Beer of the Week (w/e 7th August 2016)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Mobyduck]

Extremley quite week by variety,
Darkstar Hophead (a fair amount of)
Long Man Long Blonde*(lots of)
Little Beer Little Smooth*

Plus a bottle
Goose Island IPA

and a tin
Crafty Dan 13 Guns*

BOTW is Long Man Long Blonde very sessionable.

Expecting a much expanded list next week a week off work with trips planned up that London Tueseday, another on Thursday to the GBBF and Bevois Valley and beyond next Saturday.

[Wittenden]

Kent:
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadd's)-No 7.3.8%abv.Excellent session beer:lightly herbaceous,grassy hops.Quite unusual to see any Gadd's in my part of Kent.My BOTW

[Bucking Fastard]

Navigating in London,trip to West Berkshire.

Fullers -- ESB *
Whitstable Bay -- Pale Ale(keg)
Salopian -- Hop Twister *
Skinners -- Betty Stogs
West Berkshire -- Mr Chubb's Lunchtime Bitter
Windsor & Eton -- Guardsman

BOTW goes to Salopian Hop Twister in The Coal Hole,refreshing on a sweaty evening.


Next week looks ropey until pre match beers in The George.

[hondo]

andrew usher - the lonely hop keg

[sheffield hatter]

Whim Ales (http://www.whimales.co.uk/) Marynka. A light and hoppy session ale at only 3.3%. Skated through the three pint test when seen at the Blake Hotel (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/43068/)last night.

[oldboots]

Quite a good week by recent standards including two new (to me) breweries.

Banks's - Bitter
Theakstons - Old Peculier
Taylors - Landlord
Durham - Lightning Rod
York - Ghost
Roosters - Buckeye
Issac Poad - No 84 IPA
York Brew - Kiwi Ale
Rat - Bearded Rat
Gt Heck - Yakima IPA
York - Terrier
Siren - Proteus
Tiny Rebel - Stay Puft
Roosters - Londinium


difficult but it's Tiny Rebel Stay Puft again.

[Komakino]

A brief five-pubber in Oxford centre (Broad St / St Giles) on Weds night followed by a wedding Saturday night:

Shotover Prospect (3.7%)
Charles Wells Young's Bitter (3.7%)
Vale High Flyer (4.0%)
Adnams Mosaic (4.1%)*
Nethergate Stour Valley Gold (4.2%)
Gadds' Dogbolter (5.6%) (bottle) BOTW

The Mosaic was the highlight of the Oxford session, enjoyed at the wait-for-15-minutes-whilst-tourists-dither-over-ordering-food Eagle & Child (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55404/), but BOTW was the Gadds', sampled at a wedding in a hotel down at St Margaret-at-Cliffe near Dover. A classic porter with a roasty aroma, and a slightly sweet, yet bitter chocolate finish. Superb.

[london calling]

Only keg beers were in the running this week.All excellent
brew by numbers-55/02 double ipa 8.0
north -transmission 6.9
wiper and true -kaleidoscope 4.0
wiper and true-quintet ipa 6.6
sierra Nevada -11.5 plato
and BOTW
Fierce -peanut riot porter 6.5 at the Rake bar

[Real Ale Ray]

Peerless - Rakau 4.5% in Wetherspoon Express (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/67676/)

[ROBCamra]

London Beer Lab Mosaic & Equinox Pale Ale. 5.5% hopbomb, but doesn't drink like it.

A dangerously moorish beer. Several tried in The Baum. :cheers:

[gillhalfpint]

We were at a beer tasting session in Brew York in York and had so many brilliant beers brought over by a friend from Texas as well as excellent beers from Brew York itself.

Beer of the week has to go to Saint Arnold Brewing Company Pumpkinator (2015) but the best Brew York beer was the sample they had of Magni. Great session I can tell you.

[Aqualung]

A small selection from a day out in Wolverhampton after which I was struck down with a bad attack of cellulitis in my left leg :-


Enville Ginger Ale 4.5%
Slater's Smoked Porter 4.8%
Kent Brewer's Reserve 5.0%*
Bingham Space Hoppy 5.0%*
Fixed Wheel Stout 5.0%*
Holden's Special 5.1%
Newark Five Point Five 5.5%
Derventio Lucretius Cherry Stout 5.5%*


The easy winner is the Derventio Lucretius Cherry Stout (£3.10) as tried in the superb BCA Vine in Wendesfield and possibly my favourite so far of their estate.
It's a strong dry Stout where the cheery flavour is also dry and not overpowering. A better beer than the Titanic Plum Porter as I could easily envisage doing the three pint test with thi whereas the Titanic one much as I like it couldn't envisage passing the three pint test.


BOTW Derventio Lucretius Cherry Stout