Beer of the Week (w/e 17th November 2019)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Wittenden]

Kent:

Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds) -No 5 4.4%abv.Plenty of East Kent hops this time.
Dartford Wobbler (Millis)-Dartford Wobbler 4.3%abv.Brown and malty. New brewery for me.
Angels and Demons-McCanns Janet Street 4.5%abv.Lovely dark brown almost black Green Hop Porter.Dry with hedge fruit.

My BOTW the wonderfully named (for those of us with a keen interest in the pretensions of popular culture) Janet Street.

[Spinko]

A trip to Hebden Bridge on Saturday led to a very good Thornbridge Jaipur at the Old Gate.

[oldboots]

Not a bad week, including a batch of Kent beers at the New Inn, Cropton (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/58520/) beer festival.

Taylor - Boltmaker
Turning Point - Disco King
Box - Handlebar
Bad Seed - Filter Bubble
Turning Point - Lucid Dream
Harrogate - Kursaal Imperial Stout
Samuel Smiths Yorkshire Stingo (bottle)
Black Sheep Imperial Russian Stout (bottle)
Old Dairy - Copper Top
Northern Whisper - Summit
Time & Tide - Porter
Cattle Shed - Chocolate Milk Stout
Romney Marsh - Amber Ale
Taylor - Landlord
Helmsley - Striding the Riding
Banks's - Mild
Camerons - Strongarm
Ossett - Blonde
Taylor - Landlord
Kirkstall - Dexter
Oakham - Inferno
Titanic - Plum Porter Grand Reserve


A hard choice especially among the dark beers but I'll stick with one of Yorkshire's finest Harrogate - Kursaal Imperial Stout

[Thuck Phat]

Very quiet with just BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell on cask. Reliable as ever.

[Bucking Fastard]

Just a single pub visit so by default BOTW was Purple Moose Black Cherry Porter* in top form in the Old Cross Tavern (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55450/) .Not overpowering cherry,some vanilla and well balanced by good bitterness ,a very enjoyable quaff.

Next week looks equally bleak.

[Mobyduck]

A day off last Tuesday with a short trip to Reading helped make the list even more interesting.

Vibrant Forest Summerlands
Vibrant Forest Cambrian Root*
Vibrant Forest Barbarella*
Three Blind Mice Milk Worm*
Wild Weather/New Lion War Against Reality*
Goffs Jester Brew 10*
Goffs Jester Brew 11
Beavertown Neck Oil
Navigation New Dawn*
Acorn Powder Plot*
Dent Dales Way
Red Cat Art Of T*
Test Brewing Dun Stout
Hop Back Entire Stout*
Flowerpots Goodens Gold*
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
West Berks Maharaja IPA*

There are 4 or 5 top contenders here but BOTW is Three Blind Mice Milk Worm,described as a Milk Porter it scored a rare NBSS 4.5 for me in The Nags Head (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/1691/),narrowly edging out the Barbarella, a Rhubarb IPA in the same venue.

[london calling]

triple fff -jabberwalky
arbor -the devil made me brew it
weird beard -dodo
fourpure -last train
fourpure-typhoon hazy ipa
Brixton -routes and branch
black jack -euchre
Manchester -orange ipa
hop shed -phoenix porter
pig and porter -lilac time? mild
howling hops -last post
howling hops got pipped at the post for
beer of the week

two by two-ddh simcoe and amerillo at the Dodo micropub

[Aqualung]

All of these were tried in Cardiff & Newport

Rhymney Dark 4.0%
Cameron's Mooring 4.3%
Tiny Rebel Mosaic Cask IPA 4.3%
Brewdog Clockwork Tangerine (cans) 4.5%
White Hag The Black Pig (keg) 4.5%
Weird Beard Black Xmas 4.5%
Tiny Rebel Cwtch 4.6%
Northern Whisper Beltie 4.8%
Marston's Fortyniner 4.9%
Slater's Autumn Red 5.0%
JDW/Banks's Light Hearted Ale 5.0%
Salopian Aubade 5.0%
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft 5.2%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Northern Monk Faith 5.4%
Boss Boon (can 0.99p) 6.0%
Tiny Rebel What's Cooler Than Being Cool 8.0%

I'm going for the Northern Whisper Beltie, an excellent strong stout as tried for £3.65 in the Brain's City Arms in Cardiff.


BOTW Northern Whisper Beltie

[aleandhearty]

Another quiet week, unfortunately.

Whitstable - Oyster Stout.
Fernandes - Half Nelson.
Tigertops - Little Mac.*
North Riding - Cascade.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Phoenix - Monkeytown Mild.

A two horse race between the porter and the Little Mac, both on superb form. As mentioned on previous BOTWs, I've found Tigertops beers a little variable of late, but when The Axeman gets it right, he definitely gets it right. As always, it's difficult to find much info on Tigertops brews, but according to Untappd it's triple hopped and dry hopped. It certainly had fantastic flavour for a 3.7% beer, with a cumulative, lingering bitterness.

[Tris39]

Few newly found ales over this period:

Windsor Castle (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/22728/)

Gritchie's Moon Lore
- a bit bland
Boss's Let the Dragon Roar - incredibly bland
Black Sheep's Monty Python's Flying Circus - A Very Silly IPA
- really quite nice
Firebird's Two Horses
- not bad

Pig & Butcher (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/54340/)

Reunion's Isotonic - a bit medicinal

The Myddleton Arms (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23644/)

Mighty Oak's Kings - very nice and BOTW.