Tuesday 5 July 2016

freeze the moment...

I think the most middle-class moment of my life happened over the weekend.  I'll admit that there is probably some pretty stiff competition for this particular accolade, but I do think that this just about tops the lot.

You be the judge.

On Saturday afternoon, I was at the West Bridgford food & drink festival, it was a lovely sunny day and I was wearing my new, handcrafted lederhosen trousers and enjoying a pint of Brewdog Dead Pony Club pale ale, served from a mobile bar in the back of a horsebox called "Heston". As I enjoyed my beer, I sat in a small tent watching a demonstration by Nottingham hipster coffee experts, 200 Degrees.  They were showing how different the same coffee can taste when prepared in different ways: in a aeropress and in a chemex.  Each time, the guy carefully weighed out a measure of ground coffee and added hot water from a kettle with a really long spout, apparently designed to let you moisten the coffee filter just so... and to put in a weighed quantity of water too, before carefully timing how long the coffee steeped in the water before serving.  The chemex coffee had a powerfully clean taste of hot water before the hit of coffee, which apparently some people like.  For myself, I much preferred the taste of the coffee from the aeropress.

I took another sip of my pint and considered....and that's when it hit me: this was the most middle-class moment in my life.

...to date.

There's time to top that yet, if I really put my mind to it. That bar can surely be raised even higher.  It might be tough (the craft beer, the coffee...the lederhosen, for goodness sake....), but it's good to have a goal in your life, isn't it?

9 comments:

  1. Yes, sorry ST, I think this is more of a hipster-type scenario. We still love you.

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  2. I think it's the lederhosen that nudge it over the edge.

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  4. And, I've been meaning to ask, you were not by any chance in Twickenham a couple of weeks back were you? A bloke ran past me on the high street and he looked just like you, dead tall and everything.

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  5. Dammit. I knew it was the lederhosen that might tip it over! When I was writing this up, I almost forgot I was wearing them! It was a nice pint too, btw Dan! No running in twickenham, I'm afraid!

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  6. I think if I got a scooter, that would be even more hipster. I'm just saying, Dan.....

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  8. I'm not getting one, but Dan has just got one. It's a bit harsh to call the man a tool, to be honest, wouldn't you say?

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  9. I was just making an observation of the differences in language & word usage. ;-)

    As for my hipster cred, I do have a full, bushy beard, thick black plastic frames on my eyeglasses, a haircut that could be described as "hipsterish", and I ride a scooter. Although the scooter is a Piaggio BV350, which has more of a motorcycle look about it. Had I been able to get my first choice, a Vespa GTS300 Sport in matte grey, then yes, it'd be very hipster.

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