Beer of the Week (w/e 13th January 2019)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Mobyduck]

A rather desolate lurgy ridden week with three pub visits to two pubs.

Flowerepots Perridge Pale
Reunion Minimalist
Triple fff Winter Oatmeal Stout

All three beers were decent but Stout edges it, taken in The Alfred (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/35750/) this evening, which I am pleased to see makes Komakino's top ten pubs, it was on my shortlist but competition is fierce.
Expecting another low key week this week.

[Aqualung]

All beers tried in Shropshire, Powys & Cheshire :-

Ludlow Best 3.7%
Salopian Shropshire Gold 3.8%
Fuggle Bunny Cotton Tail 4.0%
Monty's Best Offa 4.0%
Oakham Citra 4.2%
Robinson's Unicorn 4.2%
Ludlow Black Knight 4.5%
Spey Valley Stillman's IPA 4.6%
Ludlow Boiling Well 4.7%
Ludlow Stairway 5.0%
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft 5.2%
Beavertown Gamma Ray (keg) 5.4%
Monty's Figgy Pudding 5.5%
Redwillow Faithless 95 (keg) 5.5%
Dark Star Revelation 5.7%
Ludlow Whiskey Well 6.5%
Magic Rock Cannonball (cans) 7.4%



The Magic Rock Cannonball was a bargain with tow outdated cans for £4.00 in the Salopian Bar but the winner is the Ludlow Whiskey Well as tried for £3.30 at the Ludlow Brewery Tap. This is a strong dark ale with a very pronounced Whiskey flavour. That Innis & Gun stuff is rubbish in comparison.

BOTE Ludlow Whiskey Well

[Wittenden]

Kent

Tonbridge-Ebony Moon 4.2%abv:I hadn't drunk this since 2011.My loss, a delightful easy drinking 'session'porter,its finer points lost to a streaming cold.Indoors, a can of Harveys Black Stout hit the spot,though I can't really get my head around the concept of Harveys in tin.

[Bucking Fastard]

Long Buckby,City of London ,Croydon and Finsbury Park.

Marston's -- Pedigree
Shepherd Neame -- Whitstable Bay Pale Ale
Fuller's -- ESB
Lacon's -- Encore
Dark Star -- Hophead
Youngs -- Special
St Austell -- Tribute
Youngs -- Winter Warmer
Saltaire -- Triple Chocoholic * (3PT)
Cronx -- Nektar Pale
Cronx -- Kotchin
Orbit -- Peel Belgium Pale * (keg)
Truman's -- Fire Starter

A lot of very ordinary beer so BOTW was an easy choice, Saltaire Triple Chocoholic on very fine form in The George (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/35541/)

Next week looking very quiet indeed.

[Spinko]

York-Otherside IPA. Clean and hoppy, in Foleys Ale House.

Had this on a five pub crawl in Leeds and was up against decent beers in the Fox and Newt, North Bar, Duck and Drake, and The Hop.

[aleandhearty]

Just the one Friday teatime session, this week.


Bad Seed - On the Juice.
Riverhead - Butterley Bitter.
Coniston - Special Oatmeal Stout.*
Tigertops - Honey Maid.
North Riding - US Session Pale.*
Oakham - Green Devil.*
Stancill - Black.
North Riding - Cascade.*

I enjoyed all the highlighted beers, but the Green Devil wins by a nose. Sampled in Harry's Bar, Wakefield.

[Thuck Phat]

Gentle week but I enjoyed BOTW Hop Back Summer Lightening.

[Komakino]

Oakham's Green Devil is just edged out by New River's Blind Poet smoked porter, both taken at Hertford's superb Old Cross Tavern (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55450/) yesterday.

BOTW: New River Blind Poet

[oldboots]

Just a (longish) Saturday afternoon sesh due to ill-health but this

1748

[Millay]

It has been a 'busy' week for me, so here are just the new beers, which takes me on to 21/500 for the year.

Dorset Brewing Co - Jurassic
Salcombe - Salcombe Gold
Peakstones Rock - Black Hole
Bath Ales - Frosty Hare
Loddon - Forbury Lion
Brewster's - Rutterkin
North Yorkshire - Valhalla
Naylor's - Plum Porter
Leighton Buzzard - Train Robber
Twickenham - Summer Down Under
Salopian - Alaris

So many good ones there, but the Salcombe Gold takes it.

[london calling]

Quality rather than quantity this week
siren -suspended in light
greytrees -equinox
brewhouse and kitchen -pigs ear
brewhouse and kitchen -joseph markovich ipa
garden -milkshake ipa
bbno -session ipa
holler-heavylifting
great heck -Christopher
and BOTW
brew by numbers-ddh 5.8 drank in the 7seasons bottleshop Hoxton