That rarest of beers: a lager you can take in to the second act of the opera!
You might assume that in craft beer circles, all lager is shunned, but not so.
5/10 This version of Harviestoun's Schiehallion beer, brewed in this case for M&S, is serious, next-level lager.
It is so flavour-packed, in fact, that it may be too much for some lager drinkers.
That said, it's hard to imagine something so scabrous winning the approval of the Mercury judges, whose vision of music that represents Britain appears to be based on viewing Britain as a place where people drink designer beers in chic bars, not cans of lager on sagging sofas.
But, for all that, there is a certain satisfaction in seeing Greene King forced to minimise the presence of its own beers (that IPA, Noble lager) in its own pub, and, undoubtedly, the Grain Store will expose some drinkers to exciting new beers they would otherwise not have encountered.
We shower in the mobile "posh wash" unit, sit on beach chairs, drink lager and clap in the stragglers.
The singer Jason is the most amazing frontperson, he has the terrifying intensity of someone you wouldn't want to talk to in the pub and the laptop guy stands still, drinking a can of lager.
Most people would describe this as closer to an ale than a lager, but if you want to stretch your taste buds a little, crack on.
Traditional pubs were once almost obliterated on Tyneside by the vogue for high-turnover drinking houses with flashing lights, fizzy lager and booming music.
Fosters is the principal draft lager (there are other bottled beers such as Tiger, Sol, Deuchars IPA and Birra Moretti in the fridges sometimes,too), while Bulmers is the cider.
