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Conrad
18-04-2011, 11:55
Bucking Fastard: Downton's Honey Blonde (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31420#post31420)
Alesonly: Daleside Old Leg Over (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31422#post31422)
rpadam: Youngs Ordinary (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31423#post31423)
gillhalfpint: Wantsum Turbulent Priest (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31428#post31428)
Thuck Phat: Wood Farm Best (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31438#post31438)
oldboots: Brains Milkwood
(http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31470#post31470)ROBCamra: Wychwood Hot Chocolate (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31483#post31483)
Oggwyn Trench: White Rose - Gecko to Nose You (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31486#post31486)
Pubsignman: Kernel Simcoe IPA (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31496#post31496)
RogerB: Daleside White Beer (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31502#post31502)
Evil Gazebo: Oakham Citra (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31543#post31543)
Millay: Brewdog Tokyo (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31573#post31573)
aleandhearty: Fenandes Green Bullet (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6684-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-24-April-2011%29&p=31620#post31620)

Bucking Fastard
23-04-2011, 17:55
BOTW for me was Downton's Honey Blonde,a refreshing pale beer served up in The Black Friar ,EC4.

Next week should be interesting on the ale front ,with trips to Lichfield,Burton,Derby and the Erewash Valley.I'll try and make some coherent notes.:D

Alesonly
23-04-2011, 19:24
My Best beers of the week are Daleside Old Lubrication Followed by Daleside Old Leg Over very close contest But I will go for the Old Leg Over. :drinkup:

rpadam
23-04-2011, 19:41
BOTW is Youngs Ordinary. A fine session beer, especially on a hot day, and even more so when free of charge... (see Voucher Watch thread)

Oggwyn Trench
23-04-2011, 22:12
Well a good start to the extended bank holiday season , with two beer festivals to go at(across the road from each other)plus the Stations 6 guest ales , i have been spoiled for choice :D Highlights so far

Offa`s Dyke - Barley Gold
Joules - Stumbling Monk
White Rose - Gecko to Nose You:o
Doctor Mortons - Sheep Remedy:eek:
Phoenix - Pale Imitation
Cambrinus - St Georges Ale
Brown Cow - Pale Moon

Its between the White Rose and Doctor Mortons at the mo

gillhalfpint
24-04-2011, 09:02
Afraid my beer of the week is one of 46 new ales we had between us - our rules - over our 3 days at Egham United Services Club.

Wantsum Turbulent Priest 4.4% just beat Ascot Ales Emperor Penguin Porter 7%.

trainman
24-04-2011, 09:39
even more so when free of charge... (see Voucher Watch thread)
Yes, thanks for the heads-up on that one. I particularly enjoyed a free pint at Wimbledon's Alexandra, as they ripped me off for ~£3.60 last time I visited! They said they were out of Bombardier as it had been £2 per pint yesterday.


one of 46 new ales we had between us over our 3 days at Egham United Services Club.

That's good going Gill!

Thuck Phat
24-04-2011, 11:05
A bit to choose from this week having visited The Merchants http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/57333/ beer festival. Over 80 beers and 20+ ciders and perries on over the week. My own sampling included:
Oakham Bishops Farewell and Farmers Wellies
Art Brew Blackcurrant Stout
Gidleys Meadow
Goose Eye Golden Goose
Saltaire Blackberry Cascade
Spectrum Old Stoatwobbler
Wood Farm Wood Farm Best

A tough call between the Farmers Wellies, Blackberry Cascade and Wood Farm Best but BOTW was Wood Farm Best, a traditional best bitter which goes down well initially with apparently little character but then smacks you with flavour and bitterness causing it to bounce rapidly out of the glass. Great to see a new and relatively small brewery hitting such heights.

oldboots
24-04-2011, 19:42
A very good week for beer as I wasn't working, lots of very good beers but an unexpected winner from Brains was MILKWOOD - a traditional malty bitter, slightly bitter-sweet but very drinkable.

"To begin at the begining:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black,
the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters' - and rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
The houses are blind as moles
(though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles)
or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfounded town are sleeping now."

PaulOfHorsham
24-04-2011, 21:51
Oakham JHB hit the spot on a warm Thursday evening (as you'd expect), but I was highly impressed by WJ King's new offering 'Market Porter' - not quite the pint for the climate, I accept, but it's very nearly as good as Fuller's London Porter. I shall be looking forward to another pint of Market Porter once winter comes around.

Wittenden
24-04-2011, 22:34
A very good week for beer as I wasn't working, lots of very good beers but an unexpected winner from Brains was MILKWOOD - a traditional malty bitter, slightly bitter-sweet but very drinkable.

"To begin at the begining:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black,
the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters' - and rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
The houses are blind as moles
(though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles)
or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfounded town are sleeping now."

Thanks OB-that's enough to drive me to Wales to try Milkwood!I've already described 2 beers as bibleblack this year.
No pub, again, this week! Consoled by Gadds No 3.

trainman
25-04-2011, 00:36
MILKWOOD

"To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, ...

Not tried the beer but have the book on my ipod. I think it may be a challenge to struggle through the text on paper, but the wonderful narration of Richard Burton makes it an occasional treat when walking the dogs.

ROBCamra
25-04-2011, 08:31
A good few beers tried this week with trips into Manchester and Sowerby Bridge.

Abbeydale Sheep Remedy and Salamander Whipping Boy in The Knott in Manchester were in with a shout.

As were all the beers tried in the excellent Works in Sowerby Bridge.

Kelham Island Modern Love threw it's hat into the ring tried at The Baum.

But BOTW is going to be Wychwood Hot Chocolate tried at the Flying Horse in Rochdale.

A dark beer with Chocolate & Chilli ideal for the warm Friday night when I tried it. :eek::cheers:

Oggwyn Trench
25-04-2011, 09:33
BOTW is going to be White Rose - Gecko to Nose You , despite the daft name was ideal for a warm night

Pubsignman
25-04-2011, 15:30
An excellent week, thanks in part to a couple of enjoyable Easter festivals. There were early contenders from a couple of old favourites: Fyne Ales Jarl and York Centurion Ghost.
The Easter Sunday turned up a few more excellent beers including Isle of Wight Vectis Venom, Isle of Man Old Bushy Tail and a wonderful pint of Orkney IPA.

However, despite all this stiff cometition, BOTW goes to Kernel Simcoe IPA, as tried at the Mason & Taylor Single Hop Festival on Saturday. An excellent showcase for the simcoe hop, full of grapefruit and citrus flavours and surprisingly drinkable at 7.9%. Another relatively new London brewery to keep an eye on.

RogerB
25-04-2011, 19:19
Managed to find a couple of the Trumans beers this week - OK but not BotW stuff. That honour will go to the Daleside White Beer at the Flying Boat in Dartford, one of the Spoonfest tail enders that still keep cropping up.

Evil Gazebo
26-04-2011, 12:30
Had a very good week, thanks in no small part to the weather as we wandered about the South Devon coast. Anyway, BOTW is Oakham Citra, which closely edges it from Dark Star’s American Pale Ale.

Millay
26-04-2011, 21:50
Think I've missed a couple of weeks of this.

Despite a special Oakham beer festival on at one of the pubs in St Albans (10 different Oakham beers I think) my BotW goes to one that I reported in this thread (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?6803-Most-Memorable-Drinking-Sessions). The wonderful Brewdog Tokyo, in all it's 18.2% of glory :notworthy:

aleandhearty
27-04-2011, 18:48
Very late submitting this week. Some good solid beers, but nothing that blew my socks off:

Anglo-Dutch - Sweet Jane.
Fernandes - Chimera.
Fernandes - Green Bullet.
Ossett - By George.
Fernandes - Sportsman's Special.
Green Mill - Northern Lights.
Nook - Oat Stout.

Unfortunately, the stout was a bit tired otherwise it would have probably won. Instead BOTW goes to Fernandes - Green Bullet.