Sounds good, but I don't about the beer in the beef pie??? I like my beer in a nice cold glass. I went to the UK years ago now and as I remembered if you wanted a cold beer you had to ask for it because they drank their beer warm back then.
You had to ASK for a cold beer!? You need to drink else where I'd say!
The beer was added to the pie for extra flavouring, but for drinking it is ALWAYS drank ice cold (at least, in my area).