Drinking from the Wheel of Beery Mystery for #BeerSaturday

There is a pub near us called The Royal Mail - it's a pretty traditional sort of Australian pub which is to say it's not too fancy. The current owner is trying to inject a bit of Craft Beer cred into the place and one of the more fun idea he has is what he likes to call The Wheel of Beery Mystery.

It is a simple as it sounds, there is a wheel on the wall with about 50 beers written on it, you pay the man $8 and spin the wheel, wherever it lands is what you get, from what I can tell there are maybe 5 or so beers which would be a bad deal, 30 beers where $8 is about the right price and 15 or so really good deals, some would be $20-$25 beers so it's worth a spin and it's pretty good fun and a nice way to try some new beers.

So I had a spin, and my wife had a spin and we ended up with two pretty good beers:

First up was Edge Brewing and their Hannibal Red Lager - I've discussed Edge brewing here before, they are a local Melbounrne outfit, actually started in North Melbourne, and a 4 minute walk from the Royal Mail on Spencer street. This is a beer I'd had before, but I was still pretty happy with the wheel on this one, it's a pretty easy drinking malt backed red lager, it toasty and with a little bit of a toffee in the aftertaste.

The Other beer comes from further afield, coming from Stillwater Ales in the US, this was from their cellar Door range, which are more sophisticated classic styles. It was a farmhouse ale with Sage, it has a distinct herbal smell, but really I wasn't getting much from the taste at all. My wife quite liked it, I didn't hate it, but if it wasn't on the wheel of beery mystery I wouldn't have chosen it.

So if you are in Melbourne, drop into the Royal Mail on Spencer Street (maybe before a cricket, football game or concert at Marvel stadium - yep that's right one of our sporting stadium is named after Marvel comics - weird I know)

And if you aren't in Melbourne, well, drink beer and enter #beersaturday organised by Detlev, which you can check out here: https://steemit.com/hive-187719/@detlev/the-sylvester-aka-new-years-eve-beersaturday-in-week-134