Beer of the Week (w/e 23rd April 2017)

[ROBCamra]

Mobyduck: Siren Acid Jam
Aqualung: Little Critters Hazelnut Milk Stout
Wittenden: Mobberley Brewhouse Boom Juice
Bucking Fastard: Tring Pale + Four
aleandhearty: Fernandes Two Brewers
london calling: Wiper and True IPA
sheffield hatter: Hobsons Best
Real Ale Ray: Shiny Disco Balls
ROBCamra: Slightly Foxed 21st Century Fox

[Mobyduck]

Another quite decent week Including London on Friday and Southampton today.
Purity Pure Gold
White Horse Oxford Blue
Dark Star Art Of Darkness
Dark Star Sunburst
Thornbridge Pollards
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA
By The Horns Mick The Miller
By The Horns Hop Air Ballon
Black Wolf Florida Black
Trumans Swift
Trumans Zephyr
Siren Acid Jam
London Beer Factory Chelsea Blonde
Youngs Hummingbird
Hopback Cropcircle
Flowerpots Goodens Gold
St Austell Tribute
Wild Weather Peach of a Weekend
Vibrant Forrest Summit
Bridestone Sandstone
Stella

No doubt about the winner
Siren Acid Jam, another bourbon aged keg beer, this time a sour and hellishly expensive, but a great beer all the same.

[Aqualung]

Another quite decent week Including London on Friday and Southampton today.


Did you not get to the new JDW (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/13857/) at Bitterne? Shurely that would have been a priority?

[Aqualung]

A pretty pathetic list for me due to going to two isolated Spoons and (partly) going down with a cold on a visit to Notts.



Rudgate Patriot Pale 3.6%
RCH Goldbine 3.8%
Pheasantry Red Rye 4.6%
Stonehenge Great Bustard 4.8%
Jenning's Snecklifter 5.1%
Castle Rock Screech Owl 5.5%
Black Sheep Riggwelter 5.9%
Oakham Green Devil (Bottle) 6.0%
Little Critters Hazelnut Milk Stout 6.0%
Little Critters C Monster 6.5%


I'm going for the Little Critters Hazelnut Milk Stout which wouldn't suit many people as it was confectionery in a glass. I don't think I could manage three unless it involved a substantial wager.

BOTW Little Critters Hazelnut Milk Stout

[Wittenden]

Kent:the sole beer taken on licenced premises is a still worthy, if somewhat unlikely BOTW-Mobberley Brewhouse Boom Juice 3.8%abv. A tropical pale ale-Kiwi hops innit?-Stone fruit and raspberries, followed by a long bitter finish.Light gold in colour.Not entirely to my taste, but I can see the attraction.

[Mobyduck]

Did you not get to the new JDW (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/13857/) at Bitterne? Shurely that would have been a priority?

I somehow missed that one.

[Bucking Fastard]

A minimal week in Hertford.

Greene King -- Abbott
3 Brewers -- IPA
Tring -- Pale + Four *
Mighty Oak -- Slayers Ale

BOTW goes to Tring Pale + Four ,lots of American hops and plenty of flavour ,on good form in The Old Cross Tavern.


Next week a bit of boating in The East Midlands,then a session in The Wenlock.

[aleandhearty]

Just a Friday teatime session, this week.

Small World - Long Moor Pale.
Small World - Thunderbridge Stout.*
Fernandes - Two Brewers.*
Acorn - Zeus IPA.
Fernandes - Summit.
Fernandes - Blue Lady.
Ossett - Dragon Bones.

I enjoyed the stout, but for sheer drinkability the Two Brewers was the easy winner. Another pale and hoppy 'un from Fernandes.

[london calling]

eight arch -parabolic
Neptune-fugo
Neptune -undercurrent
crate -rye
w+e ton -red rye
canopy -supine
arbor -I speak for the trees
I also had 5 ipa,s
2 from Lost and Grounded that i forgot to write down
eight arch -corbel ipa
burning soul -oct ipa
and the BOTW
wiper and True -ipa 6.2 in Look Mum No Hands Old St

[sheffield hatter]

A few days last week cycling in the Welsh Marches (Hereford and Salop), drinking mostly local beers;

Ludlow Gold 4%
Hobsons Best 3.8%
Wye Valley Bitter 3.7%
Ludlow Best 3.7%
Woods Shropshire Lad 4.5%
Goffs Lancer 3.8% (pretty poor, but comes from Gloucestershire)
Arrow Bitter 4% (only available here (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14290/), where it's brewed)
Otter Pale Ale 4.9%
Hobsons Town Crier 4.5%
Hobsons Dark Mild 3.2%
Swan Armbreaker 6%
Ludlow Boiling Well 4.7%
Joules Slumbering Monk 4.5%
Ludlow Black Knight 4.5%
Hobsons Shropshire Stout 4.3%
Three Tuns Pale 4.3%
Six Bells Ow Do? 4%
Clun Pale Ale 4.1%
Three Tuns Clerics Cure 5%
Three Tuns Mild 3.4%
Lancaster English Pale Ale 4.6%

Only about two or three beers that I didn't enjoy, and only one that I can recall being in not good condition (Three Tuns Pale at a country pub (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/31989/) a few miles from the brewery).

The odd man out was the Lancaster beer, with just time for a swift half between trains in Stockport at the Petersgate Tap (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/84579/). A very nice beer hopped with Bramling Cross, Challenger and Golding. Very more-ish, and any other week would have been the clear winner.

Beer of the week though was the Hobsons Best in the Crown, Clunton (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55310/). I was only going to have a half, but it was so good I had another. (That's the only downside to cycling, beer-wise - drinking only halves and limited to one per stop. Luckily I was only two miles from my destination so was able to treat myself!)

[Real Ale Ray]

Shiny Brewery - Disco Balls in Roots Emporium (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/84993/)

[ROBCamra]

Slightly Foxed 21st Century Fox. 4.8% of hoppy lovliness. Tried in The Baum.:cheers: