CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Hawkwind on tap

A pint of Hawkwind, please....

This is one disk you don't want to insert into a CD player - it's a "pump clip," otherwise an ID on a beer handle in a bar.

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Ed's Beer Site - the blog where "a man with far too much interest in beer gets to write about it." He writes:

Whilst perusing the unexciting range of beer being offered at the next 'Spoons festivalone made me do a double take and then raise not one but two eyebrows. It seems Elgood's are doing a beer called Hawkwind. 

I shouldn't have been surprised though. As Hawkwind are near universally accepted as the greatest band the world has ever known the real surprise is why it's taken so long to have a beer named after them. It does leave me with a terrible dilemma though: do I have to go to the 'Spoons festival now? Normally my answer to such questions would be you shouldn't do that, but a beer called Hawkwind does tempt me. Who knows, it could be the right stuff!

Elgood's Brewery is based in Cambridgeshire, UK.