Beer of the Week (w/e 16th July 2017)

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: Musket Ball Puller
Mobyduck: Roosters Twenty Four Seven
Aqualung: Acorn Fiesta
Real Ale Ray: Credence Mosaic
london calling: Fuerst Wiacek German Movies
aleandhearty: Fernandes Malt Shovel Mild
Oggwyn Trench: Ludlow Stairway
Thuck Phat: Five Towns Moss Garden
Bucking Fastard: Marble Dobber
ROBCamra: Pig & Porter Eye Contact

[Wittenden]

Kent

Musket-Ball Puller 4%abv:old school best bitter.Slight smokiness to start, then hedge fruit and long dry finish.Grew on me.
Gadds' No 7 3.8%abv: Getting towards the end of the barrel unfortunately.
Old Dairy Summer Top 3.6% abv:fruity session pale.
My BOTW-Musket 'Ball Puller'.

[Mobyduck]

Corfu Beer IPA*
Corfu Beer Ionian Pilsner
Purity Pure Gold
Triple fff Moondance
Howling Hops Pale*
Bad Seed Aussie Pale
Dark Star Not Into Yoga*
Roosters Twenty Four Seven*
Alchemy Ritual Pale

BOTW is Roosters Twenty Four Seven.

[london calling]

I cant help noticing the bloody brilliant Corfu -ipa seems to have paled now you are in the land of reality. Had the Roosters last week £2.00 a pint in Craft beer co.Was good.

[london calling]

Kent

Musket-Ball Puller 4%abv:old school best bitter.Slight smokiness to start, then hedge fruit and long dry finish.Grew on me.
Gadds' No 7 3.8%abv: Getting towards the end of the barrel unfortunately.
Old Dairy Summer Top 3.6% abv:fruity session pale.
My BOTW-Musket 'Ball Puller'.
Have you been on a pub crawl this week?

[Mobyduck]

I cant help noticing the bloody brilliant Corfu -ipa seems to have paled now you are in the land of reality. Had the Roosters last week £2.00 a pint in Craft beer co.Was good.

No hasn't paled and is still brilliant, didn't want to nominate twice in a row, the Roosters was good though, £3.60 in the Nags Head Reading.

[Wittenden]

Have you been on a pub crawl this week?

No,that was in June...

[Aqualung]

A stay in the North West rampaging around JDWs would have given a better list but for the Spoons Cider Festival.

Conwy Clogwyn Gold 3.8%
Peerless Triple Blond 4.1%
Phoenix Black Bee 4.5%
Beartown Bearly Literate 4.5%
Phoenix White Monk 4.5%
Acorn Fiesta 4.5%
Oakham Bishop's Farewell 4.6%
Titanic White Star 4.5%
Phoenix Sticky Wicket 4.7%
Robinsons Double Hop 4.8%
Peerless El Dorado 4.8%
Acorn Ultra IPA 5.0%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Phoenix Wobbly Bob 6.0%
Oakham Green Devil (Bottle) 6.0%


I'm going for the Acorn Fiesta as tried in the Star opposite Glossop Station for £3.30.
As for the ciders, I'm just missing number 8 from Cornwall. I thought it was a poor festival this year with fewer and mainly weaker, sweetish ciders. It looks like it's going in the same direction as there twice yearly beer festivals.


BOTW Acorn Fiesta

[Real Ale Ray]

Credence Brewery - Mosaic only 3.6%, but full of flavour, from a brewery new to me in Northumberland, in The Dog & Rabbit (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/84335/)

[london calling]

torrside -I am curious lemon
torrside stout
heavy industry-freak chick
spey valley -spey stout
block -Anzac mild
mad cat-blueberry elderberry stout
dark star -lager
dark star -tropical ko
dark star-not into yoga
north riding -aussie
arbor -the devil made me do it
heavy industry -high voltage
thornbridge - black harry
pressure drop -quebec syrup heist
wishbone -volk
wishbone -pacific gem
raw -fletcher stout
stancill -black
longarm -cookie stout
longarm -black lager
great heck -cascade
three sods-trade union pale
badseed -mandarina Bavaria pale
badseed chucklehead
steam machine -west coast
twisted barrel -gods twisted sister
oddessey -the occult
all those British beers and the BOTW is German
fuerst wiacek -german movies 6.2 great murky tropical fruity ipa at the Hop Locker Southbank

