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Conrad
06-09-2010, 12:58
Beer Festivals easing off a little now.

Trainman: Blue Monkey Cathedral (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19478#post19478)
Bucking Fastard: Fullers ESB (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19572#post19572)
Oggwyn Trench: Purple Moose, Cadwalader Jones (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19624#post19624)
Pubsignman: Marble Chocolate Marble (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19663#post19663)
Alesonly: RCH Old Slug Porter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19667#post19667)
ETA: Harviestoun Ola Dubh (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19670#post19670)
gillhalfpint: Quantock UXB (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19673#post19673)
oldboots: Yorkshire Dales Askrigg Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19680#post19680)
Quinno: Rebellion Red (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19684#post19684)
ROBCamra: Blue Monkey Simian Summer (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19688#post19688)
RogerB: Steam Box Derail Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19692#post19692)
aleandhearty: Milk Street Funky Monkey (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19701#post19701)
Millay: Rudgate Viking (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19740#post19740)
HTM69: O'Hanlon's Yellow Hammer (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=19785#post19785)
Evil Gazebo: Thornbridge Larkspur (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3740-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-12-September-2010%29&p=20025#post20025)

gillhalfpint
07-09-2010, 10:01
Still a few about for us.

This week.
Thursday - Tamworth
Saturday - Minehead

Next week
Thursday - York
Saturday - Darlington Rythm and Brews.

RogerB
07-09-2010, 12:53
Still a few about for us.
Thursday - Tamworth

If you see a bloke, early 30's in a Wetherspoons Festival T-shirt, remind him that he has a few BotW's to catch up on.

Millay
08-09-2010, 06:15
I usually get to the end of the week and forget what I had, so this week I'm going to put a few markers down. So far it's been Oakham Inferno, Brewdog 5am Saint and Art Brew Monkey IPA :cheers:

Quinno
08-09-2010, 09:21
Excellent pints of ZD Bavarian Dunkel at Zerodegrees (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55743/) and a Titanic - Last Porter Call (Hope Tap (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/1665/))

Expect a few Wetherspoons in the mix this month as I attempt to shift my 50p vouchers before the end of September!

runningdog
08-09-2010, 17:52
So far this week it's Cottage Brewery's Somerset and Dorset Railway, (Slow and Dirty, as the Yanks called it during the war). A satisfactory beer but nothing special, although things may be looking up as Dark Island and Abbott Special Reseve are on the horizon.

trainman
09-09-2010, 11:16
Expect a few Wetherspoons in the mix this month as I attempt to shift my 50p vouchers before the end of September!

Eh? You still have some left?

trainman
09-09-2010, 11:18
I'll declare early,

Blue Monkey Cathedral at Derby's Old Silk Mill

Quinno
09-09-2010, 12:23
Eh? You still have some left?

Yep :)

Nice pint of Fail somethingorotheringaelic at the Hope Tap last night. Yum.

Off to London tonight to see Bill Bailey - to the Harp, I think, for a quick 3 or 4!

hondo
09-09-2010, 13:19
Yep :)

Nice pint of Fail somethingorotheringaelic at the Hope Tap last night. Yum.

Off to London tonight to see Bill Bailey - to the Harp, I think, for a quick 3 or 4!

inveralmond lia fail ?:confused:?

RogerB
09-09-2010, 13:32
Yep :)to the Harp, I think, for a quick 3 or 4!

I would join you but I'm off to see Muse tomorrow and I have to collect my ticket from the PO sorting office tonight before it shuts!

Quinno
09-09-2010, 13:35
inveralmond lia fail ?:confused:?

Correct!

http://www.beermad.org.uk/brewery/518&searchwhat=beer

Hooray for beermad (and Hondo)

Bucking Fastard
10-09-2010, 16:48
Most unlikely to get to a pub this weekend,so might as well get in an early nomination rather than being tail end Charlie.My BOTW was Fullers ESB ,always very well kept in The Saracens Head,Kings Langley and it slipped down with ease.

Now on the last leg of my 2010 voyage around the canal system,with the slow slog down the Grand Union , then through central London before the scenic joys:rolleyes: of the lower Lee Valley.It's now getting more difficult to discover outstanding ale and the next stops at Rickmansworth and Uxbridge are unlikely to change that scenario,but fortune favours the brave.:pray:

Quinno
10-09-2010, 21:43
I would join you but I'm off to see Muse tomorrow and I have to collect my ticket from the PO sorting office tonight before it shuts!

you missed out on a lovely Dark Star Smoked Porter.

The Harp gets better every time I visit!

Oggwyn Trench
10-09-2010, 22:14
Decent start to the weekend
White Rose - Legless (battle of Britain 70th anniversary)
Sadlers - Old Joe
Empire - It Keeps Moving
Mallinsons - Hop Likely
Salopian - Jigsaw

White Rose in the lead at moment

Oggwyn Trench
11-09-2010, 22:21
The weekends drinking now finished
Jennings Crag Rat
Ringwood Best Bitter
Spitting Feathers Honey Trap
Plassey Welsh Border Exhibition Ale
Cotswold Spring Codrington Codger
Northumberland Bucking Fastard
Purple Moose Cadwalader Jones

It was tight but a last pint winner
BOTW Purple Moose , Cadwalader Jones

Pubsignman
13-09-2010, 00:01
A very good week beer-wise, so picking a winner has been tougher than normal.

Highlights included Dark Star Tripel, Palmers Best Bitter, Marble Summer Marbles, Beartown Black Bear, Titanic Stout and Castle Rock Harvest Pale, but there were two I enjoyed even more than this lot; Marble Chocolate Marble and Fyne Ales Highlander. I've been waiting a long time to try the Marble Chocolate Marble, as we never seem to see their beers down here and it was well worth the wait, so I will make it my BOTW, especially as I've nominated the excellent Highlander in the past.

Alesonly
13-09-2010, 06:18
NETHERGATE
SUFFOLK COUNTY 4.0% ABV

KELHAM ISLAND 45 RPM 4.5% ABV

Kelham Island Brewery, Sheffield. Est. 1990

RCH OLD SLUG PORTER 4.5% ABV

RCH Brewery, Somerset. Est. 1982



I Had some good Guest Beers in the wethers this week. So Beer ot the week was RCH Old Slug Porter

ETA
13-09-2010, 07:19
Despite the high quality of Edinburgh pubs, my BOTW was actually at a private party this week (thank God I didn't have to pay for it - corporate hospitality is a wonderful thing) - Harviestoun Ola Dubh. By no means a session beer, and I was full to the brim after two bottles (so had to wash it down with a Sciehallion or two - difficult to know exactly how many when your glass keeps getting topped up), but an enjoyable experience. Really shouldn't have had the whiskey chasers though - trouble is my mind thinks I'm still 21 even when my body tells it otherwise.

Reading through this thread, Scottish beer sseem to have done unusually well this week.

gillhalfpint
13-09-2010, 07:47
I too am choosing a beer that is not a session beer but it went down a treat. I have enjoyed so many beers at Tamworth and Minehead beer festivals, but the one beer stands out as superb.

Quantock UXB 9%. BOTW.

Wow - it was a goodun.

Gill

trainman
13-09-2010, 08:07
Enjoyed Mallinsons Ahtanum (Now that's what I call hops 12) & Thornbridge Larkspur, among others at CASK yesterday, but will stick with my earlier declaration from a top day in Derby.

oldboots
13-09-2010, 08:08
I thought for a while it would be Mordue Workie Ticket, perversely sampled in Hampshire and without a sparkler but still excellent. A late finish by a Yorkshire brewery changed all that so my BOTW is Yorkshire Dales Askrigg Ale

Quinno
13-09-2010, 09:36
Cracking pint of Rebellion Red at the Back of Beyond (yes, a JDW) yesterday, so that's my BOTW.

I also got id'ed yesterday, which is a shocker. :eek::eek:

ROBCamra
13-09-2010, 10:46
An honoury mention for Jarrow Bitter, Yorkshire Dales Antipodean & Mordue 5 bridges.

All tried in Newcastle at the Crown Posada, Bacchus & Fitzgeralds respectively.

But the winner this week is going to be Blue Monkey Simian Summer tried at the Bridge, also in the toon. :cheers:

RogerB
13-09-2010, 11:10
Not a very expansive selection this week and not much really stood out. Caught in the rain on the Isle Of Wight on Saturday, we made an emergency stop in the Three Bridges at Brighstone where they conjured up Steam Box Derail Ale which was bit heavy going for an afternoin pint but pretty good stuff all the same.

trainman
13-09-2010, 11:33
I also got id'ed yesterday, which is a shocker. :eek::eek:

Whaaat? As in 'This is that Quinno chap who writes stuff about us on t'interwebby thingey', or, as I think you mean, challenged about your age?? Lucky sod!

Quinno
13-09-2010, 11:38
Whaaat? As in 'This is that Quinno chap who writes stuff about us on t'interwebby thingey', or, as I think you mean, challenged about your age?? Lucky sod!

challenged about my age - in a Wetherspoons. I suspect it might be that I went in wearing my Aber Town top and they wanted an excuse not to serve me in case I was a cliched "footy fan out on the piss"...my choice of a real ale and a CAMRA id card (plus general incredulity) was enough to persuade them...!:muppet:

Maldenman
13-09-2010, 11:40
Tintagel Gull Rock in The Traf yesterday pm is an earlyish contender for me.

aleandhearty
13-09-2010, 13:26
A much quieter week for me, which was inevitable after last week's efforts. Enjoyed Mauldons 'Black Adder' and Saitaire 'Crystal Red' but the clear winner was Milk Street 'Funky Monkey'. Great flavour for its strength.

Wittenden
13-09-2010, 14:19
but the clear winner was Milk Street 'Funky Monkey'. Great flavour for its strength.
Good call-my BOTW a few weeks back. Unfortunately no pub this week!

Millay
13-09-2010, 21:57
I usually get to the end of the week and forget what I had, so this week I'm going to put a few markers down. So far it's been Oakham Inferno, Brewdog 5am Saint and Art Brew Monkey IPA :cheers:

Despite those early stars I'm going for Rudgate Viking as my BotW, only 3.8% but a good session beer.

HTM69
14-09-2010, 19:44
A decent ale week for HTM69, with 13 pints sunk over a 3-day period.

Wadworth William Hacket x 1
Goddard's Fugle De Dum x 4
Tiger [bottle] x 1
Newcastle Brown Ale [bottle] x 2
Gordons Gin & Tonic Water [single measure] x 1
Brains SA x 2
Cottage Brewery Licence To Chew x 1
Cottage Brewery Hurricane Ale x 1
O'Hanlon's Yellow Hammer x 4

BOTW: O'Hanlon's Yellow Hammer

Evil Gazebo
17-09-2010, 11:39
A good week, which looked like being won by either Cotswold Spring’s Gloucestershire’s Glory or Brewdog’s Trashy Blonde, until Thornbridge Larkspur pipped both of them at the last minute.