Beer of the Week (w/e 25th November 2018)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Spinko]

Great Heck - Blonde.

Passed the seven pint test in the Iron Stone Miner, Guisborough, on Friday.

[Wittenden]

Kent:Thin-looks as if the rest of the year will be too.

Goacher's-Crown Imperial Stout 4.5%abv: Delicious earthy, roasty , chocolatey Tovil goodness.

[Thuck Phat]

A reasonable week:

Langton Thomas Lift
Titanic Plum Porter*
Salopian The Bends*
Dog House New England IPA*
Dog House Cappuccino Stout*
Millstone True Grit
Oakham Bishops Farwell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*

Some good beers in there but BOTW Salopian The Bends stood out. A 5.2% tropical IPA - right up my rue.

[oldboots]

Not too bad, helped along by the Otley Beer Festival

Rat - Ratmospheric
Ilkley - Joshua Jane
Thornbridge - Jaipur
Five Towns - Hello Space Boy
Salt - Jute
Crooked - Spokes
Tetley - No 3
Nightjar - Lucy in the Rye with Diamonds
Settle - Blackthorn Sloe Porter
Daleside - Morocco Ale
Bridgehouse - Baltic Rum Porter
Wilde Childe - The Italian Job
Arbor - Why Kick a Moo Cow
Small World - Long Moor Pale
Old Mill - Blonde Bombshell
Pennine - Progress Stout
Horbury - Tiramisu
Ilkley - Gregory Porter


dark beer again: Wilde Childe - The Italian Job (tiramsu milkshake stout 6%)

[Bucking Fastard]

Boating around the South Midlands,some good sessions.

Great Oakley -- Delapre Dark
Titanic -- Plum Porter * (>3PT :nishelypished:)
Salopian -- The Bends *
Doghouse -- New England IPA *
Doghouse -- Cappuccino Stout *
Millstone -- True Grit *
Oakham -- Bishops Farewell *
Little Eaton -- Bates Pale Ale *
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Marston's -- Bass
XT (Animal) -- Hop Kitty *(3PT)

The Bends has already had a nomination and it was great,and Plum Porter get's enough accolades so BOTW was Doghouse New England IPA,a complex brew with a lot going on during their tap takeover of the Crafty Banker (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/86389/).

Next week end month sessions topped off by footie.

[Aqualung]

Not a bad week with all of these tried in South Wales


Brain's Dark 3.5%
Brain's Bitter 3.7%
Pilot Revolver 4.0%
Brain's Rev James Gold 4.1%
Pilot Gold 4.4%
Pilot Black Storm 4.5%
GWB Gimme Smoke 4.5%
Tenby Hang Ten 4.6%
VOG Flying Hellfish 4.6%
Tiny Rebel Espresso 4.6%
Tiny Rebel Cwtch 4.6%
Brain's Bragging Rights 5.0%
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft 5.2%
Elgood's Greyhound 5.2%
Crafty Devil Cry Baby (keg) 5.3%
Hopcraft Pub Crawl Brawl 5.5%
Marston's Old Empire 5.7%
Crafty Devil Feed My Frankenstein (keg) 6.5%
Abbeydale Black Mass 6.66%


However, the winner is from England and goes back to Abbeydale's earliest days when their beers all had a name with a religious theme. I've only come across Black Mass a few times and in Cardiff's Head Of Steam it had very little sweetness but was expensive at £4.60.


BOTW Abbeydale Black Mass

[Tris39]

Oakham Scarlet Macaw and Bad Seed Citra Pale Ale at the Craft Beer Co (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/54009/) - both new to me, the Scarlet Macaw probably being the favoured of the two.

[Mobyduck]

Steady,

Brains (Craft Brewery) Cafe Phoenix
Timothy Taylor Landlord*
Dark Star Hophead
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
Salopian Oracle
Hattie Browns Moonlite*
Powderkeg PK IPA*
Oakham Citra*
Tring Side Pocket For Toad*
Three Castles White Knight
Sandiway Ales Klunkerz*

Some really nice beers this past week and several really nice pubs, not least The Square And Compass (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/56088/) and The Wonston Arms (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/14200/) both on Saturday. BOTW is a new one for me , a Devonshire beer taken in Dorset, Powderkeg PK IPA, at 6.0% the strongest of the week and very flavoursome.

[Millay]

Last week's highlights,

Windsor & Eton - Roast Chestnut
Windsor & Eton - Canberra
Adnams - Ghost Ship
Wychwood - Hobgoblin Gold
3 Brewers - Special English Ale
3 Brewers - Ruby
Leighton Buzzard - Black Buzzard
Leighton Buzzard - Cuckoo
Sadler's - Thin Ice
Bootleg Brewing Co - Chorlton Pale Ale

BotW goes to the Black Buzzard, a nice tasty porter.