December 2023. Sheffield.
The Rutland is a singular pub, whatever that means, celebrating the start of Whamageddon by replacing the lyrics of “L*** C********” with Band Aid.
And giving Sheffield a US keg takeover anchored by their most expensive beer yet.
Just so Beer Twitter can say “How Much !!!” and “You don’t drink it in pints, idiot”.
Hidden next to the Kernel and Luke Skywalker* figurines,
sits that 11% marshmallow stout from Cycle Brewery of St Petersburg (Florida).
Anyone with any sense would resist this, but you know how sense goes out the window after 2 pints of Bass etc etc.
Sense is replaced by curiosity, and besides, it’s just a third shared with Mrs RM, who has very strange views on sharing.
Blimey it was good, like drinking marshmallow treacle. I’m not sure I’d have managed a pint, mind.
A pint or two of those and those mannequins start coming to life,
and that Ladybird book of the zombie apocalypse suddenly makes sense.
* just a guess, never seen any Star Trek movies
retiredmartin 
21 quid a pint?! Good job I don’t like marshmallows.
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I’ll pay £21 to see you drink a pint, Bill.
I’d had a glass of Orange wine of similar strength and price/abv 3 hours earlier (bad idea).
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Keep your money, RM, I’m not going there. Currently finishing off a bottle of Greene King Rocking Rudolph. Bloody awful. I should stick to Tennent’s. Or Staropramen.
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£21 is about what I was paid each week for working at the Hull Brewery 49½ years ago.
Coincidently an old friend of mine from Stoke has been living in St Petersburg (Florida) foir several years after marrying an American woman. .
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Cycle Brewing is just across Tampa Bay, go there periodically. They do all sorts of barrel aged stuff, fortunately not at those prices!
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I think the impressive thing, apart from the beer itself, is that a backstreet Sheffield pub is prepared to take a chance on selling it. Of course, the very price itself can be a selling point, as it were!
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