Beer of the Week (w/e 28th August 2016)

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: G2 Brewing Otava IPA
Thuck Phat: Byatts Marvellous English IPA
Bucking Fastard: Marble Built to Fall
Spinko: Marble Pint
oldboots: Brass Castle Bad Kitty
Mobyduck: Magic Rock The Magic Spanner
Real Ale Ray: Conwy Beachcomber Blonde
Komakino: Church End Poacher's Pocket
Aqualung: Salopian Oracle
london calling: Hammerton Pentonville Oyster Stout
ROBCamra: Bowness Bay Swallow Gold
Komakino: Lacons Legacy

[Wittenden]

Kent

Kent Brewery-Black Mirror 4.4%abv: Jet black dry stout.
G2 Brewing-Otava IPA 4.5%abv:Lovely straw coloured beer from a brewery new but close to me.Assertive hops:blackcurrants with hay sweetness. My BOTW

[Thuck Phat]

A small but well formed selection:

Great Heck Christopher*
Byatts Marvellous English IPA*
Liverpool Organic Brewery Liverpool Pilsener*
Ashover Butts Pale Ale
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

BOTW Byatts Marvellous English IPA. Marvellous!

[Bucking Fastard]

Hertford and London

Oakham -- Bishops Farewell *
Tring -- Moongazing
St Peter's -- Orange Blaze
St Peter's -- Golden
St Peter's -- IPA (bottle)
St Peters -- Grapefruit (bottle)
Marble -- Earl Grey IPA *
Marble -- Built to Fall *
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *
Thornbridge -- Sequoia
Sambrooks -- Wandle


BOTW goes to Marble Built to Fall ,an exceptional American Pale Ale from Craft Beer Co. ,Leather Lane ,it is vying for Beer of the Year.

Next week another slow boat through hipsterville,some keg but hopefully quality all the way.

[Spinko]

Kelham - Best
Marble - Pint

[oldboots]

An old favourite this week by a country mile

1385

[Bucking Fastard]

An old favourite this week by a country mile

1385

Great pump clips,

[Mobyduck]

Darkstar Hophead
Red Cat Prowler Pale
Anarchy Strait Jacket*
Magic Rock The Magic Spanner*
Red Squirrel Hopfest*
Trumans Swift
Siren Undercurrent*

Had copious amounts of the Undercurrent yesterday and suffered for it today
But BOTW is Magic Rock The Magic Spanner ,a citrus delight.

[Real Ale Ray]

Conwy - Beachcomber Blonde

[Komakino]

Chinnor Beer Festival and Reading:

Chinnor Beer Festival
Bond Brews Rio Rye (3.8%)
Nethergate Umbel (3.8%)
XT 4 (3.8%)
Chiltern Black (3.9%)
Rebellion Agincourt (4.2%)
Animal Osprey (4.6%)
Animal Radler (4.6%)
Lovibonds Loud American (4.7%)
XT XPA (5.9%)

Reading
Church End Poacher's Pocket (3.5%)
West Berkshire Mr Chubb's Lunchtime Bitter (3.7%)
Bristol Beer Factory Nova (3.8%)
Bingham's Marvellous Ale (4.0%)
Loddon Reading Best (4.0%)
Young's Hummingbird (4.2%)
St Austell Harvest Moon (4.3%)
Wychwood Hoptathlon (4.4%)
West Berks Screaming Eagle (4.6%)
Desnoes & Geddes Red Stripe (4.7%)
Downton Bogus Buffalo APA (4.8%)
5AM Red Ale (5.0%)
Cerveceria Fort Barcelona Session Ale (5.0%)
Renegade West Coast Pale Ale (5.1%) (keg)
Lowenbrau Original (5.2%)

No standouts, but I'm going to give it to the Church End which was tried from gravity at Little London's The Plough (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14077/).

BOTW Church End Poacher's Pocket

[ROBCamra]

Great pump clips,

Fancy buying one (or more)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401178294085?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

I know a bloke who sells them. ;)

[Aqualung]

Not much of a choice from local JDWs but all were in good nick:-

Hog's Back Surrey Nirvana 4.0%
Portobello VPA 4.0%
Salopian Oracle 4.0%
Hackney Best 4.4%
Hackney American Pale Ale 4.5%
Loddon Bamboozle 4.8%
Wadworth Fort Session IPA 5.0%
Greene King Abbot 5.0%

The bes is the Salopian Oracle in the E10 Drum for £2.19 despite being a bit warmn.


BOTE Salopian Oracle

[london calling]

Sadly just like Komakino loads of choice but little of quality
brewdog-Belgian fruit ale
brewdog -blackhammer
Charnwood -hello sunshine
moor -pma
siren -sorachi session ipa
wild card-ruby
wild card -ipa
alpine -duet ipa
harvestoun -summer light
elgoods -indian summer
brewshack -Yakima red
fort/Barcelona-session ale
so an old fav was BOTW
Hammertons-pentonville oyster stout

[ROBCamra]

A bit of a quiet week for me with a lack of WOW beers.

Best of the bunch was Bowness Bay Swallow Gold.

A 3.9% pleasant session beer tried in The Baum several times.:cheers:

[Komakino]

Another fairly lacklustre week, but BOTW is Lacons Legacy 4.4% - a Great Yarmouth pale ale served in tiptop condition at The Gate Inn (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/57963/) in Upper Brailes.

BOTW Lacons Legacy