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Conrad
12-04-2010, 07:18
More Wetherspoons Beer Festival?

aleandhearty: Acorn 'Gorlovka Stout' (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11869#post11869)
Oggwyn Trench: Abbeydales, Doctor Mortons Embalming Preperation (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11873#post11873)
trainman: Brewdog's Trashy Blonde (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11889#post11889)
Hopwas: Brewdog's Trashy Blonde (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11893#post11893)
ROBCamra: Highland Brewery's Orkney IPA (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11895#post11895)
oldboots: Acorn St George's Best (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11896#post11896)
Millay: Allgates Brigantia (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11900#post11900)
RogerB: Budelse Capucijn (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11917#post11917)
Evil Gazebo: Titanic Stout (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11926#post11926)
Pubsignman: Twickenham Spring Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11933#post11933)
HTM69: Brains Honest Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?2084-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-18-Apr-2010%29&p=11952#post11952)

hopwas
12-04-2010, 09:36
More Wetherspoons Beer Festival?

Yep! Another 2 weeks to go before another beer festival in May.. :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Evil Gazebo
17-04-2010, 16:39
The best so far this week, in no particular order, like…

McConnells Irish Stout (Jarrow Brewery)
Oyster Stout (Arbor Ales)
Old Cornelius (Jarrow Brewery)
Adnams Extra

I am planning on having some kind of complicated play-off system to decide the winner tomorrow, as Mrs Gazebo is stuck in Boston (Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire.)

aleandhearty
17-04-2010, 16:57
Two very strong contenders this week: Elland '1872 Porter' and Acorn 'Gorlovka Stout', with barely a cigarette paper's difference in quality between them. The 1872 is a little richer and more complex, but the Gorlovka is slightly more drinkable, by my palate. On that basis I'll go for the Acorn.

Oggwyn Trench
17-04-2010, 18:59
After a quietish week ,Grafton Fairground Attraction , Summer Wine Tiberius , Slaters Craic , Goffs Lancelot , Old cornelius, all Ok but nothing outstanding im going for Abbeydales , Doctor Mortons Embalming Preperation if for nothing better than an amussing pump clip

trainman
18-04-2010, 11:39
Has to be Brewdog's Trashy Blonde for me, at Wimbledon's Wibbas Down Inn.

After a staggeringly disappointing sporting day, diametrically opposite to Roger's, my wotw was Domaine Edmond Cornu et Fils, 2006 Mersault, just pipping the same stand's Chateau de la Saule Montagny Premier Cru at the Times Wine fest at RHS building last night. If you wanted to try them elsewhere, however, they would knock you back £23.40 & £13.49 per btl respectively.

hopwas
18-04-2010, 14:13
I posted this in wrong thread "week ending 11th April" until Trainman pointed out..

Sorry! Anyway here.. My BOTW goes to excellent Brew Dog's Trashy Blonde. I had a pint of Fremlins which everyone was raving on about but I thought it was rather average and nothing special.

RogerB
18-04-2010, 14:30
Having spent the morning chopping 10 feet off the privet hedge and discovering that I had a lawn underneath the wild meadow in the back garden, whatever I drink next will be my BotW.

ROBCamra
18-04-2010, 15:24
Well after a heavy week I'm going to go for Highland Brewery's Orkney IPA tried in the Abbotsford in Edinburgh.

Far superior to all the JDW festival beers that I've tried this week. :cheers:

oldboots
18-04-2010, 17:05
After a late but unsuccessful challenge from Pheonix Black Shadow, my BOTW is Acorn St George's Best by a short head.



JDW "Frestival" beers tasted - 0

Millay
18-04-2010, 21:58
After a late but unsuccessful challenge from Pheonix Black Shadow, my BOTW is Acorn St George's Best by a short head.

JDW "Frestival" beers tasted - 0

The Phoenix Black Shadow is actually a 'frestival' beer OB, did you find it somewhere else.

Millay
18-04-2010, 22:00
I'm going for a JDW frestival beer this week, the Allgates Brigantia

RogerB
19-04-2010, 10:11
A few decent 'Spoons beers this week (and some awful ones). The Peach Melbear would win most weeks and the new recipe Butcomb Blonde was pretty decent (as was the old recipe from memory)but the outstanding beer for me was the Budelse Capucijn at the Elms in Leigh on Sea. For a 6%'er I found it an easy drink and it hardly touched the sides. Will probably end up as my 'Spoons Fest Favourite at this rate.

oldboots
19-04-2010, 11:29
The Phoenix Black Shadow is actually a 'frestival' beer OB, did you find it somewhere else.

Yes in a pub 10 minutes walk from my house, it's a half hour bus ride to the nearest 'spoons (plus the cost of two pints, or 3 in a JDW, for the bus fare). Maybe I should suggest that nearby empty furniture shop to JDW using the handy form on another thread.

Evil Gazebo
19-04-2010, 11:49
Despite late challenges from Arbor's Old Knobbley and Tring's Jack O'Legs, the final drink-off came down to Jarrow's Old Cornelius vs Titanic's Stout.

BOTW = Titanic Stout.

Pubsignman
19-04-2010, 12:50
Lots of great beer this week. Honourable mentions to the Herord Black Chalice at the JDW fest, Skinners Cornish Knocker and Ringwood Fortyniner both at the Bull's Head festival (Croydon) and Surrey Hills Shere Drop.

But BOTW goes to Twickenham Spring Ale, the perfect pint after a long walk along the Thames in the sun this weekend.

Weird pint of the week goes to Stonehenge Sign of Spring - a bright green beer reminiscent in appearance of one of those toxic alcopops, but actually very drinkable. I have no idea why they made it green - I thought it might be a left-over from St Patrick's Day, but apparently not.

Oggwyn Trench
19-04-2010, 18:22
Lots of great beer this week. Honourable mentions to the Herord Black Chalice at the JDW fest, Skinners Cornish Knocker and Ringwood Fortyniner both at the Bull's Head festival (Croydon) and Surrey Hills Shere Drop.

But BOTW goes to Twickenham Spring Ale, the perfect pint after a long walk along the Thames in the sun this weekend.

Weird pint of the week goes to Stonehenge Sign of Spring - a bright green beer reminiscent in appearance of one of those toxic alcopops, but actually very drinkable. I have no idea why they made it green - I thought it might be a left-over from St Patrick's Day, but apparently not.

I had the Sign of Spring in the Crown , Oakengates a few weeks ago ,weird but nice , it was on the pull next to the Strawberry Cider which is bright pink ! very colourfull

Pubsignman
19-04-2010, 18:28
I had the Sign of Spring in the Crown , Oakengates a few weeks ago ,weird but nice , it was on the pull next to the Strawberry Cider which is bright pink ! very colourfull

The barman insisted I try it first because so many people had complained once they'd seen the colour!

HTM69
19-04-2010, 20:29
18 pints sampled last week over a 3-day period

Fullers Discovery x 1
Shepherd Neame Late Red x 1
Heineken x 2
Bombardier x 4
London Pride x 4
Zululand Zulu Blonde x 1
Beartown Peach Melbear x 1
Brains Honest Ale x 1
Allgates Brigantia x 1
Rodsters Patriot x 1
Mauldons Thomas’ Tipple x 1

BOTW: Brains Honest Ale

hopwas
21-04-2010, 14:02
After visit to Brum on Monday..

Everards Flourish
Oxford Blue
Young Tom
Holden's Burton Runner
Hydes Over a Barrel
Butcombe Blond
Early Mist
Elgood's Hawkwind
Farmers Glory
Black Chalice
Suffolk Springer

Bonus: Thatchers Old Rascal