[aleandhearty]

Decent week for me, which included a very enjoyable night out with Cap'n BF, Thuck Phat and crew, on the Wakefield leg of their Northern Real Ale Powerhouse Tour.

Naylors - Dusk.
Blue Square - Abyss.*
Acorn - Fiesta.*
Bradford - Northern Soul.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Turning Point - Rising Tide.
Eyes - Lecker Weisse.
Oakham - Citra.*
Rat - Number of the Rat.
Ilkley - Summer.*
Five Towns - Moss Garden.
North Riding - US Session IPA v23.*
Tigertops - Hopsmith.

A very high standard this week, with plenty of contenders. However, as I seem to have chosen a raft of pale beers recently, I'm going with an old favourite, the MSM, which was fresh as a daisy at the Fernandes Tap.

[Oggwyn Trench]

Quiet this week

Brunswick - White Feather
Hop n Stagger - Lovin Summer
Hop n Stagger - Golden Wander
Purple Moose - Snowdonia Ale
Ludlow - Stairway
Windswept - Blonde
Abbeydale - Triple C

BOTW Ludlow - Stairway

[Thuck Phat]

Decent week for me, which included a very enjoyable night out with Cap'n BF, Thuck Phat and crew, on the Wakefield leg of their Northern Real Ale Powerhouse Tour.


Thank you for your guidance around your splendid hometown. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with excellent beer and great company.

Best week for a very long while:
Slaters Haka
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Rat Raturday Night Fever*
Thornbridge Chiron (keg)
Bad Co Love Over Gold
Saltaire Cascadian Black*
Great Heck Black Jesus*
Roosters Yankee*
Thornbridge Crackendale*
Fernandes Pekko*
Great Heck Patrick
VOG Dark Matter
Tigertops Hop Smith*
Five Towns Moss Garden*
Rat White Rat
Mallinsons Nelson Sauvin
Squawk Mosaic IPA*
Rat King Rat*
Dark Star Not into Yoga*
Marble Dobber*

Some tremendous beers there and confirmation that Yorkshire remains t̶h̶e̶ a centre of beer excellence.
BOTW Five Towns Moss Garden. A very tricky choice but this pale, 5.5%er flew down in its own hometown.

[Bucking Fastard]

A very late submission ,mainly Leeds,Wakefield (thanks a&h ) and Huddersfield.

Mc Mullens -- Country Bitter
360 Degree -- American Pale Ale
Tring -- Mansion Mild
Rat -- Raturday Night Fever *
Beavertown -- Neck Oil (keg)
Harbour Brewing -- Relax
Saltaire -- Cascadian Black *
Magic Rock -- High Wire (keg)
Kirkstall -- Pale
Roosters -- Yankee
Thornbridge -- Crackendale *
Ringwood -- Circadian IPA
Fernandes -- Pekko *
Shiny -- 4 Wood
Oakham -- Citra *
Rat -- White Rat *
Five Towns -- Moss Garden *
North Riding -- US Session IPA *
Great Heck -- Voodoo Mild
Mallinsons -- Wappy Nick *
Squawk -- Mosaic IPA *
Rat -- King Rat *
Marble -- Pint *
Marble -- Dobber *

Some outstanding beers among that lot,BOTW goes to Marble Dobber,now dialled up to 6.4 % and on top form from the unbelievable Grove. (www.pubsgalore.co/uk/pubs/40654/)

[ROBCamra]

Pig & Porter Eye Contact. A very pleasant, hoppy 4.2%er made with Simcoe hops.

Tried in The Baum. :cheers: