Beer of the Week (w/e 29th June 2014)

[ROBCamra]

london calling: Malmesbury Day Star
Real Ale Ray: Bowland Hen Harrier
Wittenden: Larkins Traditional
Mobyduck: Windsor & Eton Eton Boatman
Aqualung: Hopcraft Bikini Attol
Bucking Fastard: Saltaire Elderflower Blonde
hondo: Abbeydale Deception
Thuck Phat: Titanic Iceberg
ROBCamra: Deeside Ten 57

[london calling]

Lots of good beers again but nothing exceptional
weltons -come on England
upstairs brewing -Arabian nights
exe valley -darkest devon
yoevil -spring forward
London fields -3 weisse monkeys
firebrand -table pa
and the best of the bunch a new brewery for me
malmsbury -day star

[trainman]

3 weisse monkeys



Hehehe...



malmsbury -day star

Where was this LC..?

[Real Ale Ray]

Bowland - Hen Harrier

[Wittenden]

Kent, Sir:hops, cherries...and Larkins.
Larkins-Traditional 3.4%abv. Not so much of the signature toffee, but raspberries and a long bitter finish.A classic session beer. My BOTW

[Mobyduck]

Small list this week,
Darkstar Hophead 3.8%
Darkstar American Pale Ale 4.7%
Mash Mash Bitter 3.9%
Surrey Hills Greensand IPA 4.6%
Windsor & Eton Eton Boatman4.3%

The Eton Boatman was in top condition enjoyed in The Bricklayers Arms (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/24569/), and is BOTW.
A trip to Brighton next Friday should help provide a longer list next week.

[Aqualung]

A modest selection this time. The week was summed up when I went into one of my local Spoons yesterday to find THREE of the six guests were World Cup beers. Even the Brodie's Wimblebore beer was supposed to be a World cup one but got rebadged after England's triumphant exit. Maybe when that incredibly dull Scotsman gets thrashed they'll change it to a Commonwealth Games beer. It's just the Kiwi beer with a load of tropical fruit flavouring. To be honest I prefer the original.


Brodie's Wimbledon 3.8%
Butcombe Gold 4.4%
Wharfebank Lanterne Rouge 4.4%
Naylor's Citradelic 4.4%
Purity Pure UBU 4.5%
Hopcraft Bikini Attol 4.5%
Portobello Market Porter 4.6%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
RCH East street Cream 5.0%
Hopcraft Citraic 5.2%
Elgood's Greyhound 5.2%

The easy winner was Hopcraft Bikini Attol and this isn't even one of their top three beers IMO. It's a medium strength pale hop bomb and was £2.60 in the Leyton William IV.
I'm hoping for better things next week.


BOTW Hopcraft Bikini Attol

[Bucking Fastard]

A half decent week.

Mc Mullens -- Cask
Mc Mullens -- Shreiv'ale
Saltaire -- Elderflower Blonde
Marble -- Lagonda IPA
Marble -- Dobber
Summer Wine -- Diablo IPA
Siren Craft -- Undercurrent
Celt Experience -- Double Dose (Collaboration with Indy-Man)


The Marble beers were not on top form,so BOTW goes to Saltaire Elderflower Blonde taken in The Old Barge,Hertford.Interesting and an easy quaff on a sunny day.


End of this week back in Huddersfield and then boating through Wakefield and Brighouse,while the following week completes the journey over the Rochdale Canal to Manchester.Should guarentee some very good BOTW contenders.

[london calling]

Hehehe...



Where was this LC..?

Dean Swift se1 next to Tower Bridge.

[hondo]

Abbeydale Brewery- Deception

[Thuck Phat]

A shonky week on all fronts with just Oakham Bishops Farewell and BOTW Titanic Iceberg tried. The Iceberg was a delightful interlude on a warm day.

[aleandhearty]

One of those rare weeks where I didn't make it to the pub, unfortunately. :(

[Wittenden]

One of those rare weeks where I didn't make it to the pub, unfortunately. :(

All too common...

[ROBCamra]

Deeside Ten 57 India Pale Ale tried in The Baum.

A great beer which as the clue in the name suggests is 5.7%, but dangerously drinkable.

3 pints of it on Friday night may well have been a mistake given that I'd already had 4 other pints before I started on it. :o:cheers: