Beer of the Week (w/e 19th March 2017)

[ROBCamra]

Thuck Phat: Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA
Bucking Fastard: Dorset Brewing Co Durdle Door
oldboots: Green Duck Duck & Cover
Mobyduck: Siren Ryesing Tide
Aqualung: Heart Of Wales High As A Kite
hondo: Oakham Citra
aleandhearty: Rat King Rat
london calling: Brewdog Coffee and Cigarettes
Real Ale Ray: Marlpool Scratty Ratty
ROBCamra: Wild Weather Serendipity

[Thuck Phat]

A bizarre week but with one or two fair beers:

Dark Star APA*
Southwark Centennial
Robinsons Magnum IPA
Salopian Torque*
Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA*

BOTW Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA. Delicious marmalade and a real IPA at 6%.

[Bucking Fastard]

Dorset,and not much ale.

Everards -- Old Original *
Piddle Brewery -- Mad Hare
Dorset Brewing Co. -- Durdle Door *

BOTW goes to DBC Durdle Door on very fine form in the White Hart,Yetminster.

Next week the PuG crawl on the 38 bus should produce many good contenders.

[oldboots]

Some cracking beers this week but a winner there must be and it's (just) Green Duck - Duck & Cover (almost every pub in Darlington had at least one beer from this brewery on this week); honourable mentions for Toon Broon and Brew 30.

Rat - White Rat
Goose Eye - Pommies Revenge
Wensleydale - Falconers
Mithril - The Quaker
Green Duck - Duck & Cover
Firebrick - Toon Broon
Loddon - Hocus Pocus
Rudgate - Brew #30
Consett - Black Bob
Camerons - Strongarm
Roundhill - BPA
Bristol Beer Factory - Oatmeal Stout
No18 Yard (Shepherd Neame) - Hog Island
Theakstons - Best
Sarah Hughes - Dark Ruby

[Mobyduck]

Some good stuff and some ordinary stuff.
Ballards Midhurst Mild
Red Cat Scratch
Purity Pure Gold*
Triple fff Moondance
Burning Sky Plateau*
Black Jack Poker Face
Mad Squirrel Sumo*
Siren Ryesing Tide*
Siren Vermont Tea Party*
Big Smoke Underworld Vanilla Stout*
Wimbledon Phoenix*
Almasty Session IPA*
Durham White Gold
Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale*
Truman's Swift

BOTW is Siren Ryesing Tide , given a run for its money by Almasty Session IPA.

[Aqualung]

This week consisted of a journey through Wales and back via Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.

Rowton Moonstruck Mild 3.3%
Heart Of Wales Irfon Valley Bitter 3.5%
Heart Of Wales Aur Cymru 3.8%
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.8%
Derby Hop Till You Drop 3.9%
Green Duck Duck & Cover 4.0%
Heart Of Wales Bitter 4.1%
Glamorgan Welsh Pale 4.1%
Rowton Comet 4.4%
Heart Of Wales Welsh Black 4.4%
Heart Of Wales Cambrian Heart 4.5%
Adnam's Two Brewers Irish Red 4.5%
Burton Bridge Damson Porter 4.5%
Derby Altbier 4.5%
Salopian Lemon Dream 4.5%
Celt Silures 4.6%
Elland Mojo 4.7%
Phoenix Double Gold 5.0%
Butcombe Brunel Atlantic IPA 5.0%
Brecon Red Beacons 5.0%
Cold Black Crib Goch 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Gower Power 5.5%
Battlefield Sabut Jung 5.8%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Oakham Green Devil (Bottle) 6.0%
Heart Of Wales Innstable 6.8%
Heart Of Wales High As A Kite 10.5%

The Duck & Cover I too found to be excellent at £2.90 (discounted) in the Platform Ale House at Albrighton and is the best of the low ABV ones. However, the High As A Kite (£5.00) in the superb Neuadd Arms Hotel (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/45555/) in Llanwrtyd wins it. This was my last pint here and caused much amusement to the Hotel Owner / Landlord / Brewer. It's an old school barley wine though not overpoweringly sweet that is just brewed for the winter months so I was lucky to find it still on.


BOTW Heart Of Wales High As A Kite

[hondo]

oakham - citra

[aleandhearty]

A flying visit to Huddersfield was the basis of this week's bibbing.

Empire - Porter.
Magic Rock - Ringmaster.*
Empire - Jonah.
Wishbone - Bandit.
Copper Dragon - Silver Myst.
Mallinsons - Nelson Sauvin.*
Fernandes - Sixty Shillings Mild.*
Rat - Ratamahatta.
Rat - White Rat.*
Rat - King Rat.*
Rat - Anthrats.*

No prizes for guessing that a good session was had in the ever reliable Rat & Ratchet. The King Rat was the star of the day, but the Sixty Shillings was also very good.

[london calling]

Easy winners this week
Brewdog-coffee and cigarettes 12.1
cost me £6.60 for a third .

[Mobyduck]

Easy winners this week
Brewdog-coffee and cigarettes 12.1
cost me £6.60 for a third .

:eek:

[Real Ale Ray]

Marlpool - Scratty Ratty in https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/79093/ one of the friendliest and wackiest micros I've visited so far. Excellent little place.

[ROBCamra]

Wild Weather Serendipity. A cracking, hoppy, pale 3.9% session ale tried several times in The Baum. :cheers: