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Galore Admin
23-05-2011, 11:23
Oggwyn Trench: Brown Cow 19th Nervous Breakdown (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=32998#post32998)
Thuck Phat: Bathams Bitter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=32999#post32999)
Millay: Tring Brewery Bring me Sunshine (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33040#post33040)
Al 10000: Triple F Altons Pale Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33044#post33044)
Pubsignman: Hambleton Nightmare (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33058#post33058)
Alesonly: Arundel Prize Fighter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33059#post33059)
trainman: Blythe Hill Tavern (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33063#post33063)
aleandhearty: Black Dog Whitby Abbey (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33067#post33067)
Bucking Fastard: Titanic White Star (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33068#post33068)
RogerB: Whitstable Oyster Stout (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33073#post33073)
PaulOfHorsham: Brodies Amarilla (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7183-Beer-of-the-Week-%28w-e-29-May-2011%29&p=33038#post33038)

gillhalfpint
23-05-2011, 18:03
Just starting out so this BOTW may change, but really enjoyed the Skinners new beer Porthleven today 4.8% and it was in great condition too from the Truro JDW. Impressed. Hope all beers this week as good.

Oggwyn Trench
29-05-2011, 14:55
Beer festival at the Station so all 14 handpulls in use :D

Imperial - Blonde
Brown Cow - 19th Nervous Breakdown
Ossett - Citra
Summer Wine - Odyssey
Mallinsons - Sarahs Sweater
Saltaire - Stateside IPA
Rudgate - Ruby Mild
Owenshaw - Sowerby Gold

BOTW Brown Cow - 19th Nervous Breakdown

Thuck Phat
29-05-2011, 16:10
Good selection this week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Shugborough Mi Lady's Fancy
Everards Tiger
Titanic White Sar
Enville Ginger Beer
Jennings Cockerhoop
Hop Back Summer Lightening
Bathams Bitter

All were top quality with the White Star and Summer Lightening really standing out but BOTW was Bathams Bitter at the Great Western in Wolverhampton.

PaulOfHorsham
30-05-2011, 14:52
I'd somehow convinced myself that I didn't like Amarillo hops. A pint of Brodies Amarilla had me seeing the error of my ways - an excellent pint.

Millay
30-05-2011, 15:27
This week it's going to be Tring Brewery Bring me Sunshine

Al 10000
30-05-2011, 15:54
My beer of the week is from Triple F brewery and it was called Altons Pale Ale a nice pale ale and very refreshing this was in the Hollybrook tavern in Derby.

Pubsignman
31-05-2011, 00:38
The best beers from this week were all, coincidentaly, dark ones:
Ilkley Black Summit, Ascot Anastasia Stout and Buffy's Mucky Duck were all very nice but the stand out beer was Hambleton Nightmare - a very smooth stout with plenty of flavour to it which was flying out of the pumps at the Cricketers this week.

Alesonly
31-05-2011, 02:45
Had some strange choice of beers this week Including Wm Youngers Scotch Bitter, Wm Youngers Tartan Bitter, McEwans Export Bitter & Tennant's Lager Most of which I did not think were still available until I went up to the Inlaws.:eek:

But the best by far was the Arundel Prize Fighter for my Beer of the week.

trainman
31-05-2011, 07:45
the stand out beer was Hambleton Nightmare - a very smooth stout with plenty of flavour to it which was flying out of the pumps at the Cricketers this week.

I also had Nightmare in the Cricketers, but I'll go for Darkstar Hophead, a great thirst quencher after a convoluted bus journey to Blythe Hill Tavern (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/65860/).

aleandhearty
31-05-2011, 09:48
Down to earth with a bump this week. Only two halves all week, :eek: during a flying visit to The Station Inn, Whitby. Basically It's Cameron 'Strongarm' vs Black Dog 'Whitby Abbey'. The Black Dog had slightly more going for it.

Bucking Fastard
31-05-2011, 10:03
Some really great ale supped on a voyage around Staffordshire ,so a very difficult task to pick a BOTW.However on balance this goes to Titanic White Star in excellent form in The Sun,Stafford.The bitter finish of this smooth premium ale just demands another and it held it's own in a drink off versus Oakham Akhenaten.

RogerB
31-05-2011, 12:23
A poor week with only 7 different ales sampled and not a single new beer for me between them. I was going to use up my trump card of St Austell Tribute but I will save that for another poor week. Instead I will opt for the Whitstable Oyster Stout at Dartford's Paper Moon, always a good reliable pint.

Wittenden
31-05-2011, 13:52
Down to earth with a bump this week. Only two halves all week, :eek: during a flying visit to The Station Inn, Whitby. Basically It's Cameron 'Strongarm' vs Black Dog 'Whitby Abbey'. The Black Dog had slightly more going for it.

Ah,'Strongarm' I seem to remember a great deal of rivalry between it and Vaux 'Double Maxim'.As a stranger in those parts I liked both, but majored on Strongarm. No pub this week!

PaulOfHorsham
31-05-2011, 18:45
There must be more to this Beer of the Week thread than meets the eye - my beer never gets into the list.

Do I have to offer a financial (or beery) inducement to Galore Admin? :rolleyes:

Conrad
31-05-2011, 19:21
Well see, it is a highly complicated process, you need to either make it prominent so for instance bold or say that it is your beer of the week, otherwise I just assume you are telling us you drunk it.

ROBCamra
05-06-2011, 10:51
Late submission due to being in Ciutadella by the end of the week.

BOTW is going to be Phoenix Pale Imitation.

After a few weeks in the doldrums (in my opinion) the Phoenix beers are back on form.

Tony says it was because they were being left in the holding tanks too long before being barreled due to a shortage of casks.

Sounded a bit glib when he said it though, so who knows. Anyway, this one was back on form. :cheers:

aleandhearty
06-06-2011, 15:12
Ah,'Strongarm' I seem to remember a great deal of rivalry between it and Vaux 'Double Maxim'.As a stranger in those parts I liked both, but majored on Strongarm.

TBH I hadn't seen it in years and was curious to try it, as I remembered it being a really tasty drop. However, I was a tad disappointed. Realistically, I'm sure it's a combination of deteriorating numbers of taste buds, not being the beer it was and generally having moved away from that style of beer.