Decided at 2:30 am that I needed a beer. I have a few 500 ml cans of John Smith’s Extra Smooth Bitter chilling in the fridge, bought because they’re especially cheap in ALDI this week. These cans have a widget in them meaning the brew has to be decanted into a drinking vessel. Being 500 ml cans, it needs to be a sizeable vessel.
I’d also bought a few cans of SapporoPremium at ALDI a few months back & taken the tops off with the can-opoener jigger on my trusty Swiss Army knife. This makes them into nice big drinking buckets of 650 ml capacity, ideal for the job.
The Sapporo itself is an inoffensive & boring tasting brew of 5% ABV, by the way. Drinkable but not exciting.
The John Smith's Bitter is just that, a very bitter medium strength (3.6% ABV) brew with heaps of malty flavours & oddly smooth, considering the maltiness & buitterness.
Just as the Sapporo is a great refresher in summer, the John Smith’s strikes me as well suited to cooler weather. I like it a lot.