Trying not to see animals

What: Elephant's head (facing right)
Beer: Ale of some kind, not recorded
Receptacle: Magners glass
When: 13 September 2008
Situation: In the Cricketers, with Victoria, Mike & Hannu (reading from Hannu's beer)

A common theme of my beer readings to date had been that I tend to see animals, both in my own and other people's beer. Victoria had become suspicious that this is simply because I'm always thinking about animals and would see them even when they weren't the obvious interpretation of a reading.

But as Mike and Hannu joined us in the Cricketers, I could hardly fail to notice the unmistakeable shape of an elephant's head emerge from his pint! I didn't have my full beer reading kit, but was able to capture the reading on my camera phone. Alas, Victoria remained unconvinced. I suppose in a certain light, facing left it could be the skull of some kind of hadrosaur. But it looks uncontrovertibly like an elephant's head to me. Unfortunately, this wasn't a sign I was going to remember the beers that people were drinking so I could record readings properly.

What: Whale's tail (upright, emerging from ocean)
Beer: Adnams Spindrift
Receptacle: Long thin curvy glass
When: 13 September 2008
Situation: In the Castle, with Victoria, Mike, Hannu, Nina and RQ (reading from, I think, Nina's beer)

Having broken the beer-reading ice in the Cricketers, by the time we'd moved to the Castle and been joined by Nina and RQ everyone wanted to know more about it, and Victoria wanted me to see something that wasn't an animal (though wasn't drinking any beer herself). The next shape I spotted, however, was the tail of a whale emerging from the ocean. This one, admittedly, was more open to alternative interpretations than the elephant's head. It also looks a bit like the Holy Grail.

What: Euro sign?
Beer: Adnams Spindrift

Mike was getting some interesting shapes towards the bottom of his glass, and unless it was a very long snake this probably wasn't an animal. I couldn't quite see what it actually was though. Being a banker, Mike thought he was seeing the Euro symbol, possibly a predictor of a turbulent Monday on the UK and US exchanges.
What: Boot
Beer: I have a suspicion RQ was actually drinking Cider. Adnams Spindrift

This shape emerged in negative from RQ's pint. True to form, I wondered whether it might be some kind of caterpillar or worm, raising its head in the air. "Stop trying to see animals!" implored Victoria. I tried really hard not to see it as an animal, and suddenly realised that I was in fact looking at a boot! You can even see a shoelace or perhaps buckle at the top of the foot. Unfortunately, as I believe RQ was drinking cider, the reading was invalid.

UPDATE: RQ claims he wasn't drinking cider, and this was from another Spindrift. So the boot was a genuine reading. It may have been warning me that I would bang my toe on a large heavy box a few days later, splitting the toenail, and that wearing boots at all times would have been advisable.