Beer of the Week (w/e 24th June 2018)

[ROBCamra]

ROBCamra: Estrella or something similar

[Wittenden]

Kent
Boutilliers-Happiness Patrol:4.8%abv-Burnished pale ale.Summer fruit,nettley hops.Steel in the backbone. Styrian Wolf hops.(No, me neither.)A new beer from another Faversham Brewery.

[Bucking Fastard]

Hertford and Muswell Hill.

Mc Mullens -- Country Bitter
Redemption -- Little Chief *
Tring -- Fanny Ebbs
Titanic -- Iceberg
Adnams -- Ghost Ship
Camden -- Pale (keg)
St Austell -- Liquid Sunshine *


Easy winner of BOTW,Redemption Little Chief .A dialled down version of Big Chief but still bursting with hops,thirst quenching on a sweaty evening in the ever reliable Old Cross Tavern.
(http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55450/)
Next week boating through Northamptonshire,quitting the Oxford Canal for the first time in 7 months.

[Thuck Phat]

Another disappointingly quiet week with Hop Back Summer Lightening taking the honours.

[trainman]

No pub visits.
At home: Brewdog Clockwork Tangerine. 660ml bottle, Ocado £3

[Spinko]

Acorn - Summer Pale. Had 1.5pints in The Taps, Lytham.

[Mobyduck]

Not a great week,
Purple Moose Madogs Ale
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Goff's Lancer
Hop Back GFB
Timothy Taylor Knowle Spring

Best of the bunch was the Perridge in the Waggon & Horses (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/59679/)

[oldboots]

A dexcent week for a change;

Bad Co - Limelight
Vocation - Bread & Butter
Saltaire - Blonde
Harrogate - Beeching Axe
Shiney - Strong Dark Mild
Turning Point - Lucid Dream
Theakstons - XB
Broughton - Hopopotamus
Mordue - Workie Ticket
Fyne - Vital Spark
Thornbridge - Jaipur
Elland - 1872 Porter
Sarah Hughes - Ruby Mild
Acorn - Old Moor Porter

not the obvious this time the Elland - 1872 Porter was just a little bit nicer.

[Aqualung]

A stay in Cornwall gave this :-



Penzance Crowlas Bitter 3.6%
Harbour Tombstone 3.8%
Skinners GTA 3.8%
St Austell Tribute 4.0%
Sharps Doom Bore 4.0%
Penzance Potion No 9 4.0%
Penzance Crows An Wra 4.3%
Penzance Brisons Bitter 4.5%
Rudgate Ruby Mild 4.5%
Young's Special 4.5%
St Austell Proper Job 4.5%
Tintagel Poldark Ale 4.5%
Millrown Black Jack Stout 4.5%
Skinners Porthleven 4.8%
Dartmoor Jail Ale 4.8%
South Hams Pandemonium 5.0%
St Austell HSD 5.0%
Cornish Crown Red IPA 5.9%
Oakham Green Devil (keg) 6.0%
Penzance Lamorna Gold 6.0%

The east winner is the Cornish Crown Red IPA as tried in the Penzance Crown for £4.00.


BOTW Cornish Crown Red IPA

[Real Ale Ray]

Rock the Boat - Yellow Submarine very quaffable pale ale in Corner Post (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/83480/)