The 2nd Strong Island Ale – Dry Dock No. 1
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
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Tweets that mention RIP | Strong Island | Portsmouth & Southsea -- Topsy.com on October 1st, 2010Distressingly accurate that.
Gareth on October 1st, 2010Awesome and terrible at the same time. I’d buy this in T-shirt form regardless as long as it gets our damn dinosaur back.
Seriously fuming about this, it’s always the knuckle-dragging idiots that bring our city down.
Kyle Bunkin on October 1st, 2010Tee’s that’s a great idea to get some ££££
claire sambrook on October 1st, 2010More than happy for the design to be used for a good cause like that!
Stu Linfield on October 1st, 2010Get in there with the Ts – put me down for one
AndWhyNot on October 1st, 2010Me too!
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Ultrasauros-Community/130032950382866?ref=ts
A local design company called Shuffle Groop have started this up. I’m trying to throw as much weight as possible behind it, and have emailed The News with regards to what is going on with it…and also what has been said on here. Reckon we need to try and remedy this!
Gareth on October 1st, 2010stuart do it!!!!!!
mydogsighs on October 1st, 2010or mail me the jpeg and i’ll upload it to the t-shirt print site i use. not much profit from the site but happy to donate it to charity
I’ll have one for sure.
claire sambrook on October 1st, 2010Hmmmmm, not sure how I feel about that to be honest.
Tristan Savage on October 1st, 2010i know what you mean tristan. maybe a slight adaptation with a green background, no fire, a smiling dinosaur and “welcome back to portsmouth” might be appropriate? especially for some kind of fundrasing effort.
i am really keen to get something off the ground if the artists and aspex are up for it….
Gareth on October 1st, 2010First impression to me is that it’s glorifying the pricks that did this. Why does everyone blame local youths, I reckon it’s probably been done by P.E. Students????
Jim on October 1st, 2010I’d like it more if it said: “We want revenge”
R.I.P. on October 2nd, 2010It was a very spur of the moment design I did in about 10 minutes, I can see that it may apear to be glorifying the attack. It was VERY quickly put together to sum up my initial feelings towards the event. Will have a play around with it in the morning when Iam less drunk.
Stu Linfield on October 2nd, 2010Sadly, there is more indignation about this than about the cyclist who became extinct on the road at Clarence Pier a few weeks ago… for the want of a clean green safe seafront cycle route……
Hilary Reed on October 2nd, 2010If it turns out to be a students that did this would the wording be changed to “Students not welcome”??
Kate Brady on October 2nd, 2010Like the design, dislike the slogan….
Gareth Colwell for Mayor! Or at least councillor…… You have my vote G-man….
Pudding Snack! on October 2nd, 2010This is sad times for Southsea! But maybe this would be a chance to remember the Dino in a good way and not a stupid waste of money! But Arson is a crime the thugs should do time!!!
Love Southsea on October 2nd, 2010A couple of variations on the design for those that didn’t like the slogan:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartart/
Stu Linfield on October 2nd, 2010They are great Stuart, really like them!
Gareth on October 4th, 2010