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ROBCamra
16-10-2013, 13:12
Real Ale Ray: Einstok Icelandic White Ale
Aqualung: Adnams Stone Supremely Self-Conscious Black IPA
Mobyduck: Dark Star Greenhopped IPA
london calling: Fullers 1966
rpadam: Greene King 1799 Porter
hondo: Caledonian Autumn Red
Thuck Phat: Hart Green Hop
aleandhearty: Ossett American Gold
Bucking Fastard: Draught Bass
Wittenden: Ilkley Mary Jane
ROBCamra: Black Edge American Pale Ale

Real Ale Ray
20-10-2013, 16:59
Einstok - Icelandic White Ale

Haven't been to Iceland unfortunately, got this down the offy and it's brill. You can really taste the glaciers.

Aqualung
20-10-2013, 18:09
A bumper week for me with the Spoons Festival on :-

Everard Pumpkin Ale 3.8%
JW Lees Cora 3.9%
Marston's Single Hop Wakatu 4.0%
Brodie's Bethnal Green Bitter 4.0%*
Everard Cambridge Brewing Sgt Pepper 4.0%
Moorhouse's White Mist 4.2%
Oakleaf Cream Of the Crop 4.2%
Jennings World's Biggest Liar 4.3%
Woodforde's Bure Gold 4.3%
St Peter's Extra 4.4%
Thwaites Half Nelson 4.5%
Wychwood 21st Amendment American Bitter Red 4.5%
Marston's Ballast Point Even Keel 4.5%*
Maxim Ruby Max 4.5%
Caledonian Ninkasi Cream Ale 4.5%
Titanic Cappuccino 4.5%*
Shepherd Neame Spooks Ale 4.7%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Adnams Barley Mow 5.0%
Bateman's Fathead's Sunshine Daydream 5.0%
Adnams Stone Supremely Self-Conscious Black IPA 5.0%*
Shepherd Neame Terrapin Tree Hugger IPA 5.0%*
Wadworth What The Fuggles 5.0%
Wadworth Abita Restoration Pale Ale 5.2%*
Hook Norton Flagship 5.3%*
Hopcraft Prince Of Bengal 5.4%
Innis & Gunn Toasted Oak IPA 5.6%
Banks's Harpoon IPA 5.9%
Batemans Hazelnut Brownie 6.3%*
Thwaites Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA 6.3%
Dark Star Green Hopped IPA 6.4%*
Greene King The Abbot's Confession 8.5%*

The starred ones were the ones that I liked the best, but I'm a sucker for a Black IPA so that has to get the award. According to the Spoons booklet this one is made with seven different hops. Not one for the Boring Brown Bitter Brigade!!!

BOTW Adnams Stone Supremely Self-Conscious Black IPA

Mobyduck
20-10-2013, 19:11
Blacksheep -Golden Sheep
Portobello- Pale
Hopback- Summer Lightening
Courage - Best
Bowmans-Swift One
Bowmans- Quiver
Bowmans-Yumi
Bowmans-Wallops Wood
Longdog-Bunny Chaser
Longdog-Brindle Bitter
Longdog- Ale Dorado
Longdog- Lamplight Porter
Timothy Taylor- Landlord
Wild Weather- Big Muddy
Darkstar- Greenhopped IPA

BOTW again Greenhopped IPA

london calling
20-10-2013, 21:06
bOTW could have been magic Rock -blueberry ipa 6.0 in the Draft House Battersea on wed
or Siren -half mast 2.8 in the Nags Head Reading yesterday
but the bottle of Fullers -1966 strong ale last night was superb and will not be the last one I drink.
(this was last brewed to celebrate England,s world cup victory which being a Scotsman I found hard to swallow.Unlike this beer.)

rpadam
20-10-2013, 21:58
Please don't throw things at me, but the most unexpectedly good beer / pub combination this week was the Greene King 1799 Porter at the newly refurbished Chequers (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14897/) in the Old Town part of Stevenage.

Aqualung
20-10-2013, 23:26
Please don't throw things at me, but the most unexpectedly good beer / pub combination this week was the Greene King 1799 Porter at the newly refurbished Chequers (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14897/) in the Old Town part of Stevenage.

