Caterpillar with bobble hat and leaping goat

What: A caterpillar, wearing a bobble hat
Beer: Elgood's Black Dog
Receptacle: Straight-sided glass
When: 11 September 2008
Situation: Third official Beer Reading Meeting, Live and Let Live pub, Cambridge.

It was not until the third pint of the third meeting that I obtained any real result, as the shape of a caterpillar unmistakenly emerged in negative from the thick foam of Elgood's Black Dog. My first pint (Dent Bitter) briefly suggested a dog playing the guitar, but by the time it was recorded the dog had realised that it couldn't actually hold a guitar in its paws, let alone play it, and let go. And then stopped looking anything like a dog. Lizzy thought she saw a mermaid in my second (Checkmate Pilsner), but if it is a mermaid, it seems to only have one arm and no head.



What: Leaping Goat? Sea turtle?
Beer: Nethergate Umbel Ale

Early on in his first foray into beer reading, Tom definitely got some kind of animal, with a big eye and wide open mouth. Looking at the beer at the time, we interpreted this as a leaping goat. Looking at the picture again now, it seems to have legs protruding from both sides of its torso and I wonder whether it might actually be a swimming turtle.

After the beer reading, whether as a result of mixing bitter, pilsner and Black Dog or from the random concoction I'd thrown together for dinner from whatever was left in the fridge before coming out, I slept badly, suffering from indigestion. So a negative caterpillar with a bobble hat seems to be a bad sign.