Beer of the Week (w/e 13th September 2015)

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter
Mobyduck: Titanic Steerage
Thuck Phat: Grainstore Ten Fifty
aleandhearty: Black Iris Endless Summer
Bucking Fastard: Dorset Jurrasic
Aqualung: Dark Star Revelation
london calling: Kernel Dry Stout Mosaic
ROBCamra: Hopcraft/Pixie Spring Pixie On Parade

[Wittenden]

East Sussex
Harveys-Olympia 4.3%abv Golden ale.Thin,not much flavour about it.Very disappointing for a beer from Harvey's.
Harvey's -Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv Unimpeacheable, my BOTW.

[Mobyduck]

Darkstar Hophead
Marble Manchester*
Bowmans Lapwing
Fullers Olivers Island
West Berks Double Decadence
Oakham Citra*
Oakham Gangster*
Titanic Steerage*
Wild Beer Bibble*
Weird Beard Dark Hopfler*
Magic Rock Rapture*
Siren Craft Dinner for 8*
Big Smoke Electric Eye*
Big Smoke Underworld Chocolate and Vanilla*

A difficult choice this week, the last eight, all enjoyed at the Ale And Cider Festival in Surbitons excellent Antelope (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/53206/), were all very good, especially Weird Beards Dark Hopfler, described as a hoppy milk ale it had unbelievable flavour for a beer at only 2.5%. But BOTW goes to Titanic Steerage which was at its refreshingly zingy best.

[Thuck Phat]

Oakham Gangster*
Grainstore Ten Fifty*
Salopian Spectrum*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

Both the Gangster and the Ten Fifty were excellent. Both look like BBB's, neither is and both are fruity and tasty. The Gangster is more citrussy, as is Oakham's wont whilst the Ten Fifty is more berries and forest fruit which suited me on the day. Enough of the Jilly Goolden.

BOTW Grainstore Ten Fifty

[aleandhearty]

...Ten Fifty is more berries and forest fruit which suited me on the day. Enough of the Jilly Goolden.

Comparisons to berries and forest fruit are acceptable. When you start using words like 'shoe polish' and 'pencil shavings', then you will be soundly thrashed. :)

[aleandhearty]

A reasonable week, largely made up of new beers (to me). However, some of them were pretty underwhelming.

Knops - East Coast Pale.
Woodforde's - Norfolk Champion.
Whippet - Little Curre.*
Roosters - Baby Faced Assassin.
Stancill - India Ruby Ale.
Treboom - Kettle Drum.
Black Iris - Endless Summer. *
Vibrant Forest - Cydonia.
Five Points - IPA. (Keg)*
Firebrand - Breakout IPA.
Sonnet 43 - American PA.

Easy winner was the Endless Summer, a refreshing session IPA.

[Bucking Fastard]

This lack of quaffing is becoming a serious problem.

BOTW was by default Dorset Brewing Company Jurrasic,in reasonable shape in The Acorn Inn,Evershot and the only pint of the week:o

I did have a few bottles of Marston's IPA which at 5.9% was similar to Old Empire ,but not real ale in a bottle.Decent however.

Next week starts the slow drift south for the winter,so expecting some Titanic action to lift the spirits.

[Aqualung]

I thought I'd already posted this but must have forgotten to submit it!
Lots of good beers tried this week :-

Cadtle Rock Black Gold 4.0%*
Milk street Funky Momkey 4.0%
Loncoln Green Archer 4.0%*
Dunscar Bridge Lancashire Stout 4.0%
Blue Monkey BG Sips 4.0%*
Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons 4.2%*
Salopian Hop Twister 4.5%*
Kissingate Old Tale Porter 4.5%
Blue Monkey Infinity 4.6%*
Bragdy Mws Piws Ochr Dywyll Y Mws 4.6%
Harvey's Lewes Castle Brown 4.8%
Blue Monkey Guerilla 4.9%*
Kissingate Coffee Stout 5.0%*
Sadler's Hop Bomb 5.0%*
Imperial Yankee Doodle DanDale 5.0%*
Cairngorm Wildcat 5.1%
Idle Valley Indolent Philosopher 5.3%*
Oldershaw Alchemy 5.3%
Blue Monkey Ape Ale 5.4%
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.4%*
Dark Star Revelation 5.7%*
Welton's Churchillian Stout 6.5%*

The winner is Dark Star Revelation my favourite by far of the regular Dark Star offerings. It was £3.70 in a Greene King pub called the Brewery Shades in Creepy Crawley.


BOTW Dark Star Revelation

[london calling]

Not a bad one amongst them as I have not bothered to list the bad ones
trumans -somersault
tickety brew-pale ale
siren -dinner for eight
badseed -el dorado pale
black jack -gold coast
west berks -double decadence
arbor -mortueka
salopian -hop twister
big smoke -dark wave
darkstar -festival
otley -white choc coconut beetroot stout
40ft brewery -pale ale

and the star of the show

Kernel -dry stout mosaic

[london calling]

And beard of the week
Jeremy Corbyn
oops!!! wrong thread

[ROBCamra]

Hopcraft/Pixie Spring - Pixie On Parade 3.8%.

A collaboration specially brewed for Newport RFC beer festival, so god knows what it was doing in The Baum.

A golden, fruity, hoppy beer and at only 3.8%, ideal for a session. :cheers: