Beer of the Week (w/e 15th March 2020)

[ROBCamra]

:cheers:

[Bucking Fastard]

Hoxton.

Moor -- Nor' Hop
Five Points -- Railway Porter *
Crouch Vale -- Ten 46
Mighty Oak --Cascade IPA *

BOTW goes to Mighty Oak Cascade IPA,a magnificent 6.4% quaffable gem in NBSS 5 condition in The Wenlock Arms (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23683/).BOTY so far.

Next week boating north on the Grand Union while it is still possible to travel around,some old haunts with hopefully top quality real ale.

[Wittenden]

Kent,East Sussex:

Larkins-Porter 5.2%abv:A cheering sight, and probably good physic.Dried fruit, bitter chocolate.
Long Man-American Pale Ale 4.8%abv:Bit tired,perhaps,but mellow.
Burning Sky-Arise 4.4%abv: From keg,but a delicious session pale.Wall fruit.Hazy.

Much as I relished the Arise,my BOTW, inevitably, is Larkins Porter, a beer that I thought I'd missed for the season.

[Spinko]

A Citra beer at Lytham Craft House... Don't remember the brewery! :drinkup:

[oldboots]

Manchester and Halifax this week,

Hydes - Mild (Old Indie)
Acorn - Drop Kick
Mallinsons - Is It Spring Yet?
Pictish - Brewers Gold
Nightjar - In Space No One Can Hear You Moo
Peerless - Peninsula IPA
Marstons - Tetley Cask
Holts - Bitter
Adnams - Old Ale
Staropremen - Lager
Rat - White Rat
Fernandes - Black Voodoo
Five Points - XPA
Tiny Rebel - Fubar
Redwillow - Wreckless
Turning Point - Lucid Dream
Totally Brewed - Papa Jangles
Bad Seed - Retro Style
Acorn - Black Oak
Salopian - Darwins Origin
Little Critters - Blonde Bear
Tapped - Sorsby Stout


BOTW is from my favourite brewery of the moment Turning Point - Lucid Dream

[Mobyduck]

VOG New Tricks#17- Hefeweizen
Edinbrew Mid Atlantic
Edinbrew Super Stout
Tollgate Hackney Blonde
Colchester Metropolis
Keppels Golden Crow
North Yorkshire White Lady
Flowerpots Perridge Pale

A toss up between two beers, the styles not normally my thing, VOG New Tricks and North Yorkshire White Lady, the former a wheat beer and the latter billed as a cask lager, I'm going with the lager, soft on the pallet and a subtle Orangey taste. BOTW is North Yorkshire White Lady.

[hondo]

New Bristol Brewery - Wonderland keg

[aleandhearty]

Just a Sunday afternoon session, this week. (Probably the last for a good while).


Rat - Ratched.
Great Heck - Nepa.
Ridgeside - Plato.
Magic Rock - Dark Arts.*
Rat - Mutant Rat.*
Elland - Amnesia.
Empire - Moonraker.
Wily Fox - Blonde Vixen.
Five Towns - Peculiar Blue.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
North Riding - Cascade.*
Stancill - Appraisal.
Parkway - Ruffled Feathers.

A two horse race this week, between the Dark Arts and the Mutant Rat. The latter, a premium strength (5%) version of White Rat, wins by a nose. Tried in the rapidly improving Henry Boons (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/41276/), Wakefield.

[Thuck Phat]

Best week for a while I suspect:

Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Marstons Pedigree
Pardoe's Netherton Pale Ale*
Abbeydale Deception*
Abbeydale Hopback Southern Cross

Easy winner of BOTW was Pardoe's Netherton Pale Ale. Typical black country beer with a sweetish, malty start which takes a half or so to adjust to followed by a lovely dry finish. Reminded me of Bathams Best, difficult to put down.