Haven't GK got an "experimental" brewery set up now, as clearly lots of other regionals do? It was only a Black IPA that stopped me voting their 8.5% Abbot's confession as BOTW. It was a dangerously drinkable brew compared to say Old Tom of a similar strength. I think the problem with GK mainstream beers is that they use the same mash for all of them and then adjust it afterwards which is why they all taste similar.

hondo
21-10-2013, 07:14
caledonian - autumn red

Thuck Phat
21-10-2013, 11:06
A very quiet week for the boozer but a few different bottled ales tried:

Cask:
Oakham Bishops Farwewell

Bottled:
Oakham Citra
North Cotswold Hung, Drawn 'n' Portered
Fullers London Porter
Dow Bridge Praetorian Porter
Hart Green Hop

The Praetorian Porter was the best bottled porter I've tried shading the consistently good London Porter. BOTW was Hart Green Hop, at 5% it does exactly as it says and is another very good beer from a brewery which brews a few of those.

aleandhearty
21-10-2013, 11:07
Fairly quiet week, with very little to set the pulse racing. Several beers were not quite at their best.

Derventio - Cleopatra.
Fernandes - Folklore.
Fernandes - Simcoe.
Blakemere - Fruit Stout.
Ossett - American Gold.
Colchester - Metropolis.
Revolutions - E.P.
Ilkley - Joshua Jane.
Partners - Tabatha.
Fernandes - Nelson IPA.
Fernandes - Black Voodoo Stout.

Can't remember the last time I nominated a pale Ossett beer for BOTW, but the AG is really rather good. It actually tastes of something, thanks to the American hops. Very sessionable at 3.5%.

Bucking Fastard
21-10-2013, 12:44
The only BOTW was Bass,but did manage to get three pints down in The Clifford Arms,Great Haywood on a short trip south.

Next weeks looks like a bonaza with two visits to The George and a maiden trip to The Mansion House,Kennington for an Oakham Orgy,just trying to get in shape for the Leeds PuG trip.:nishelypished:

Wittenden
21-10-2013, 20:49
Yorkshire and adjacent counties:good week.
Yorkshire Dales:Nappa Scar 4%abv:amber,very well hopped,uncompromising malt.
Yorkshire Dales:Askrigg Ale 4.3%abv:mid brown, more balanced.Long hop finish.
Yorkshire Dales:Muker Silver 4%abv:not as pale, not as austere as before.
Thornbridge: Dark Harry:3.9%abv: Thornbridge's take on a MILD:very clinical.Toast, charcoal mouthfeel.Long hoppy finish.
Ilkley:Mary Jane:3.5%abv:Sublime.Very pale. Excellent hop and autumn fruit.Just this once I'll forgive the use of Yankee hops in English beer.
Black Sheep:Brew#1:4.8%abv:A beer from Black Sheep's micro brewery. Ultra pale, with Cascades and added coriander and orange peel. Slightly oily, and not really to my taste. Malt and hops only for me.
Jarrow:Rivet Catcher:4%abv:Pale 'n' hoppy. Sinuous hops.
Allendale:Golden Plover:4%abv:Very pale, nettley hops. Berries.Verging on five star.
Wold Top:Mallard:4%abv:Never too sure about Wold Top beers.Quite austere, with lingering fruitiness.
Treboom:Baron Saturday:5.2%abv:Lovely porter: dark coffee-bitter:toast and vanilla.
Theakston:Old Peculier:5.6%abv:Unlike Abbott, this hasn't deteriorated.Mysterious,dried fruit.
Theakston:Black Bull bitter:3.9%abv:Initially bland, intriguing flowery finish.
A very close run thing between the Baron and Mary Jane,with competition from Yorkshire Dales and Allendale. My BOTW,Ilkley-Mary Jane.

Oggwyn Trench
23-10-2013, 20:48
Not a drop this week ....... not a bloody drop :(

ROBCamra
02-11-2013, 14:01
Black Edge American Pale Ale in The Baum of course.