Beer of the Week (w/e 2nd November 2014)

[ROBCamra]

Bucking Fastard: Oakham Citra
Real Ale Ray: Reedley Hallows Filly Close Blonde
Mobyduck: Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale
hondo: Tapped Miami Weiss
Aqualung: Sadler's Mud City Stout
london calling: Kissingate Undertakers Varnish
aleandhearty: Great Heck Nelson Simcoe
Thuck Phat: Offbeat Odd Ball Red
Wittenden: Adnams Ghost Ship
ROBCamra: Sky's Edge Citra Smash

[Bucking Fastard]

Good week,mix of styles.


Cruiser -- Atlantic Pale Ale (keg)
Triple fff -- Moondance*
Nethergate -- Black Shadow
Nethergate -- Gangly Goul
Late Knights -- Full Moon
Oakham -- Bishops Farewell *
Oakham -- Citra * (>3PT)


BOTW goes to Oakham Citra which proved to be the perfect session beer in Oaka @The Mansion House.Just how many went down was anyones guess.


Next week remnants of the 'spoons festival then back to Loughborough with stops in Leicester and the surrounding canalside pubs.Should be very good.

[Real Ale Ray]

Tried a lot of good beers on a visit to Lancashire this week, there were some excellent ones, but a brewery new to me from Burnley gets BOTW, one was better than the other, but this one topped them all

Reedley Hallows - Filly Close Blonde 3.9

[Mobyduck]

Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Bath Ales Barnsey
Milk Street Folklore
Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale

The Ranmore Ale takes the prize this week.

[hondo]

Tapped brew co - Miami Weiss keg

[Aqualung]

A good week for me with the ongoing Spoons fest, a flying visit to the Leyton Orient fest and a visit to the West Midlands.

Enville Ginger 4.0%
Black Sheep Reaper 4.1%
Greene King Old Golden Hen 4.2%
Innis & Gun Edinburgh Pale Ale 4.2%
White Horse Camarillo 4.5%
Craddock's Crazy Sheep 4.5%
Maxim The Simcoe Kid 4.7%
Sadler's Hop Bomb 5.0%
Wadworth 10 Barrel OG IPA 5.0%
Titanic Hop Abroad 5.0%
Wadworth Heather and Honey 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Craddock's Troll 5.4%
Adnam's Sixpoint Brooklyn Bitter 5.5%
Caledonian Trojan Horse 5.5%
Brewster's Brewers Dozen 5.5%
Ilkley Green Rose 5.6%
Brighton Bier Fatboy Stout 5.8%
Revolutions Demonstration Number 8 6.0%
Late Knights Hairy Dog 6.0%
Sadler's Mud City Stout 6.6%
Bateman's Wicked Weed Freak Of Nature 7.5%

The two Sadler's beers tried at the Windsor Castle in Lye were outstanding, but I'll go for the Mud City Stout (£3.70). I thought that the Tap East Sixpence Stout must be the ultimate strong stout but now I really couldn't say.

BOTW Sadler's Mud City Stout

[london calling]

These were all decent
brains -café phoenix
brodies -mosaic
siren -driftwood
hopcraft -belma and brewise
wild beer -scarlet fever
and would like to say Roosters are brewing some top beers
roosters -allstars was hoppy and sessionable
but sometimes a beer that you wouldn't drink loads of hits the spot
BOTW was Kissingate-Undertakers Varnish 7.0

[aleandhearty]

This week's entire consumption was in the pleasurable company of 'trainman' and his South London posse, on Saturday, during a crawl of Wakefield and Horbury's finest.

Riverhead - Marz[d]en.*
Raw - Anubis.*
Ossett - Silver King.
Great Heck - Nelson Simcoe.*
Great Heck - Voodoo Mild.*
Captain Cook - Resolution.
Old Mill - Blonde Bombshell.
Empire - Galaxy Amarillo.*
Durham - Black Velvet.
Clarks - Classic Blonde.
Old Mill - Yorkshire Porter.*
Phoenix - Wobbly Bob.
Ramsbury - Kennet Valley.*
Revolutions - Go Go.
Ilkley - Green Rose.

Several contenders in there, but the Nelson Simcoe was as fresh as a daisy and utterly delicious.

[Thuck Phat]

An interesting week helped by a brief visit to The Merchants (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/57333/) beer festival featuring brewster brewed beers and a few days away for half term.

Mallinsons Lindley Pale Ale
Offbeat Odd Ball Red*
Charnwood Winter Warmer*
Derby Waitangi
Elgoods Indian Summer
Ma Pardoe's Bumble Hole Bitter
Wellbeck Abbey Nightwatchmen
Ringwood Fortyniner*
Jennings Cumberland
Bowman Wallops Wood
Alfred's Saxon Bronze*
Adnams Explorer*
Fullers Red Fox*
Gales HSB*
Flack Manor Flackcatcher
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Salopian Darwins Origin

Some very nice beers in there. BOTW goes to Offbeat - Odd Ball Red, an excellent red ale and perfect for Autumn.

[Wittenden]

Norfolk:
Humpty Dumpty-Little Sharpie 3.8%abv:Straw coloured session beer. Long bitter finish, reedy hops.
Adnams-Ghost Ship 4.5%abv:On gravity dispense from a firkin on the bar.Good touch of the East Wind with this pale 'un.
I've been a fan of Adnams since top-pressure dispense in the student bar days.GS seems the pickof the bunch, though I have a lingering fondness for their old ale. I haven't tried any of their more crafty beers yet. Both taken at the Ferry House, Surlingham.
My BOTW-Adnams Ghost Ship.

[ROBCamra]

Plenty of competition this week with lots of great beer in Sheffield & Newcastle.

BOTW is going to be Sky's Edge Citra Smash tried in Riverside Inn (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/43339/) in Sheffield.

It's not one for the faint hearted at 6.5% but it drinks dangerously like a 4%. :cheers: