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

[ROBCamra]

Wittenden: Goacher's House Ale
Mobyduck: Pig & Porter Fatal Flaw
Bucking Fastard: Titanic Plum Porter Grand Reserve
Aqualung: Holden's Special
Spinko: Titanic Iceberg
hondo: XT Animal Hippo
aleandhearty: Wantsum Black Prince
Thuck Phat: Brew York Imperial Tonkoko Stout
Real Ale Ray: Squawk Oat Pale
ROBCamra: Mad Dog Brewing Co Third Eye Blind

[Wittenden]

Kent

Goacher's House Ale 3.8%abv, badged as Oxney Ale in The Ferry Inn (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/52980/) Mid Kent earthy goodness, my BOTW.

[Mobyduck]

Dark Star Hophead
Purity Pure Gold
Trumans Lazurus
Tim Taylors Golden Best
Lagunitas Daytime (bottle)
Lagunitas IPA (bottle)
Flowerpots Autumn Blaze
Exmoor Gold
Moor Nor Hop
Clarkeshaws Gorgons Alive
BrewDog Dead Pony Club
BrewDog Jet Black Heart
Bath Forest Hare
Redemption Rock The Kazbek
Camden Pale
Howling Hops Riding Ale
Pig & Porter Fatal Flaw
Marble Pint
Great Heck Navigator
Siren Cookie Dough
Adnams Mosaic

BOTW is Pig & Porter Fatal Flaw supped in The Craft Beer Co (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23323/) , Old Street. The beer was better than the pub.

[Bucking Fastard]

A big week,Borough High Street,Stockport and Croydon.

St Austell -- Proper Job *
Hackney -- American Pale Ale
Harvey's -- Old Ale *
Bloomsbury -- London Porter
St Austell -- Nicholsons Pale Ale
Saltaire -- Cascadian Black
Samuel Smith -- Old Brewery Bitter
Robinsons -- Unicorn
Remedy -- Oatmeal Stout *
Titanic -- Plum Porter Grand Reserve *
Rossendale -- Floral Dance *
Hawkeshead -- Windemere Pale *
Fool Hardy -- Riddle
Liverpool Organic -- Cambrinus Deliverance
Magic Rock -- Hire Wire *
Oakham -- Inferno *
Oakham -- Moon Landing
Hafod -- Big Red
Robinsons -- Dizzy Blonde
Burning Sky -- Aurora *
Saltaire -- Deccenial *
Saltaire -- Cascade Pale *
Camden -- Pale (keg)

Some great contenders,but the winner of BOTW was Titanic Plum Porter Grand Reserve in the unexpected surroundings of the Bakers Vaults (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/53489/)

Next week annual pilgrimage to the Old Fountain ,and more footie.

[Aqualung]

A fairly modest week for me, not helped by a shocking choice of cask in the Wanstead George.


Holden's Black Country Mild 3.7%
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.8%
Salcombe Devon Amber 3.8%
Green Duck Duck Blonde 4.2%
Kinver Land Army 4.3%
Corvedale Pax Ale 4.5%
Rowton Total Eclipse 4.8%
Otter Pale Ale 4.9%
Hanlons Stormstay 5.0%
Teignworthy Climate Change 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Rowton Area 51 5.1%
Otter Head 5.8%
New Brew New India 6.0%
Exe Valley Winter Glow 6.0%


Nothing really outstanding there but the Holden's Special at the Codsall Station was superb. I can't understand why they dropped it from the 2018 GBG yet left in that stupid Firs Club.


BOTW Holden's Special

[Spinko]

Titanic - Iceberg. In Manchester's Paramount Wetherspoons.

[hondo]

Animal - Hippo

[aleandhearty]

Disappointed to miss out on Stockport, but a last minute trip to Otley, on Saturday, offered some consolation. Quite a few new beers tried.

North Riding - US Session IPA v25.*
Chin Chin - Alone in the Dark.
Horbury - JFB Mosaic.
Fraoch - Heather Ale.
Wantsum - Black Prince.*
Rudgate - Brew 37 Maple Rye.
Red Willow - Heartless.
Wishbone - Waitomo.
Stancill - Secret Potion.
Saltaire - Hazelnut Coffee Porter.
Saltaire - Stout No5.
Marble - Pint.*
Briscoes - Otley Gold.
Wild Weather - Beyond the Pale.*
Naylors - Black & Tan.
Hill Top - IPA.

Mild is a much maligned style, but when it's done well it's very good indeed. I thought the Black Prince had a lovely richness for a 3.9% beer. Sampled in one of my favourite pubs, The Old Cock (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/71313/), Otley.

[Thuck Phat]

A trip to York enhanced the week significantly:

Bad Seed Sobremesa*
TT Landlord*
Brew York American Pale Ale
Brew York Imperial Tonkoko Stout (keg)*
Howling Hops XX
Vocation Life and Death*
Abbeydale Methuselah
Bad Seed IPA
Thornbridge Highcliffe*
Deya Sunglasses Indoors (keg)*
Brew York Thors Thunder
Sonnet 43 Athenaeum
Saltaire Blackberry Cascade*
Bad Seed Melissa's Wit
Wild Beer Rooting Around*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

Some lovely beers there all of which proved yet again what a great City York is for a drop.
BOTW Brew York Imperial Tonkoko Stout (keg). Dark, rich, strong and gently coconutty. A warm velvet blanket of a drink on a chilly evening.

[Real Ale Ray]

Squawk - Oat Pale in Remedy (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/84122/)

The Plum Porter Grand Reserve a very close second

[ROBCamra]

Mad Dog Brewing Co Third Eye Blind. A 3.8% session ale tried quite a lot in The Baum. :cheers: