Beer of the Week (w/e 18th March 2018)

[ROBCamra]

Bucking Fastard: Fullers "Gales" Spring Sprinter
Wittenden: Kent Jester
Mobyduck: BrewDog Native Son
aleandhearty: North Riding Mosaic
oldboots: Phoenix Monkeytown Mild
Spinko: Bank Top Port o' Call
Thuck Phat: Rat Coffin Rat
ROBCamra: Northern Whisper Chinwag

[Bucking Fastard]

A very quiet week.

Mc Mullens -- Country Bitter
Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Brewing Achilles

and BOTW Fullers -- "Gales" Spring Sprinter on decent form in The Telegraph (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23397/)


Next week a brief voyage to Jericho (Oxford) before the Brighton onslaught. Hoping for lots of contenders.

[Wittenden]

Kent

Kent Brewery: Jester-The New Local 4.5%abv. Barley straw.I don't often use citrus as a descriptor,but it fits the bill here.Blackcurrants on the finish.Profits from this beer are financing the production of a documentary film about Micropubs.I'd say a definite shoe-in for next year's Oscars.My BOTW
Greene King : IPA 3.6%abv. Drunk without prejudice.Inoffensively old school.

[Mobyduck]

Another restrained week,
Purity Pure Gold Hopback GFB
Lagunitas IPA (bottle)
Lagunitas Daytime (bottle)
BrewDog Jet Black Heart
BrewDog Native Son
Howling Hops Riding Ale
Dark Star Cocoa Nut

I am torn between the Cocoa Nut and the Native Son, both new beers for me, BrewDog Native Son edges it taken in the new BrewDog Reading. (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/73064/)

[aleandhearty]

Another quiet week for me.

Electric Bear - Mochachocolata Ya Ya.
Wilde Child - Ekuanot.
York - Severus.
North Riding - Mosaic.*
Ulverston - Fra Diavolo.*
Five Towns - Hello Spaceboy.
Dark Star - Pale Ale.
Kelham Island - I Want That One.

The Mosaic was the easy winner, in what was a fairly run of the mill bunch.

[oldboots]

Restrained and quiet this week (again), I should more than make up for it next week in Brighton,


Helmsley - Striding the Riding
Wensleydale - Gamekeeper
Taylors - Landlord
Acorn - Barnsley Bitter
Pheonix - Monkeytown Mild
Cwrw Ial - Kia Kaha
Small World - Long Moor Pale
Alchemy Ten Storey Malt Bomb
Small World - Thunderbridge Stout
North Riding - Citra Pale
Kirkstall - Black Rose

Apart from a couple all good but BOTW is Pheonix - Monkeytown Mild sampled at the West Riding Licensed Refreshment Rooms in Dewsbury

1572

[Spinko]

Bank Top - Port o' Call. In st Anne's wetherspoons.

[Thuck Phat]

Not bad:

Bedlam Smash
XT 13 Pacific Red*
Gun Brewery Milk Stout
Silver Street Porter*
Blue Monkey Infinity*
Rat Coffin Rat*

It was between the very well kept XT 13, Silver Street Porter and Infinity until I bumped into BOTW Rat Coffin Rat.
An amber colour with a gently malty front followed by plenty of low key hops. Three pints duely sunk.

[ROBCamra]

Northern Whisper Chinwag. A 5.6% IPA that is dangerously drinkable for its strength.

Sampled in The Baum. :cheers: