Beer of the Week (w/e 11th March 2018)

[ROBCamra]

Komakino: Clarkshaw's White Out!
Mobyduck: Dark Star American Pale Ale
Bucking Fastard: XT Animal Panda
Thuck Phat: Rebellion Roasted Nuts
oldboots: Half Moon Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
aleandhearty: North Riding Citra
Wittenden: Rother Valley Black Ops
ROBCamra: Blackjack You Bet

[Komakino]

London, NW1 & W1:

Young's Bitter (3.7%)
Sambrook's Wandle (3.8%)
Clarkshaw's White Out! (4.1%)*
Caledonian Over The Bar (4.2%)
Purity Mad Goose (4.2%)
XT 3 (4.2%) (bottle)
Signature Brew Roadie (4.3%) (can)
Timothy Taylor Landlord (4.3%)
Truman's Zephyr (4.4%)*
Adnam's Ghost Ship (4.5%)
Animal (XT) Gribbit (4.6%)*
Maltsmith's IPA (4.6%) (keg)
Thornbridge Ena (4.6%) (keg)
Hammerton N7 (5.2%)

Slim pickings this week and the default winner is something I'd never tried before, but this hoppy IPA was in great shape, taken at The Earl of Camden (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/54348/):

BOTW: Clarkshaw's White Out!

[Mobyduck]

A very compact list this week.
Dark Star American Pale Ale
Purity Pure Gold
Flowerpots Peridge Pale
Hopback GFB
Meantime London Pale Ale

The easy winner is Dark Star American Pale Ale , taken on quiz night in The Crooked Billet (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/59666/).

[Bucking Fastard]

Kirtlington,Oxford and N7.

Rebellion -- Roasted Nuts *
Rebellion -- Smugglers
Burning Sky -- Plateau
XT -- 13
Animal (XT) -- Panda *
Siren -- Broken Dream Breakfast Stout
Shiny -- New World
Mondo -- Dennis Hopp'r IPA * (keg)
Cronx -- Yallah Mild

BOTW was Animal (XT) Panda in decent form in The St Aldates Tavern (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/31676/) during a short and disappointing crawl around Oxford.


Next week taking it easy before Brighton.

[Thuck Phat]

The odd duplicate from above here:

Rebellion Roasted Nuts*
Beavertown Gamma Ray (keg)
XT 13 Pacific Red
Animal Panda*
Siren Broken Dream
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

BOTW Rebellion Roasted Nuts. Deep brown, nicely balanced and bitter enough to suggest another which gave it a solid pass of the three pint test.

[oldboots]

Not many beers taken this week but this was easily the best Half Moon Charlie & the Chocolate Factory a chocolate MILD.

[aleandhearty]

Pretty quiet week for me, also.

Vocation - Life & Death.
Ilkley - Fireside.*
Empire - White Lion.
Magpie - Raven.*
North Riding - Citra.*
Ainsty - Angel.
Phoenix - Monkeytown Mild.
Nogne O - IPA. (bottle)

The L&D (BOTW, last week) was a little more subdued in this week's sample, so it paved the way for the Citra to take the honours (again).

[Wittenden]

East Sussex

Rother Valley-Black Ops 3.8%abv:A 'Black Pale Ale'.Hop-forward, not roasty.Black currants.An excellent beer from a brewery I've long felt to be under appreciated.
Old Dairy-Uber Brew 3.8%abv:Straw.Grassy hops.Yum.
Holler Boys-Beast of Bevendean 4.3%abv.This iteration is a rye red ale on cask dispense.Not really to my taste.
My BOTW-Black Ops. All taken at The Ypres Castle Inn (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/11105/) , currently owned by Jeffrey Bell,aka Stonch,the (?) original beer blogger.

[ROBCamra]

Blackjack You Bet 4%. Rob at Blackjack brews this occasionally to use up bags of hops.

No idea what he put in this latest version, but it was very good in The Baum. :cheers: