Beer of the Week (w/e 10th March 2013)

[ROBCamra]

Bucking Fastard: Everards Tiger
Oggwyn Trench: Crouch Vale Riwaka
Mobyduck: Hopback GFB
oldboots: Acorn Old Moor Porter
Real Ale Ray: Little Valley Tod's Blonde
london calling: Raw Citra Black Ale
Wittenden: Dark Star 1910 Porter
hondo: Stewart Brewing Edinburgh Gold
aleandhearty: Welbeck Abbey Henrietta
Thuck Phat: Oakham Random Rabbit
Aqualung: Nethergate Umbel Magna
Pubsignman: Raw Citra Pale
ROBCamra: First Chop AVA

[Bucking Fastard]

The half pint of Dark Star Russian Imperial Stout (10.5%,£2.50) in The George was packed full of various flavours and was drinkable but BOTW goes to a dependable old favourite Everards Tiger well kept in The Plume of Feathers ,Weedon.It may look boring and brown,but being correctly hopped makes it a great quaffing pint IMHO.

Next week I will be doing well to get a beer :(

[Oggwyn Trench]

A few decent ones on Saturday

Marstons - East Kent Goldings Single Hop
Banks - Sunbeam
Allgates/Prospect - Joint Venture
Bobs - Golden Lion
Mallinsons - Chinook
White Rose - Ziggy Gecko and the Beers from Mars
Crouch Vale - Riwaka

BOTW Crouch Vale - Riwaka

[Mobyduck]

Milk Street- Beer
Courage - Directors
Butcombe Bitter
St Austell- Tribute
Hopback- GFB

Not many to choose from but Hopback- GFB just shades it this week.

[oldboots]

A couple of outstanding beers, a couple I didn't care for and a real stinker. Mallinsons have never made a bad beer but the Acorn Old Moor Porter was the best.

Elland - Best Bitter
Acorn - Old Moor Porter
Taylors - Golden Best
Mallinsons - Pearle Amarillo
Liverpool Craft - Icon
Leeds - Pale
Saltaire - Cascadian Black
Rudgate - Ruby Mild
Hop Studio - Porter
Redemption - Big Chief
York - Guzzler
Pennine - Amber Necker

[Real Ale Ray]

BOTW Little Valley Brewery Tod's Blonde

[london calling]

Lots of good beers this week
oakham-preacher
oakham -attilla
oakham -dreamcatcher
were all v good but the
Raw -citra black ale last night in the Market Porter was the tops.

[Wittenden]

Dreams of the old railwaymen
Dark Star 1910 Porter at the Salehurst Halt. What a beer-sinuous, chewy,coffee 'n' chocolate and best leaf tea.The only draught beer drunk this week,but in line for BOTY.Epic.

[hondo]

Stewart Brewing - Edinburgh Gold

[aleandhearty]

Reasonable week for me, but nothing that blew my socks off. Tried this week:

Jarrow - McConnell's Irish Stout.
Jarrow - JB Bitter.
Raw - JR Best Bitter.
Fernandes - Black Voodoo.
Oakham - Attilla.
Great Heck - Dispensible.
Great Heck - Yakima IPA.
Welbeck Abbey - Henrietta.
Fernandes - Marynka.
Saltaire - Hazelnut Coffee Porter.
Ascot - Alley Cat Ale.

My favourite was one with a comparatively low ABV - Henrietta 3.6%. A golden ale made with Challenger, Cascade and Hallertaur Brewer's Gold. A great session beer.

[Thuck Phat]

This week:
TT Landlord
Old Empire IPA
Wadworths 6X
Everards Tiger
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Oakham Random Rabbit

All the well known ones, with the exception of the 6X, were very good and the Landlord, tried here (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/2423/), was one of the best I've had in the South. BOTW was Oakham Random Rabbit which was blonde, bitter and one of the driest beers I've had at 4.8%.

[Aqualung]

A fair number to chose from this weel :-

Yeovil Glory 3.8%
Turner's East Sussex Bitter 3.9%
Wickwar's Banker's Draft 4.0%
Long Man Old Man 4.3%
Welton's Black Water Snake 4.4%
Elgood's Thin Ice 4.7%
Lymestone Stone Cold 4.7%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Cotleigh Snowy 5.0%
Nethergate/Growler Umbel Magna 5.0%
Banks & Taylor SOS 5.0%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.3%
Greene King Abbot Reserve 6.5%
Brodie's Cranberry IPA (keykeg) 7.0%
Brodie's Kiwi IPA (keykeg) 7.2%


The winner is an old favourite Umbel Magna which was tried in the Drum at Leyton for £2.40.

The Snowy and ones I've previously nominated as BOTW made it quite difficult to choose.

BOTW Nethergate Umbel Magna

[Pubsignman]

Had a few good ones in Sheffield this week - Sheffied Brewing Five Rivers, Tapped Treacle Stout and Cross Bay Winter Moon were all very nice, but BOTW goes to Raw Citra Pale - an excellent showcase for the Citra hop from one of my favourite breweries.

[ROBCamra]

A trip around Chorlton-cum-Hardy on Friday gave me a very large list to choose from this week alongside a number of great beers tried in The Baum.

The winner is going to be First Chop AVA tried in The Beagle (on PuG but awaiting a name change).

Only 3.5% but very tasty and named after the brewers daughter who he says is also a hoppy blonde. :D:cheers: