Saturday 22 October 2011

October 20, 2011

343)  Home:  Funnel Blower by Box Steam Brewery of England:  **1/2;  a porter with vanilla flavours - my second vanilla porter of the year and like the first it is very nice; 

The label relates the tale of the largest ship in the world in 1859 suffering an explosion that blew off of one of five funnels.  While lesser ships would have gone to the bottom of the sea the Great Eastern carried on.  The cause was determined to be a build-up of steam.

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