Beer of the Week (w/e 5th June 2016)

[ROBCamra]

gillhalfpint: Blue Anchor Spingo Special
Mobyduck: Wiper and True Milkshake
Aqualung: Blue Monkey Fat Ape
Wittenden: Long Man Golden Tipple
hondo: Swannay Orkney Best
aleandhearty: Kirkstall Black Band Porter
Thuck Phat: Bad Co Love Over Gold
london calling: Thornbridge Jaipur
Real Ale Ray: Target Hop Rankin'
Komakino: Upham Punter
Bucking Fastard: Northern Monk True North
ROBCamra: Belleville Battersea Brown

[gillhalfpint]

Found a perfect St Austell HSD, but my favourite this week has to be Blue Anchor Spingo Special.

[Mobyduck]

A half decent week,
Darkstar Hophead
Adnams Mosaic*
Oakham JHB*
Oakham Citra
Cloudwater US Light Amarillo
Mallisons Simcoe*
Siren Proteus Volume 2 V2
Siren Peligrosos (keg)*
Hopcraft/Bragdy Twt Lol Men Of Steel*
Wiper and True Milkshake*
Uprising Treason*
Wild Weather Squid Ink Black IPA (it wasn't black!? )
Fullers London Pride
Arkles Moonlight
Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter
Fullers Olivers Island
West Berks Good Old Boy
Loddon Summer Snowflake
Longdog Lamplight Porter*
Butts Traditional
Merrie City Crystal Gold*
Sharps Doom Bar

Very much a mixed bag with most of the action in Berkshire, Reading and Newbury, the Best of the bunch though was Wiper and True Milkshake
a very palatable milk stout.

[Aqualung]

A hectic week for me with a visit to the local brewery fest followed by a stay in the North East and a day out yesterday in Chesterfield :-

Hadrian Tyneside Blonde 3.6%
Cumberland Corby Amber 4.0%
Allendale Pennine Pale 4.0%*
Hammerton N1 4.1%*
Sonnet 43 Raven Porter 4.3%
Great Newsome Holderness Dark 4.3%*
Grafton Lady Julia 4.3%
Sandway Hop Sepia 4.3%
Sonnet 43 Aurora 4.4%
High House Farm Nettle Ale 4.5%
Allendale Cardinal 4.6%
Oakham Bishop's Farewell 4.6%*
Wild Card Ace Of Spades Porter 4.7%
North Yorkshire White Lady 4.7%
Shiny Abyss Mild 4.7%
Allendale GFPA 4.7%*
Five Points Railway Porter 4.8%*
Mordue Radgie Gadgie 4.8%
Allendale Adder Lager 5.0%*
Rudgate Volsun 5.0%*
Haqmbleton's Nightmare Porter 5.0%*
Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA (keg) 5.0%*
Bradfield Farmers Pale 5.0%
Lincoln Green Quarterstaff 5.0%
Wild Card Blonde Cascade + 5.1%*
Redemption Fellowship Porter 5.1%
Mad Fox Defender 5.2%
Blue Monkey Bonobo Black IPA 5.3%*
Sonnet 43 Impressment APA 5.4%*
Bad Seed Cascade 5.4%
Hop & Cleaver Bosch 5.5%*
Allendale Wolf 5.5%
Blue Monkey Infinity +1 5.6%*
Big Lamp Keelman Brown 5.7%*
Wishbone Black Porter 6.0%*
Marble Howgate & Kemp 6.4%
Broughton Old Jock 6.7%
Blue Monkey Fat Ape 7.0%*
Anarchy Sublime Chaos 7.0%*

There's so much to choose from it's scrambling my mind as much as consuming them all. I would like to give an honourable mention to the Allendale Pennine Pale which was a superb new worl hopped low abv beer. The award however goes to Blue Monkey Fat Ape as tried for £3.80 in the Chesterfield Arms in er, Chesterfield. I suspect it may be a stronger version of their two infinity beers but those two make for a very high starting point.

BOTW Blue Monkey Fat Ape

[Wittenden]

West Sussex, East Kent:

Dark Star-Hophead 3.85abv-Jaded.
Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv-Unimpeacheable. Both these two at the eyewatering, if not criminal, price of £4.40/pint at The Horse Guards Inn (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/64916/)
Brew Buddies BB01 Best Bitter Challenger Bobeck-4.3%abv-Workmanlike mid brown saloon bar stalwart.Toffee with a long hoppy finish.Unfined but not murksome. From a new -to- me Kent micro.Taken at The Freed Man, Walmer.
Burning Sky-Plateau-3.5% abv-Wonderfully flavoursome for the ABV.Assertive hops: a classic.
Long Man-Golden Tipple-4.7%abv- Nice change to see the malting barley referenced. Tropical and Christmas fruits. Bitter sweet.These two taken at The Berry (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/62934/)
A very close thing between the Long Man and the Burning Sky,but my BOTW is Golden Tipple,partly because it is a pale(ish) beer at a abv range that I'm not usually happy with for lighter beers.

