Beer of the Week (w/e 20th January 2019)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Spinko]

Hawkshead-New Zealand Pale Ale. In Stockton's Golden Smog.

[Komakino]

Fisher's DAPA (bottle) (8.5%)

[london calling]

Wylam -Hickey the Rake (2 pints )

[Bucking Fastard]

Very poor week.

Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Brewing APA

and by default BOTW Mc Mullens Fisherman Ale ,a house beer and almost certainly rebadged Country Bitter in here. (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/15004/)

Next week equally poor until the footie hoves into view.

[hondo]

Stewart Brewing - Pentland Ipa

[oldboots]

Bad Co - Wild Gravity
Taylors - Landlord
Yorkshire Heart - Red Wedding
Rudgate - Rudy Mild
Goose Eye - Pommies Revenge

Goose Eye - Over & Stout
Harrogate - Stray
Roosters - First World Problems
Bristol Beer Factory - El Choco
Brew York - Maris the Otter
Brew York - Tonkoko
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter

Quality not quantity this week, any of the last seven on the list could be BOTW but if I had to Brew York Tonkoko

[Mobyduck]

Another two pub week

Flowewrpots Perridge Pale
Ramsbury Gold
Severn Chocolate Stout
Isle Of Avalon Pomparles Porter
Adnams Mosaic (keg)

The Porter was decent but the Perridge Pale was excellent and BOTW.

[aleandhearty]

A very average week.

Northern Monk - Eternal.*
Blue Bee - Tempest Stout.*
Ilkley - Holy Raspberry.
Salt - Jute.*
Oakham - JHB.
Stancill - Blizzard.
North Riding - Cascade.
Great Heck - Patrick.
Five Towns - La Mure.
Empire - Porter.
Acorn - Old Moor Porter. (bottle)
Saltaire - Cascade. (bottle)
Mount St Bernard Abbey - Tynt Meadow. (bottle)

The Eternal was the comfortable winner, this week. I always have to try it, if I see it on the pumps, anywhere. Sampled, on this occasion, in The Hop (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/66330/), Wakefield. Finally got round to trying some Tynt Meadow (English Trappist Ale) and although it was good, I found it a little underwhelming, lacking intensity, for my palate.

[Thuck Phat]

BOTW Marble - Rainy Giraffe (can). A 6.5% melon India Pale Lager. Sounds bizarre but was tasty and refreshing.

[oldboots]

Finally got round to trying some Tynt Meadow (English Trappist Ale) and although it was good, I found it a little underwhelming, lacking intensity, for my palate.

Me too, I'll be sticking to St Bernardus, Westmalle and Orval.

[Wittenden]

Kent

Kent Brewery-KGB:4.1% abv.Peppery farmyard best bitter.In all honesty,this was more enjoyable than most of the bitters we drank in the 80s,once the accountants got to grips with things.
Goacher's-Special House Ale:3.8%abv. Fine,but lacked the earthiness I relish from Goacher's.
Indoors,I wasn't overly impressed with Adnams Mosaic Pale Ale.
My BOTW,Kent KGB.

[Aqualung]

A pathetic short list this week with just one day spent in pubs:-

Enefield EB 4.0%
Sambrook's Pumphouse Pale 4.2%
ELB Jamboree 4.8%
Windsor & Eton Conqueror 5.0%
Enefield London IPA 6.0%


I'll go for the Conqueror ahead of the Jamboree as tried for £1.99 at the rejuvenated Leytonstone Walnut Tree during the JDW January Sale.


BOTW Windsor & Eton Conqueror

[aleandhearty]

Me too, I'll be sticking to St Bernardus, Westmalle and Orval.

I did wonder if it was just me, so it's quite reassuring to read that. TBH, I'm a bit of a Trappist tyro, so I'll make a note of those three and endeavour to try them over the coming months.