Beer of the Week (w/e 22nd October 2017)

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: Tonbridge American Pale
Real Ale Ray: Salopian Kashmir
Bucking Fastard: Mc Mullens Rivertown Brewing Illustrious
Mobyduck: St Austell Proper Job
Aqualung: Neepsend Citra IPA
Komakino: Saltaire Triple Chocoholic
hondo: Moor Beer So’Hop
Spinko: Squawk Pale Ale
oldboots: Northern Monk Eternal
aleandhearty: Great Heck Shankar IPA
london calling: Reunion Vanilla Black IPA
Thuck Phat: Hop Back Summer Lightening
ROBCanra: Neepsend Maia

[Wittenden]

Kent
Westerham-Scotney Green Hop 4%abv:Hmmm. Green Hops, Green Apples. A fresh cask,but I wasn't sure.Grew on me, though.
Tonbridge-American Pale 5%abv: This has much improved since I first tried it.Succulent, oily hops.Hint of that trademark farmyard ethos.
Old Dairy-Copper Top 4.1%abv: Decent rustic nutty dark bitter.
My BOTW-Tonbridge American Pale, taken at Larkins' Alehouse (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/85780/)

[Real Ale Ray]

Salopian - Kashmir

[Bucking Fastard]

Only got out once:o ,quizzing ,and had by default BOTW Mc Mullens Rivertown Brewing Illustrious besides AK in The Hare,Harlow.

Next week boating to Atherstone and a trip for an Oakham fix in The Mansion House should make the week more respectable.

[Mobyduck]

Managed to scrape a few beers together here and there.
Purity Pure Gold
Salopian Shropshire Gold
Adnams Ghostship
Youngs Bitter
St Austell Proper Job
Goose IPA (bottle)

St Austell Proper Job is BOTW

[Aqualung]

Most of these are Spoons festival beers :-

Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.8%
Theakstons Pink Grapefruit Ale 3.9%
Hogs Back Farnham White 4.0%
Rudgate Green Hop Monster 4.0%
Roosters Pistol River 4.0%
Maxim Azacca 4.3%
Vocation Search & Rescue 4.5%
Charles Wells Banana Bread Beer 4.5%
Greene King Old Nutty Hen 4.5%
Holden's Castle Class 4.6%
Yorkshire Dales (?) North Grain 4.7%
Brewsters Seventh Heaven 4.7%
Adnams Younh Henrys Newtowner 4.8%
Hook Norton Haymaker 5.0%
Titanic Red Indian Pale Ale 5.0%
Truman's Dark Side Of The Moon 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Vale Steampunk 5.1%
Inveralmond Diracha 5.2%
Castle Rock Autumn Daze 5.3%
Neepsend Citra IPA 5.3%
Caledonian Trojan Horse 5.5%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Banks's Arcadia Autumn Wheat 6.0%
Adnams Tally Ho 7.2%


The easy winner is the Neepsend Citra IPA as tried for an expensive £4.20 at the Little Ale House (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/84175/) in expensive Harrogate. I should mention the Theeakston Grapefruit one which I thought worked well and wasn't pink.


BOTW Neepsend Citra IPA

[Komakino]

London and various odds and sods:

Old Dairy Green Hop (4.0%)
Fuller's London Pride (4.1%)
Rebellion Engineer (4.2%)
Fuller's Red Fox (4.3%)
Meantime London Pale Ale (keg) (4.3%)
Timothy Taylor Landlord (4.3%)
Ascot Dark Horse (4.5%)
Birrificio del Ducato California Sun (4.5%) (keg)
Hop Stuff Mjango Unchained (4.5%)
Sambrook Battersea Rye (4.5%)
Wimbledon Tower (4.5%)
XT 15 (4.5%)*
XT 17 (4.5%)
Animal (XT) Manta Ray (4.6%)
Fuller's HSB (4.8%)
Saltaire Triple Chocoholic (4.8%)*
Kent Dark Horse (4.9%)
Reunion Incredible (5.0%)
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft (5.2%) (keg)
Fuller's ESB (5.5%)
Tiny Rebel Cali (5.6%) (keg)
Wild Beer Incognito (5.7%) (keg)
Broken Dream Breakfast Stout (6.5%)
Beavertown Beaverillium (7.5%) (keg)
Cloudwater Eqkanot DIPA (9.0%) (keg)

A clear winner this week:

BOTW: Saltaire Triple Chocoholic

[hondo]

Moor Beer Company- So’Hop

[Spinko]

Squawk Pale Ale.
In Knott Bar, Deansgate.

[oldboots]

Northern Monk Eternal

[aleandhearty]

Just a Friday teatime session, this week.

Castle Rock - Session IPA.
Rat - Ilkla Moor Baht Rat.
Fernandes - China Red.
Abbeydale - Salvation.*
Great Heck - Shankar IPA.*
North Riding - Citra Pale.*
Revolutions - Swoon.
Harveys - Sussex Best Bitter.

Easy winner was the Shankar IPA, a big hitting IPA (5.9%) brewed with lots of American 'C' hops and dry hopped with Columbus, Williamette and Cascade. As an added bonus, the two and a half pints I sampled were pulled by my elder daughter! Unfortunately, she didn't pay for them, but you can't have everything.

[london calling]

Reunion-vanilla black ipa

[Thuck Phat]

Late entry on a thin week:

Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Castle Rock Harvest Pale
BOTW Hop Back Summer Lightening. Not just for Summer.

[ROBCamra]

Neepsend Maia. A 3.*% session pale hopped with Citra & Azacca.

We were a bit short on hoppy beers on the bar last Saturday in The Baum, so I had to get some from the barrel in the cellar. :cheers: