Beer of the Week (w/e 3rd November 2019)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Spinko]

Black Lodge - No one cared about Colin. Strange name hut great 5.9% beer, two pints sunk in the Golden Smog.

[Mobyduck]

A few pubs around Borough on Saturday helped pad the list out a little.

Purity Bunny Hop
Rat White Rat
Three Castles Mocha Mild
Milton Justinian
Milton Sparta
Bridgehouse Landlady IPA
Trumans Swift
Harveys Dark Mild
Harveys Old Ale
Siren Suspended In Lemondrop
Watneys Pale Ale
Oakham Citra

Both the Harveys beers were in superb condition in The Royal Oak (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/24284/) as you would expect, BOTW is the Old Ale,not a style of beer I normally go for.

[Wittenden]

Kent-West

Cellar Head-Pole Dancer 4.5%abv.A green hop Pale Ale,using Kent grown Cascade hops.Oily,piney,minty. Yum.
Greene King -IPA 3.6%abv.In perfect condition, but bland.
My BOTW-you guessed it.

[london calling]

A wander round Wandsworth found plenty of dull beers
youngs -cityscape
youngs -original
sly beast -session ipa
opengate-citra
sambrookes -wandle
Wimbledon-common
gk -yardbird
then Tooting which was better by far
Wimbledon -pitbull
London beer lab--qed pale
London beer lab-mosaic +ekenot
London beer lab-export stout
then Brentford
still good beers
w=eton -jam sandwich
pig and porter-piccolina
Whitstable -oyster stout
botw
triple fff-jabberwocky

[Aqualung]

The local Rose & Crown had a beer festival this weekend where the Landlord & Landlady drew up a list of breweries they liked and ordered a cask from each. The result was a festival where virtually all beers tried had some merit rather than obscure dross for tickers. Even so I don't recall seeing many of these before even though the brewery name is familiar.


Good Chemistry Time Lapse 3.8%
Marble Pint 3.9%
City Of Cambridge Hobson's Choice 4.0%
Bad Seed Session IPA 4.0%
Northern Monk Eternal 4.1%
Wylam Cascade 4.1%
Oakham Citra 4.2%
Conwy Black Witch 4.3%
Bristol Beer Factory Optimis 4.4%
Kelham Island Altered Beer 4.4%
Salopian Voodoo 4.5%
Reunion Beardtongue 4.5%
Brewdog Clockwork Tangerine (cans) 4.5%
Tiny Rebel Cwtch 4.6%
Grafton Caramel Stout 4.8%
Moncada Notting Hill Oatmeal Stout 5.0%
Thornbridge Hacksaw 5.0%
Enefeld London Pale 5.0%
Pomoma Island APA 5.3%
Five Points Brickfield Brown 5.4%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
ELB Imperial Stout 9.0%


I find it hard to pick just one so applying my old adage "when in doubt, go for the strongest", so it's the ELB Imperial Stout which was also well priced at £4.80. This was also a new beer for me.


BOTW ELB Imperial Stout

[Thuck Phat]

A small but interesting selection:

Oakham Darker Days*
Woodfordes Nelsons*
Brancaster Best
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Wildcraft Wide Awake Coffee IPA
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

BOTW by a stretch was Oakham Darker Days. A 4.8% dark beer which perfectly balances, for me at least, malt and hops leading it to pass the three pint test with ease. Spot on for the chillier weather.

[Bucking Fastard]

Greenwich,Hertford,Fitzrovia,Belgravia and Croydon.

Kernel --Pale Ale * (keg)
Mighty Oak -- Kings
Gold Bear -- Ford Prefect
Tring --Sidepocket for a Toad
Fuller's --Boardwalk *
Dark Star --Sunburst *
Fuller's --ESB
ELB --Jamboree
Burton Bridge --Stairway to Heaven
Oakham --JHB *
Kissingate --Ripple Raspberry Stout
Twickenham --Redhead
Surrey Hills -- Gilt Trip *

A mixed bag but BOTW goes to Dark Star Sunburst in good nick in The Star Tavern (www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/22865/) ,a joy of a mews pub.

Next week nothing much on the horizon.

[Real Ale Ray]

Kent-West

Cellar Head-Pole Dancer 4.5%abv.A green hop Pale Ale,using Kent grown Cascade hops.Oily,piney,minty. Yum.
Greene King -IPA 3.6%abv.In perfect condition, but bland.
My BOTW-you guessed it.

We also had Pole Dancer in Hastings and Kent last week, so this is also my BOTW. Old Dairy Fuggle Bitter was a close second.

[hondo]

Vocation - Life & Death

[Wittenden]

Old Dairy Fuggle Bitter was a close second.

Found some bottles of this Green Hop beer recently-pretty damn good.