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DESTINATION: Surrey, England
BEER: Hog’s Back Traditional English Ale Rating: NNNN
Surrey is home to England’s largest vineyard – in Dorking, no less – but your LCBO tour of Europe is best accompanied by beer, especially this one. Hog’s Back delivers oodles of malt and hop flavour with low alcohol, soft effervescence and eminently drinkable, light texture. Tongham is only 22 kilometres from Reading.
FOOD: A Melton Mowbray pie, which would be a fine pairing with this ale, can only come from Melton Mowbray, so you won’t get one at a Surrey gastro pub. Maybe you could relive your trip to France and order some snails. Gastropods in a gastro pub!
PRICE: 500 ml/$3.95
AVAILABILITY: At selected liquor stores (product #157560)
