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Conrad
16-08-2010, 15:24
And the week that may be

gillhalfpint: Wood Wonderful (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18114#post18114) provisional
Al 10000: Samuel Smiths Old Brewery Bitter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18242#post18242)
Oggwyn Trench: Lymestone Cowboy (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18282#post18282)
Wittenden: Dark Star's Over the Moon (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18324#post18324)
oldboots: Naylors Equinox (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18327#post18327)
ETA: Otter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18328#post18328)
RogerB: Twickenham Summer Gold (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18333#post18333)
aleandhearty: Mallinson's Paddock Reflections (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18335#post18335)
Quinno: Pitstop Celebration (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18349#post18349)
HTM69: Itchen Valley Winchester Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18363#post18363)
ROBCamra: York Blonde (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3460-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-22-August-2010%29&p=18390#post18390)

Quinno
17-08-2010, 00:26
Hobsons Mild 3.2 at the Moderation in Reading was cracking on Sunday during the quiz...

Hopefully a few more to come this week especially as I am off to the Egham USC beer fest (http://www.eghambeerfestival.co.uk/) on Thursday...looking forward to Ascot's Triple Trouble, Blackaddlers Lemme Oat! and the potential star of the fest in Pitstops Celebration - a Belgian Chocolate Stout.

mmm...:cheers::drinkup::D

General Staal
17-08-2010, 15:32
Anything by Woodforde's! Lovely beers, but the Nog is future of dark beers! Many a pint quaffed during my Norfolk sojourn.

Also, had a couple of cracking pints of Moorhouse's Black Cat in the Nottingham Arms in Tewkesbury yesterday. Another quality dark beer!

gillhalfpint
18-08-2010, 08:20
A day in Dundee and Arbroath yesterday and if I liked lime it would be Caledonian Mexican Bandit which really screwed my taste buds up it was so limey.

As I don't like lime, my BOTW is Wood Wonderful 4.8%

Conrad
18-08-2010, 12:48
A day in Dundee and Arbroath yesterday and if I liked lime it would be Caledonian Mexican Bandit which really screwed my taste buds up it was so limey.

As I don't like lime, my BOTW is Wood Wonderful 4.8%
Not doing anymore this week Gill?

ROBCamra
18-08-2010, 13:31
Beer of the week so far is the first pint I had in the Baum last night after 2 weeks on the dreaded fizz. :sick:

As it happens it was Greenfield Summer Ice, but it wouldn't have mattered what it was really.

A couple of pints of Kelham Island Pale Rider followed.

Just to be ironic I finished off with a cask lager, Hawkshead Lakeland Lager, pretty good it was as well. :cheers:

RogerB
18-08-2010, 13:33
Twickenham Summer Gold is a front runner for me this week. Haven't seen what my local 'Spoons have in this week yet and I have a day in Farnborough on Saturday so time for it to be usurped.

HTM69
18-08-2010, 14:01
My BOTW thus far is, err, Doom Bar. I seem to be consuming this pint more than any other at the moment - it's everywhere I bloody go! It started out as the occasional pint, but now it feels like I'm being stalked!

gillhalfpint
18-08-2010, 14:31
Not out today and tomorrow we will be travelling from Forfar to Balado Park, Kinross. It is Camping and Caravanning Club Feast of Lanterns and a big do, and won't be sure till we get there if it is easy to get public transport.

Had planned to do Edinburgh from there on Saturday if we can get out. I did mean to declare Wood Wonderful as BOTW so far. Will wait and see if we can get off site and away without the car.

aleandhearty
20-08-2010, 12:02
First beers of the week last night.( I think I was sub-consciously giving my liver a rest after the excesses of Cornwall.) Tried Barngates 'Catnap', Fernandes 'Copperpot' & 'Barge Blonde' and Leeds' 'Midnight Bell' - which is in the lead at the moment. However, the Copperpot was also very enjoyable.

Al 10000
20-08-2010, 17:22
This might sound boring but ive had a drink of Samuel Smiths old brewery bitter in the Golden Ball Scarborough, White Horse Beverley and York Arms York and these were all really good with a good head on them just how i like a beer to be.

aleandhearty
21-08-2010, 16:24
these were all really good with a good head on them just how i like a beer to be.

What's that? Same again for you Rex? :D

aleandhearty
21-08-2010, 16:29
Tried Barngates 'Catnap', Fernandes 'Copperpot' & 'Barge Blonde' and Leeds' 'Midnight Bell' - which is in the lead at the moment. However, the Copperpot was also very enjoyable.

Tried four more last night: Wylam 'Green Phoenix', Great Heck 'Yorkshire Pale Ale', Mallinson's 'Paddock Reflections' and Toad 'Mature Toad'. The Mallinson's has immediately galloped into the lead for BOTW. Another superb clean tasting beer from the talented Tara.

oldboots
21-08-2010, 19:27
The Mallinson's has immediately galloped into the lead for BOTW. Another superb clean tasting beer from the talented Tara.

Not 'alf, it came very close last week as my own BOTW, is Ms Mallinson pretty as well as being an outstanding brewster? (sexist old git that I am but we need to know)

trainman
22-08-2010, 02:41
Not 'alf, it came very close last week as my own BOTW, is Ms Mallinson pretty as well as being an outstanding brewster? (sexist old git that I am but we need to know)

She's a damn fine brewster.

http://www.drinkmallinsons.co.uk/images/Brewster.jpg

Oggwyn Trench
22-08-2010, 08:57
Sampled a few this week , Ironbridge Foundry Gold , Bankss Mild , Lymestone Cowboy , Shires Summer Classic , Cambrinus Deliverance , Purple Moose Cwrw Eryri , Red Squirel R.S.Xtra and even a GK IPA :eek:
BOTW is tough this week , but i think Lymestone , Lymestone Cowboy just edges it fron the Purple Moose and the Cambrinus

Wittenden
22-08-2010, 22:59
A good week for beer, thanks to a day out in Essex, and a wonderful beertent at Sissinghurst Smallholders fair, where we spent 2 damp days selling plants. My BOTW is between Nethergate IPA from East Anglia-a good clean low gravity IPA with a good hop level, and Dark Star's Over the Moon, a wonderful dark, malty yet hoppy beer from Sussex.
The enthralling complexity of the Over the Moon, coupled with its drinkability-its ABV is a modest 3.8, makes it my Beer of the Week.

oldboots
23-08-2010, 08:02
Just two days drinking this week but some fine ales drunk along the way, Beerworks "Dr Morton's Truth Serum", Wharfebank Camfell, Jarrow Westoe IPA and Wentworth Best all stood out but my clear winner was Naylors Equinox

ETA
23-08-2010, 08:07
The best pint I had in London was the Rev James in Lord Moon of the Mall, a JDW. But it couldn't top the beers in Salisbury. Best this week was Otter in http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/41717/

RogerB
23-08-2010, 10:44
A hefty week with several contenders. Grainstore Ten Fifty, Cottage Full Steam Ahead, Dark Star Hophead, Ballards Golden Bine, a couple of Otley ales 07 Weissen & Thai Bo and Everards Golden Zest were all good enough to win any other week but I'll stick with my original choice of Twickenham Summer Gold at the Dukes Head in Hampton.

aleandhearty
23-08-2010, 11:11
Mallinson's 'Paddock Reflections'...has immediately galloped into the lead for BOTW.

After six hours heavy gardening yesterday, the two pints of Toad 'Golden Angel' in my village local were absolutely fabulous. However, Mallinson's 'Paddock Reflections' is still BOTW.

Having seen trainman's picture of Tara M, I have to say she's a stunning.... brewster.

Quinno
23-08-2010, 13:45
Hobsons Mild 3.2 at the Moderation in Reading was cracking on Sunday during the quiz...

Hopefully a few more to come this week especially as I am off to the Egham USC beer fest (http://www.eghambeerfestival.co.uk/) on Thursday...looking forward to Ascot's Triple Trouble, Blackaddlers Lemme Oat! and the potential star of the fest in Pitstops Celebration - a Belgian Chocolate Stout.

mmm...:cheers::drinkup::D

Was up in Aberystwyth on Saturday and drank Purple Moose at the Ship & Castle - Cwrw Eryri...yum. Would have won any other week.

However, the Pitstop Celebration was indeed fabulous at the Egham USC so I declare it my BotW, simply because it will never be brewed again (so we're told!) :drinkup:

RogerB
23-08-2010, 14:01
This Purple Moose Cwrw Eryri / Snowdonia ale is getting about a bit. I also had a pint of it on Saturday in Farnborough - that's 3 people who have mentioned it this week in 3 totally different locations.

HTM69
23-08-2010, 21:29
A slightly above-average week beer-wise, with 12 fairly decent pints guzzled over a 3-day period. Suffice to say, Doom Bar shall not be my beer-of-the-week.

Sharp's Doom Bar x 3
Courage Best x 1 - a commoner, but a beer I rarely seem to drink.
Itchen Valley Winchester Ale x 1
Bombardier x 1
Spitfire x 4
Brians Best Bitter x 2 - I think for the first time, actually
Newkie Brown Ale x 2
Grolsch [Bottle] x 1
Vodka & Coke x lord knows

BOTW: Itchen Valley Winchester Ale

rpadam
23-08-2010, 22:19
This Purple Moose Cwrw Eryri / Snowdonia ale is getting about a bit. I also had a pint of it on Saturday in Farnborough - that's 3 people who have mentioned it this week in 3 totally different locations.
Three more for the Mŵs Piws - that's good going (but look out for the Glaslyn Ale which is my preference to the Cwrw Eryri / Snowdonia Ale ).

ROBCamra
24-08-2010, 13:02
Well I think I'm going to have to vote for York Blonde for last weeks BOTW.

Had it in both the Three Legged Mare and Yorkshire Terrier in York and it was excellent in both.