Pervasive

Spent a lovely weekend down in the New Forest attending a good friend's birthday bash, stayed in Brockenhurst and was quite excited on Saturday to have a couple of hours of down-time and the possibility of visiting one of my favourite breweries of the moment nearby in Hardley. The brewery in question is called Vibrant Forest and seems to be on top form currently, unfortunately though my Wife wasn't as keen to visit as I was, to be honest I can't blame her, we did only have a couple of hours and the prospect of 25 minutes in a hot car verses sitting in a pub garden in Brockenhurst wasn't a balanced equation in anyone's books. Luckily we took a stroll through the village instead and came across a little wine bar called "The Sett" low and behold they stocked a nice little range of Vibrant Forest beers and a few other local offerings to boot (see board above), we sat in the sun and scoffed a wonderful platter of cheese and bread with our beverages, the missus had a couple of glasses of white and I necked a couple of local brews, very nice they were too. I think we've reached a point in the UK now where it's almost possible to get locally sourced craft beer pretty much anywhere, much like cask beer in the 70s and 80s, the craft movement is becoming totally pervasive, onward and upward!