Although it was tempting to try Bitter and Twisted - my mood on arrival having been let down by a cab firm - I instead paid tribute to the late, great Tony Molyneux, a founder member of Merseyside Camra and a former Cains pub tour guide, who died last summer.
The commemorative beer 1-4 Moly was produced by Liverpool brewery Wapping, which is based at the Baltic Fleet pub. And as the festival programme states: "Tony is greatly missed, but do not mourn. Rather, raise a glass in his memory as he would have wished us to do."
I Can't Remember, I can just about recall, was seriously good (and seriously strong at 6.8%) -so my thanks to the Triple fff Brewing Company of Hampshire. I think. And also to the Abbeydale Brewers of Sheffield for the deliciously sinful (6.66%!) Black Mass.
One of the delights of the festival is sampling the strangelynamed brews, so there was no way I was going to miss out on Great Cockup Porter, from the Hesket Newmarket Brewery in Cumbria although, sadly, Bearly Literate from the Beartown Brewery of Congleton (Bearly Literate. Beartown. Geddit? Oh, please yourselves) wasn't available until today.
But perhaps it's worth pointing out, in this apparent age of the binge drinker, that Camra is a responsible organisation dedicated to improving the quality of beer, rather than promoting the quantity of booze consumed.
The Liverpool Beer Festival, meanwhile, is one of the hottest - and tastiest - tickets in town. And if you have a ticket for one of the next three days, you should count yourselves very lucky indeed.
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