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ROBCamra
25-04-2012, 15:11
Thuck Phat: Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons
Oggwyn Trench: Hobsons Town Crier
Real Ale Ray: Bowland Patriot
Bucking Fastard: Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons
PaulOfHorshaw: Surrey Hills Gilt Complex
Millay: Sadlers Thin Ice
Quinno: Vale brewery St Georges
gillhalfpint: Het Anker Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van De Kaiser 2008
Old Blue: Bath Ales Gem
Wittenden: Old Dairy Hop Top
oldboots: Roosters Leghorn
RogerB: Redemption Big Chief
Pubsignman: Oakham Asylum
Spinko: Everards Sunchaser
aleandhearty: Rat Rat-atouille
Alesonly: Dent Brewery Golden Fleece
ROBCamra: Slightly Foxed Prairie Fox

Spinko
25-04-2012, 18:32
Should be a hefty week this one, with a few in Leeds tomorrow to be followed by Derby and a Birmingham crawl Friday, Swindon Saturday, and London Sunday. The main thing will be remembering them all :D

Spinko
26-04-2012, 21:11
First good one before I forget, Marble-Draft in the Fox and Newt. Went down brilliantly with the piri piri chicken

Thuck Phat
29-04-2012, 10:59
First good one before I forget, Marble-Draft in the Fox and Newt. Went down brilliantly with the piri piri chicken

I don't think I've ever had a beer I didn't like from Marble, I just don't see enough of it. I'm envious.

Not a bad week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Great Oakley Fly the Flag
Hop Back Summer Lightening
Holdens Golden Glow
Jennings Snecklifter
Pedigree
Bass
Leatherbritches Coopers and Bounder
Full Mash Warlord
Beowulf Gold Work
Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons

Some excellent ale in there and one or two new breweries for me. Of note were the Leatherbritches Coopers in The Coopers Arms (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/7045/), Weston, Bass in The Coopers Tavern (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/34227/), Burton and the ever excellent Summer Lightening here (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/62283/). BOTW though was Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons, in The Crown (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/62675/), Beeston, which having tried a number of other ales really stood out as quality.

Oggwyn Trench
29-04-2012, 16:42
Nothing like a promotion to get the ale flowing , bit tender this morning:D

Doctor Mortons - Moose Abuse Juice
Doctor Mortons - Myar Skikt
Maxim - Swedish Blonde
Accorn - God Save the Queen
Hobsons - Town Crier
Stonehouse - Off the Rails
Ironbridge - Citra
Salopian - Shropshire Gold

BOTW Hobsons - Town Crier

Real Ale Ray
29-04-2012, 17:12
Goose Eye - Barm Pot
Northumberland - Best of Britain
BOTW Bowland - Patriot

Bucking Fastard
29-04-2012, 19:41
A very enjoyable few days in Staffordshire and Notts with some great beer in outstanding pubs made this a very good week.Also some tip top Dark Star ales in The Harp which were close to BOTW but the truely outstanding beer was Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons as trailed by Mr P.

Back in Nottingham this coming Friday where The Organ Grinder are having a Blue Monkey beer festival featuring a few of their occasional brews and all the regulars,likely to be dangerous :nishelypished:http://www.bluemonkeybrewery.com/news/organ-grinder-festival-beer-list

Real Ale Ray
29-04-2012, 20:31
Back in Nottingham this coming Friday where The Organ Grinder are having a Blue Monkey beer festival featuring a few of their occasional brews and all the regulars,likely to be dangerous :nishelypished:http://www.bluemonkeybrewery.com/news/organ-grinder-festival-beer-list

Will be in Notts on Sunday, so will have to look into the Organ Grinder - looks like some interesting beers. Thanks for that BF :cheers:

PaulOfHorsham
29-04-2012, 20:32
Also some tip top Dark Star ales in The Harp which were close to BOTW

Mr Fastard prompts me to join the thread....

The Hope's Extreme Beer Fest (http://www.hopecarshalton.co.uk/bfestextreme.html) did pretty much what it said on the tin. Marble Draft and Bristol Brewers United ‘Smoked Porter’ came out tops for me - the latter shading it, but both just pipped by an excellent Dark Star American Pale Ale in the Harp. Better even than that, however, was brewery fresh Gilt Complex (http://www.surreyhills.co.uk/9089.html) from Surrey Hills. This is their summer ale and is highly recommended if you encounter it. There was a mountain biking event in the area yesterday - respect to the riders that I encountered entering Denbies, none of them could conceivably have been any wetter or muddier.

Millay
29-04-2012, 20:39
A close run thing for me this week. The Milkwood Dylan Thomas and Nethergate Old Growler were very good but my BoTW, largely because I drank so much of it, is Sadlers Thin Ice

Quinno
29-04-2012, 21:13
Had a fair few good beers this week, but few (if any) fantastic ones.

After a good session today I'll go for Vale brewery St Georges - a hefty 4.8% copper ale at the Nags; the two I had earlier were in fantastic nick and slipped down easily. Runner-up was West Berks Mr Chubbs Lunchtime at the Foresters earlier :D

gillhalfpint
29-04-2012, 21:53
Het Anker Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van De Kaiser 2008. Beat the Duvel Triple Hop. Good job the 75cl bottle pries were shared.

