Welsh Magic

I've made a point of having the best quality drinks possible in my pub and I've always enjoyed a good beer, I was ecstatic when two boys came to me with their idea of building a brewery at Morlaix in the Breton desert which became 'Coreff', but my drinking's been in public, the beer was the key to savouring the ambiance; I've never been in a home sitution where I can play some music or switch on the television or radio, make myself comfortable, put on my slippers, slowly & methodically pour out a beer, raising the glass containg the magic potion to my lips savouring it for what it is, tasting and appreciating the ensemble of ingredients, mainly hops & malted barley that the alchemist has successfully mixed together,  until relatively recently. Three or four times a year my friend of long standing, Gareth Westacott from Tredegar, gets off the ferry in Roscoff and heads for Liliane Madec's home in Kemper, he's developing a pleasing habit of calling in on the way down with a selection of Welsh artisanal beers, and that's what happened this morning. I had the pleasant surprise of waking up to see Gareth & Liliane standing there; they've just left but not before leaving behind 'Felinfoel Double Dragon', 'Tomos Watkin's Cwrw Hâf, and 'Cwrw Gwlêdd - Bragdy Conwy. Now I can look forward to the new year, not in dance or feast, but with some of the best beers that Cymru has to offer, consciously and deliberately savouring their respective seemingly magical blends.