Beer Flights 101

What is a beer flight? Essentially 3, 4 or more small glasses of beer (typically a third of a pint or 4/6/8oz depending where you're from) from the draught beer selection available in the pub or bar. This might seem like a lot of messing about with small drinks but, as I've discovered, its a great way to try new beers or some of those beer styles that you have encountered but never tried. After all who wants to be stuck with a pint of a beer that you discover turns out to be pretty nasty or just not your cup of tea (yes you guessed it I'm British!).

Here I am with a typical beer flight - they often come with wooden paddles (easier for serving I guess) - each of these glasses held 4oz (Imperial) which is about a fifth of a pint (114mls).

After a recent holiday in Canada (where there are beer flights everywhere it seems) I came home with the vague plan of seeking out more beer flights and then spreading the word - hence this blog (and twitter @BeerFlights). As beer flights appear not to be that common in the UK this may turn out to be a very short lived venture or, hopefully as I'm a glass half-full sort of guy, a voyage of discovery (they are called flights after all!).

If you have discovered a beer flight in the UK (or anywhere for that matter) please let me know at BeerFlights@outlook.com or on twitter @BeerFlights - hopefully I'll get to try them out on my travels and tell you how it went.

So watch this space for the occassional BeerFlights blog.....

Clive Mitchell, BeerFlights Blogger, 18th July 2015