[Aqualung]

Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv-Unimpeacheable. Both these two at the eyewatering, if not criminal, price of £4.40/pint at The Horse Guards Inn (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/64916/)


Definitely criminal! I remember that one as a King & Barnes house. I bet it's not that expensive in their own pub the Swan at nearby Midhurst which if I remember rightly is a very Olde Worlde sort of place.

[hondo]

Swannay Brewery - Orkney Best

[Wittenden]

Definitely criminal! I remember that one as a King & Barnes house. I bet it's not that expensive in their own pub the Swan at nearby Midhurst which if I remember rightly is a very Olde Worlde sort of place.

I'd have loved this as a K&B pub!

[aleandhearty]

Quiet week for me.

Oakham - Citra.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Horbury - 13 1/2.
Northallerton - Peloton Pale.
Fernandes/Rat - F-RAT-ernity.*
Shiny - Pail.
Small World - Twin Falls.
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter.*
Fernandes - Jackdaw Mild.

If the Citra had been fresh, it would have won easily. However, it was rather tired, so the honours go to an old favourite - BBP. Sampled in the Fernandes Tap, Wakefield.

[Thuck Phat]

Interesting week:

Blue Monkey Funky Gibbon
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Kelham Island Easy Rider
Bad Co Love Over Gold*
Derventio Cleopatra*
Everards Old Original*

BOTW Bad Co Love Over Gold. Pale, hoppy and refreshing with a hint of tropical fruit and a bitter finish. Ideal summer glugging at 4.1%.

[london calling]

I was in Berlin for three days so will mention 2 for my beer of the week
Germany -Willys-black ipa 8.0 not a black ipa imo but a tremendous stout /porter (craft obviously)
England- Thornebridge -Jaipur absolutely stunning at Gatwick airport Mcspoons (I have moaned about this beer not having the flavour its famous for but this was back to its best)
absolutely stunned by the price as well £4.99 for cask beer.

[london calling]

A half decent week,
Darkstar Hophead
Adnams Mosaic*
Oakham JHB*
Oakham Citra
Cloudwater US Light Amarillo
Mallisons Simcoe*
Siren Proteus Volume 2 V2
Siren Peligrosos (keg)*
Hopcraft/Bragdy Twt Lol Men Of Steel*
Wiper and True Milkshake*
Uprising Treason*
Wild Weather Squid Ink Black IPA (it wasn't black!? )
Fullers London Pride
Arkles Moonlight
Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter
Fullers Olivers Island
West Berks Good Old Boy
Loddon Summer Snowflake
Longdog Lamplight Porter*
Butts Traditional
Merrie City Crystal Gold*
Sharps Doom Bar

Very much a mixed bag with most of the action in Berkshire, Reading and Newbury, the Best of the bunch though was Wiper and True Milkshake
a very palatable milk stout.

The squid Ink black ipa is described by the brewery as the colour of the briny deep. Cant argue with that description.

[Mobyduck]

The squid Ink black ipa is described by the brewery as the colour of the briny deep. Cant argue with that description.

Murky Gold?

[Real Ale Ray]

Target Brewery - Hop Rankin'

[Komakino]

Upham Punter (4.0%)

[Bucking Fastard]

Late submission from me,Gloucester then a very solid session in Baldock.

Bristol Beer Factory -- Bristol Export *
Gloucester Brewery -- Chinook
Brewhouse (Gloucester) -- SSB Ameican Pale Ale
Brewhouse (Gloucester) -- Propulsion *
Brewhouse (Gloucester) -- Shed Head Session IPA
Northern Monk -- True North *
Lymestone -- Foundation Stone *
Moor -- Union Hop
Wild Weather -- Robbers *

BOTW went to Northern Monk True North a sublime pale ale and packed full of flavour ,remarkable for 3.7% .One of the best ales at that strength I've ever encountered.On top form in the Orange Tree

[ROBCamra]

Only 4 beers to choose from this week unless you're counting the Estrella and San Miguel.

A short Saturday evening session in The Baum being my only chance with cask ales.

BOTW Belleville Battersea Brown, not normally my sort of beer but made for a change after a week of fizz. :cheers: