Beer of the Week (w/e 9th December 2018)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[oldboots]

A very quiet week, but all high quality

Fyne Ales - Centennial
Harrogate - Cold Bath Gold
Harrogate - Plum Porter
Bingley - Moo Moo
Harrogate - Kursaal
Brass Castle - Bad Kitty


Tough choice but Harrogate - Plum Porter is an old favourite and BOTW

[Mobyduck]

Also a small but well formed list.

Dark Star Green Hopped IPA
Dark Star Hop Head
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Almasty DDH Ekuanot Pale
Siren Suspended in Fog
Kult Rebel
Lytham Lytham Blonde
Navigation Smokin Joe

All good but Dark Star Green Hopped IPA Just edges it from Smokin Joe, both excellent.

[Aqualung]

A week seen chasing the West Midland Xmas ales saw this :-

St Austell Tribute 4.0%
Clouded Minds Luppol 4.2%
Batham's Best 4.3%
Bluestone Hammerstone 4.5%
Revolutions Swoon 4.5%
Titanic White Star 4.5%
Heritage Masterpiece 4.5%
Lymestone Stone Cold 4.7%
Derby Mercia IPA 5.0%
Sarah Hughes Surprise 5.0%
Intrepid Odin 5.1%
Salopian Disintegration 5.1%
Salopian Crosshair (keg) 5.1%
Slater's Haka 5.2%
Fownes King Korvan's Saga 5.4%
Love Lane Double Dry Hopped IPA 6.1%
Batham's XXX 6.3%
Enville Blizzard 6.5%
Titanic Wreckage 7.2%
Holden's Old Ale 7.2%
Sarah Hughes Snowflake 8.0%

The Batham's XXX was the most elusive and found in just one of three Batham houses. They don't brew enough of it!
Perversely the winner is a pale hop bomb the Salopian Disintegration as tried for £3.35 in the excellent Jolly Crispin (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/38337/) in Upper Gornal for £3.35.


BOTW Salopian Disintegration

[Wittenden]

Surrey

Felday-Legacy 3.8%abv.Inoffensive traditional Bitter.Floral notes in the finish.
Felday-Festivity 4.2%abv.Ruby malty Christmas ale.Not really to my taste.
Tillingbourne-Black Troll 3.7%abv. Bible Black roasty,coffeeish Black session pale. My first example of Tillingbourne beers, and a worthy BOTW.

[Thuck Phat]

Bit of interest:

Adnams Ghost Ship*
Oakham Hawse Buckler*
Brancaster Malt House Bitter
Oakham Citra*
Brancaster Brewdolph*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

Bothe Brewdolph and the Hawse Buckler are strong, dark beers which suited both the season and the mood. BOTW Oakham Hawse Buckler.

[aleandhearty]

Quiet week for me, also.

North Riding - US Session Pale v40.*
Saltaire - Amarillo.
York - (Off the Wall) Gingerbread Latte.
Five Towns - Sweet Thing Reprise.
Half Moon - Jester.

The Session Pale was easily pick of the bunch.

[Bucking Fastard]

Continuing the theme just one pub visit,and the one pint was by default BOTW,namely Mighty Oak Whistling Wheelbarrow.A decent porter,good bitter finish in The Old Cross Tavern. (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55450/)

Next week looks equally threadbare until the footie.

[london calling]

wiper and true -aardman stop frame
pressure drop=pointless porter
hopcraft -blood on the cloisters
hopcraft -moovers and shakers
merchant city -ipa
redchurch -choc cherry porter
blue bee -centennial ipa
blue bee -tempest stout
goose island -harvest mild
goose island -barrel aged porter
Liverpool craft -American red
watneys -the cosmo
amunson -basket case
siren -suspended in bravo
siren -suspended in mosaic
oakham -asylum (3 pints)
collective arts -porter
magic rock -highwire grapefruit
tiny rebel Christmas milkshake
lots of superb beers butBOTW
Wylam -mocchiata 6.5 (cask)drank in the new Goose Island brewpub

[Real Ale Ray]

Poynton - Chinook

Also, Poynton - Viaduct, a closed second. This was a new brewery to me, and every one of their beers was superb, as was their micro Flute & Firkin (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/86763/) Highly recommend a visit here.

[Komakino]

Fisher's Cinnamon-Infused Chocolate Orange Stout taken at Fisher's Brewery in High Wycombe on their Open Night last Friday.

[Millay]

My belated offering

JDW/Bodebrown - Cerveja Curitiba
Saltire - Cascade
Milestone - Comet
Arundel - Winter Knights
Tring - Moongazing
Hook Norton - Twelve Days
Greene King - Yardbird
JW Lees - Plum Pudding
Branscombe Vale - Branoc
Adnams - Ghost Ship

My BotW goes to the Hook Norton Twelve days