Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a famous engineer in the West Country. Famous for the Great Western railway, Clifton Suspension bridge, the first and largest steel ship, the SS Great Britain (1843) which currently resides in Bristol docks as floating museum and many other notable engineering feats (there is plenty on Wikipedia).
The local Butcombe brewery, on the outskirts of Bristol, has launched an IPA beer named after Brunel. This beer is a copper/bronze in colour and has a sharper, tangier taste than the popular Butcombe bitter (which is in my backlog of reviews). The beer describes itself as a classic hoppy IPA, dry/bitter sweet (whatever that means) and tawny chestnut brown. The 200 on the front of the bottle is to commemorate Brunel’s 200th birthday which was back in 2006 when this beer was originally released. Picked this beer up at the local farm shop for £2.39, another decent drop and the only one left amongst a few others I have never heard off – will have to go back and check those out. Hard to compare against beers in Oz, but this one did remind a bit of an Old Admiral at the Lord Nelson (at least the colour was similar …… but they probably all are).
back of the ferry 
