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ROBCamra
05-12-2012, 16:02
Oggwyn Trench: Conquest Black Death
Spinko: Phoenix Wobbly Bob
Mobyduck: Titanic Stout
oldboots: Geeves No1
Bucking Fastard: Magic Rock/Dark Star Rock Star
london calling: Roosters Buckeye
Real Ale Ray: Northumberland Sheep Dog
Aqualung: Magic Rock Dark Arts
Thuck Phat: Oakham Bishops Farewell
Wittenden: Abbeydale Black Lurcher
Pubsignman: JW Lees Manchester Star
ROBCamra: Kelham Island One Step Beyond

Oggwyn Trench
09-12-2012, 12:53
A few good ones this week with several new breweries for me

Stonehenge - Danish Dynamite
Partners - Porter
Partners - Tabatha
Axholme - I.P.A. (isle pale ale)
Conquest - Black Death
Hartshorns - Highgate
Elland - Tash

BOTW Conquest - Black Death

The Partners Tabatha was intresting , brewed similar to a Belgium Triple , easy to drink at a dangerous 6%;):D

Spinko
09-12-2012, 13:17
Phoenix - Wobbly Bob in the Berkeley in Wigan, only £2.50 for a 6% beer :cheers:

Mobyduck
09-12-2012, 17:10
Some better beer this week,
Cottage Tornado
Cottage Somerset and Dorset
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar Belgian IPA (bottled)
Marstons Single Hop Saaz
Thornbridge Wild Swan
Milton Sparta
Loddon Ferrymans Gold
Hopback Cropcircle
Hopback Entire Stout
Wadsworth Bishops Tipple
Kenny Cramps Double Vision Impaired Vision Perry
Youngs Winter Warmer
Titanic Stout
BOTW is Titanic Stout, packed with flavour ,a strong contender for Beer Of The Year.

oldboots
09-12-2012, 17:42
A beer light week due to work, only a cheeky quart on Friday and a Leeds crawl on Saturday

Rudgate Viking
Kirkstall Pale Ale
White Rose White Lightening
Geeves No 1
Nethergate Petersfield Porter (for Nicholsons)
Okells St Nick
Goose Eye Chinook Blonde
Kirkstall Black Band Porter
Acorn 10th Noel

The Petersfield Porter was pretty good but the Geeves No1 was outstanding. Allegedly a brown bitter but certainly not boring.

Bucking Fastard
09-12-2012, 17:43
Not a great week on the beer front,biding my time for the Christmas onslaught.

Without wanting to sound boring, for the second week in a row Magic Rock/Dark Star Rock Star wins BOTW ,inevitably in The George,Croydon.

Does Wolverton have any decent ale ? Does Wolverton have any decent pubs ? That's the mission for next week

london calling
09-12-2012, 19:18
had a lot of good dark beers at the pig,s ear fest this week but last night 3 stood out
twickenham -winter cheer
west berks -dr hextors healer
and the winner was
roosters -buckeye in Ales and Tales. twickenham.

Real Ale Ray
09-12-2012, 20:43
Northumberland - Sheep Dog

Aqualung
09-12-2012, 21:11
A fair list this week mostly in the King William IV in Leyton :-

Magic Rock Curious 3.8%
London Field's Love Not War 4.2%
Burton Bridge Santi Freeze 4.5%
JW Lees Plum Pudding 4.8%
Growler Essex Border 4.8%
Exmoor Exmas 5.0%
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.3%
Magic Rock Great Alphonso 5.6%
Freeminer Deep Shaft 6.0%
Magic Rock Dark Arts 6.0%
Brodie's Mentol Brown 6.5%
Magic Rock Human Cannonball 9.2% (keykeg)
Brodie's Big Mofo Stout 10.5% (keykeg)
Magic Rock Bearded Lady 10.5% (keykeg)
Brodie's Romanov Stout 12.1% (keykeg)

As instructed by AleandHearty I did try the Magic Rock Curious and agree that it's an excellent well hopped pale cooking beer, very similar to a few of the Brodie's regulars. The Great Alphonso was the biggest disappointment as I couldn't detect any Mango flavour at all, and I have brewed my own Mango wine in the past.

Despite the appearance of three of my previous BOTW winners, this week has a very clear winner, due mainly to the high price of the keykeg Magic Rock offerings which gave me the chance to apply the three pint test to Magic Rock Dark Arts. This is a very well hopped black beer, possibly best described as a strong stout. It was in cracking form at the Magic Rock takeover. I have tried it before but don't recall it being as impressive as this.

BOTW Magic Rock Dark Arts

Thuck Phat
10-12-2012, 11:35
Very quiet week with just Wood Farm Rucking Santa, a brewery whose beers I normally like and Oakham Bishops Farewell.
The Rucking Santa was a touch malty for my taste and managed the 1 pint test but not the 3 and had to be followed immediately by BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell.

Wittenden
11-12-2012, 00:23
'absolution, and remission for our sins...'
Marstons-Pedigree:OK , if nothing special.
Abbeydale:Moonshine-Pale 'n' hoppy some citrus, Yorkshire stuff.
Bradfield-Farmers Blonde: pale,maltier and less passionate than before.
Bradfield-Farmers Bitter-hebaceous malt led session bitter.Mid brown, English,hits the spot.
Peak Ales-Bakewell Best Bitter-excellent best bitter.New mown hay,comforting.
Ringwood 4X Porter-Too cold,nothing really special.
Peak Ales-Nogging Filler 5%abv:Dark winter warmer,roasty, earthy.Good.
Abbeydale -Brimstone 3.9%abv:dark roasty bitter with Amarillo hops.Full of flavour for the aBV.
Abbeydale-Absolution 5.1abv. Very pale, but sweeter than the usual Pennine pales.Not cloying. A good bruiser.
Abbeydale-Black Lurcher.7%abv. Wonderful jet black old ale-chocolate,coffee and soul.
Oakwell-Barnsley Bitter.3.8%abv. Good blackberry session brown bitter.
Abbeydale Black Lurcher, my BOTW

Pubsignman
11-12-2012, 15:15
Barely made it down the pub this week, but I did manage to enjoy a nice bottle of JW Lees Manchester Star - a hefty but warming 7%+ porter.

aleandhearty
12-12-2012, 18:31
Unbelievably, another dry week. That's the second in three weeks. :mad:

aleandhearty
12-12-2012, 18:56
The Partners Tabatha was intresting , brewed similar to a Belgium Triple , easy to drink at a dangerous 6%;):D

It's a little unusual isn't it? Having said that, I quite liked it once my palate had adjusted.

Geeky factoid: Its continental taste is probably helped by the fact it's brewed by a Dutchman - Paul Klos. He was one of the founders of Anglo-Dutch Brewery, along with Mike Field (the man responsible for the renovation of the West Riding Refreshment Rooms, in Dewsbury). Anglo-Dutch were bought out and re-named Partners in 2011.

trainman
13-12-2012, 13:03
Unbelievably, another dry week. That's the second in three weeks.
Yep, unbelievable...

ROBCamra
16-12-2012, 19:06
Kelham Island One Step Beyond this week.