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ROBCamra
11-12-2012, 11:11
london calling: Brupond Ain'cho Mums Porter
hondo: Williams Brothers Caesar Augustus
Spinko: Blackjack First Deal
Oggwyn Trench: St Austell Trelawney
Aqualung: Howling Hops American Amber Ale
Mobyduck: Darkstar Hophead
Bucking Fastard: Mordue Howay in a Manger
oldboots: Nethergate Umbel Magna Porter
Wittenden: Thornbridge Jaipur
Thuck Phat: Oakham Bishops Farewell
Pubsignman: Westerham 1965 Special Bitter Ale
ROBCamra: Pin-Up Milk Stout

Spinko
15-12-2012, 08:47
Mostly Heineken in the snooker club last night due to horribly busy pubs in Manc city centre..be right back..

london calling
15-12-2012, 20:12
mostly good beers this week few duds
arbor /raw-coconut porter
london fields -shoreditch triangle ipa
mighty oak -bingle jelles
tiny rebel -chocaholic
were the best of them but the best was a new brewery from London
brupond -ain,cho mums porter- a great chillie porter not something i though i would ever say about a chillie beer.

hondo
15-12-2012, 21:07
Williams brothers - caesar augustus

Spinko
16-12-2012, 07:54
Blackjack - First Deal

Enjoyed a couple of these in the slightly surreal Gaslamp. Gaslamp (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/73019/)

Oggwyn Trench
16-12-2012, 11:54
Poor week for me this week :( with only a couple of pre-match pints in the Charles Darwin

St Austell - Trelawney
Marstons - Kohatu

BOTW St Austell - Trelawney

Aqualung
16-12-2012, 12:55
There are no Spoons beers at all this week, what was I thinking!

Brodie's Mild 3.6%
Magic Rock Rapture 4.6%
Brodie's Galaxy Pale 5.0%
Howling Hops American Amber Ale 5.0%
Skinner's Jingle Knockers 5.5%
East London Brewing Quadrant Oatmeal Stout 5.8%
Dark Star Rock Star 6.0%
Brodie's Mentol Brown 6.5%

To be honest I could happily nominate any of the above apart from the Skinner's one.
I will therefore go for the new kids on the block at the Cock in Hackney. I was told that the American Amber was 5% not the 5.5% shown on the clip.

BOTW Howling Hops American Amber Ale

Mobyduck
16-12-2012, 18:06
Very much a boring brown beer week this week at the local,
Courage Best (Its Courage Best!)
Wells and Youngs Winter Warmer (A once fine ale now dumbed down and boring)
Milk Street Mermaid (not bad but nothing special either)
Milk Street Winter Spice (not overly spiced but not really my thing)
Wychwood Wychcraft (bottled, not brown,"thrice hopped" but standard fayre really)
Blacksheep Riggwelter(dark and not bad)
saved at the 11th hour by BOTW ,the dependable
Darkstar Hophead.

Bucking Fastard
17-12-2012, 15:32
It looked like I was going to have to nominate CW Directors :eek:due to a bad run of ales in Wolverton but the week was saved at the death by a pint of Mordue Howay in a Manger in The Red Lion,Leighton Buzzard on Sunday evening.

A very good festive ale,dark and malty but balanced by bitterness,it flew down.Liked the name as well.

Annual pilgrimage to The Old Fountain should provide a winner for next week:nishelypished: ,more likely than the pub crawl around Hertford on Black Friday.

oldboots
17-12-2012, 17:27
A mixed bag of beers this week only the Cottage and Abbeydale weren't up to much but the BOTW is Nethergate Umbel Magna Porter


Nethergate Umbel Magna Porter
Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger
Fullers Bengal Lancer
Hardknott Infrared
Abbeydale Absolution
Wychwood Hobgoblin
Magic Rock Curious
Copper Dragon North Star
Cottage AEC Regal
Kirkstall Dissolution IPA
Moorhouses Black Cat
Knaresborough New World IPA
Oakham Inferno
Ilkley Victorian Porter

Wittenden
17-12-2012, 23:03
Derbyshire and neighbouring counties:
Batemans XB:Fine but unfashionable,malty session bitter.
Bradfield Farmers Belgium Blue:Dark ruby,spicy berries ,earthy, leaf tea.
Marston's EPA: Decent pint of a dull beer.
Marston's Pedigree: decent pint of Ped.
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA: intense, seroius ,floral, easily drinkable.
Thornbridge Kipling: Lovely fruity and seductive beer.
Thornbridge Wild Swan: Pennine session beer. Good flavour for the aBV
Peak Ales Noggin Filler 5%abv:Good mellow dark 'un.
Abbeydale Frostbite 4.3%abv: pale 'n' hoppy.Spice, citrus,long bitter finish.
Abbeydale Absolution 5.1%abv.Touch sweeter and more earthy than much Pennine stuff.Good and English.
Oakwell Barnsley Bitter 3.8%abv. Back in the day-before my time-the former incarnation of this was proper fighting juice.Anyway, this is a prime mid brown session ale,nutty with blackberry.

On reflection , my BOTW is Thornbridge Jaipur, because I've been looking for this for at least 5 years, and surprisingly it justified the hype. On the whole, I prefer Kipling from the Thornbridge beers tried to date, and I tend to favour the more earthy Abbeydale ales to the uber hygenic Thornbridge.

Thuck Phat
18-12-2012, 09:25
Another very quiet week with just the two sampled: Hobgoblin It's Christmas, a touch too sweet and malty for me and the ever excellent BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell, which I've now discovered you can make delicious bread from as well as drinking.

Pubsignman
18-12-2012, 12:41
It's been a while since I've seen anything from Westerham around these parts, but I managed to find two of them on Friday night - God's Wallop and an excellent pint of Westerham 1965 Special Bitter Ale, which pips Gales HSB this week.

ROBCamra
20-12-2012, 14:16
Quite a few good beers last week.

Kelham Island Captain Crimbo was good in Kosmonaut in Manchester.

Nook Blue Sky was also very good in The Salford Arms in Salford.

BOTW is going to be Pin-Up Milk Stout. Smooth, black and creamy, absolutely gorgeous.

795

The girlie on the pump clip isn't bad either. ;)