Old Blue
30-04-2012, 00:38
Having spent most of the week in Dubrovnik, largely drinking the excellent local spirits, my beer list is a tad short this week:

Ozujsko (a Croatian lager)
Karlovacko (a Croatian lager)
Dark Star - Partridge
Twickenham - Four Grains
Bath Ales - Gem

Ozujsko nearly got my vote. But the Bath Ales Gem finally redeemed it for British beer

Wittenden
30-04-2012, 08:19
No pub again this week, but a couple of notable bottles:Fuller Smith and Turner's Double Stout in their Past Masters series-a decent drink, but not as exciting as I'd hoped, and hellish expensive-£3.05.Also, not bottle conditioned. Secondly, Hop Top from Old Dairy, a so-called Double IPA.Very intensively hopped-not sure what varieties.Again, expensive-£1.95 for a "nip".It is sometimes available on cask.On the whole, that will be my BOTW, as I can see myself thinking about it, and drinking it again.Hopefully, at least one pub visit this week.

oldboots
30-04-2012, 08:51
Sadly brought back only as a special for April but showing Roosters is in safe hands, BOTW is Roosters Leghorn

RogerB
30-04-2012, 12:01
4 main contenders this week - the new Black Sheep All Creatures at my local Ivy Leaf, Kent Spring Wheat at my local 'Spoons, By The Horns Bobby on the Wheat (the Wheat seems to be recurring theme here) at the magnificent Southampton Arms and the one to top them all, Redemption Big Chief at the Bull & Last in Dartmouth Park and at £4.50 a pint it bloody well should be BotW!

Pubsignman
30-04-2012, 12:37
Had an unusually high number of dreadful beers this week, but thankfully a few good ones showed themselves over the weekend with Moorhouse Black Cat, Acorn Blonde and Bristol Brewers United Smoked Porter all contenders. But BOTW goes to Oakham Asylum - a new Oakham beer for me and a good addition to their range.

Spinko
30-04-2012, 12:38
I don't think I've ever had a beer I didn't like from Marble, I just don't see enough of it. I'm envious.

Not a bad week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Great Oakley Fly the Flag
Hop Back Summer Lightening
Holdens Golden Glow
Jennings Snecklifter
Pedigree
Bass
Leatherbritches Coopers and Bounder
Full Mash Warlord
Beowulf Gold Work
Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons

Some excellent ale in there and one or two new breweries for me. Of note were the Leatherbritches Coopers in The Coopers Arms (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/7045/), Weston, Bass in The Coopers Tavern (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/34227/), Burton and the ever excellent Summer Lightening here (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/62283/). BOTW though was Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons, in The Crown (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/62675/), Beeston, which having tried a number of other ales really stood out as quality.

Their Ginger was a touch astringent but yes I agree they really do have a good batch going on.

Additions, if I remember them, follow.

Everards - Sunchaser
erm....I had several others but nowt otherwise memorable so I will have to go with the Everards-Sunchaserd which 4 of us all enjoyed in the Square Peg in Birmingham.

Spinko
30-04-2012, 12:40
There was a Thornbridge-Kipling and a Magic Rock-High Wire in York too but not memorable enough.

aleandhearty
30-04-2012, 14:05
A decent week for me, with some excellent beers on my preferred Sunday afternoon crawl of The Hop, Harry's Bar, Bull & Fairhouse and the Fernandes Tap. The Tap had a mini festival over the weekend featuring 20 of its own beers, some of which were outstanding. Tried this week:

Mallinsons - Eye Pea Ay.
Rat - Rat-atouille.
Titanic - Stout.
Acorn - God Save The Queen.
Abbeydale - Absolution.
Cropton - Yorkshire Moors.
Town House - Barney's Stout.
Fernandes - Light Mild.
Fernandes - Columbus.
Fernandes - Octohop.
Fernandes - Two Brewers.
Fernandes - Ne(ale)ly.
Fernandes - Pecker's Park Bench.

Honorable mentions for the Columbus and Pecker's Park Bench (dangerously drinkable for 7.4%), but the Rat-atouille, made with Citra hops was on superb form, at The Hop.

oldboots
30-04-2012, 20:37
4 main contenders this week - the new Black Sheep All Creatures at my local Ivy Leaf, ................

how odd, six of us had All Creatures at the Old Bell in Harrogate last month and we all thought it was awful, although only one bloke took it back. Maybe the later batches are less astringent?

Alesonly
01-05-2012, 12:07
Only a few Ales last week due to working so I will go for the best of the three listed below.

Oakleaf Brewery May Bee Mild
Elgoods Black Dog
Dent Brewery Golden Fleece

And that was The Dent Brewery Goldern Fleece Nice refershing light Pint.

ROBCamra
04-05-2012, 10:26
Last week I thought I would have loads of good beers to choose from as it was Oldham Beer Festival, but to be honest all the beer was pretty average and nothing stood out.

So it's back to The Baum for the BOTW. Slightly Foxed Prairie Fox an American IPA, very tasty. :cheers: