Mmmm… (Chestnut) Beer
Those nice people at Waitrose are importing two of the Pietra beers from Corsica.
Pietra is a dark long-fermentation beer made with chestnut flour alongside the normal malt and hop mix, while Columba is a white wheat beer with herbal aromas based on the scent of the maquis.
Excellent stuff, and thank goodness for a supermarket that’s willing to experiment.
However, I’m still looking forward to Whole Foods Market opening in London next year. The beer selection in the US stores is superb, and mainly micro-brewed stuff at very good prices. Here’s hoping that they do the same over here.
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on July 10, 2006 on 2:07 pm
> the beer selection in the US stores is superb
Yesh it ish.
on July 10, 2006 on 2:10 pm
Whole Foods Market are definitely a [tick] in the “reasons for living in the US” boxes…
on July 10, 2006 on 2:24 pm
Your Whole Foods Market link is broken.
I wonder whether they’ll be as expensive as Fresh & Wild.
on July 10, 2006 on 2:27 pm
The Waitrose one was too! Fixed them both, ta…
on July 10, 2006 on 2:48 pm
I’ve tried both of those Pietra beers, they’re both very good. I had some of the chestnut beer last night.
on July 10, 2006 on 4:17 pm
Oh yes. Shame there’s so many crosses in the ‘reasons not to’ column.
on July 10, 2006 on 4:18 pm
Oh yes. Shame there’s so many crosses in the ‘reasons not to’ column.
on July 10, 2006 on 4:57 pm
God I loved berkeley Whole Foods market – any chance they’ll expand out of London?