse to set the scene for the rest of this post, a review of Black Isle Brewery’s Red Kite Ale. It’s not so much a review as telling you that I’ve just drunk a bottle of this and it’s nice. You might have got a more in depth review if I’d done the wine tasting gargle and spit type sampling but that would have been wasteful.
Instead I’ll tell you that Red Kite is a very pleasant real ale made with organic hops, giving the catchy strap line “Save The Planet – Drink Organic”. Save the planet, drink beer! Who knew it would be that easy! Plus I’ve just written some PHP code that works, thus vindicating my appalling introduction to this post.
I bought my Red Kite from Real Foods but I bought my first Black Isle beers from their stall at the Edinburgh Farmer’s Market (which we haven’t been to for ages) up at Castle Terrace.
I think that counts as a review. Night!
