Beer of the Week (w/e 16th August 2015)

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: Old Dairy Cattle Shed
Real Ale Ray: Peerless Fusion
Mobyduck: Corfu Beer Pilsner
Aqualung: Elland Hoptomiser
Bucking Fastard: Clarkshaws Strange Brew no.1
hondo: Alechemy Starlaw
aleand hearty: Mallinsons Baby Mosaic
Thuck Phat: Corona Extra :eek:
oldboots: Magic Rock The Magic Spanner
ROBCamra: La Sitgetana Sant Bartomeu Pale Ale

[Wittenden]

Kent
Old Dairy-Cattle Shed APA:4.5%. Bit different from Old Dairy's usual offering.Assertive hops:peaches,bit of grass in there.

[Real Ale Ray]

Peerless - Fusion

[Mobyduck]

A Corfoit list
Mythos
Alfa
Corfu Beer Special Red
Corfu Beer Pilsner
Vast quantitys of all taken , but happy to discover Corfu Beer, a real ale brewery est 2009 and the only such on the island,bottled, served chilled as you would expect given the climate but not bad at all.
BOTW is the Pilsner, they do a few other beers including an IPA and a black beer I hope to track down over the next week.

[Aqualung]

A day in the West Midlands and a half day in thundery Essex so a reasonable list :-

Banks's Mild 3.5%*
George's Brickfield IPA 3.6%
Holden's Black Country Mild 3.7%*
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.8%*
Morton Essington Blond 4.0%
Greene King Ale'oha 4.1%
Hobgoblin Gold 4.2%
Maldon Brewing Co Puck's Folly 4.2%
Mighty Oak Kings 4.2%*
Truman's Lazarus 4.2%*
Burton Bridge Snapshot 4.5%
Derby Double Mash 4.6%*
Sharp's Point Break 4.6%
Grey Friars Auld Jack 4.7%
Backyard Chinook IPA 5.0%
Caledonian Golden Promise 5.0%
Sadler's Hop Bomb 5.0%*
Sharp's Special 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%*
Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild 6.0%
Elland Hoptomiser 6.5%*


The comfortable winner is the Elland Hoptomiser as tried in the Great Western at £3.50. This certainly proved to me that Elland aren't a one trick pony.

BOTW Elland Hoptomiser

[Bucking Fastard]

Modest week

Adnams -- Southwold Bitter
Clarkshaws -- Strange Brew no. 1 *
Brecon Brewing -- Red Beacon
Marstons -- Pedigree New World Pale Ale *

BOTW goes to Clarkshaws Strange Brew no.1 from The Parcel Yard ,Kings Cross. Brewed hazy,interesting hops in a balanced brown beer it slipped down with ease.Not come across this Brixton based micro before.

Next week looking ropey apart from some pre match pints.

[hondo]

alechemy - starlaw

[aleandhearty]

Reasonable week for me.

Frog Island - Best Bitter.
Frog Island - Natterjack.
Imperial - HipHop.*
Mr Grundy - 1914.*
Mallinsons - Baby Mosaic.*
Red Squirrel - Mad Squirrel Milk Stout.
Brass Csatle - Sunshine.*
Fernandes - Westgate Wobbler.
Fernandes - Newky Black.

Easy winner this week, the superb Baby Mosaic, packed with flavour for a 3.7% beer. Sampled in the Fernandes Tap, Wakefield.

[Thuck Phat]

Corona Extra

Best of the eurofizz available and definitely benefits from a slice of lime in the top.

[oldboots]

A bit late but quite a wide range this week helped by a trip to Nottingham, not all are cask by the way,

Magic Rock The Magic Spanner
Tapped Rodeo
Darkstar Expresso Stout
Waen Snowball
Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA
Castle Rock Harvest Pale
Brewsters Music Hall
Tydd Steam Ratcatcher
Falstaff Phoenix
Lincoln Green Tuck
Oakham Citra
Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons
Three Boys IPA
Rudgate Chocolate Stout
Vocations Heart & Soul
Whippet House Dogge
Pennine Best Bitter
Whippet Little Curre


Difficult choice but it's Magic Rock The Magic Spanner for me.

[ROBCamra]

La Sitgetana Sant Bartomeu Pale Ale. A 5.2% drop of pure, tasty lovliness in a sea of Estrella.

La Sitgetana is Sitges' own brewpub. 6 taps on the bar, mainly serving their own ales with an occasional guest.

I drank more pints of this over our 2 weeks here than anything else, apart from the ubiquitous Estrella.

A massive bonus to find a brewpub in a Spanish town. :notworthy: