When the support act steals a show...

Last week, I went for a drink after work. I met a friend and we went to the Craft Beer Co. in Farringdon to see what beers they had on. I had seen something that day about them having Dark Star's Revelation. Now, this was a well-conceived beer. The brewery had won the hearts of British beer fans in the early '00s with the American Pale Ale. What we had here was to be a kind of APA (Director's Cut).

For me, however, Revelation was not the star of the show. It was an excellent beer, make no mistake: It was the exact taste I had been looking for when I arrived that night. There was freshly cut grass in the distance, behind a wall of turquoise citrus - that american-style festival of hop that so many of us this side of the pond have come to know and love.

The only problem was that another beer had taken me by surprise.