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Galore Admin
30-05-2011, 11:56
Thuck Phat: York Brewery Pride of York (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33213#post33213)
Oggwyn Trench: Bird Brain Great Galah (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33217#post33217)
ROBCamra: Centurian's Ghost (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33239#post33239)
gillhalfpint: Keltek Beheaded (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33241#post33241)
Alesonly: Ringwood Old Thumper (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33244#post33244)
Al 10000: Castle Rock Harvest Pale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33248#post33248)
Spinko: Weetwood's Cheshire Cat (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33262#post33262)
Millay: Northcote Jiggle Juice (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33270#post33270)
Wittenden: Nelson's Loose Cannon (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33271#post33271)
oldboots: Acorn Sorachi Ace (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33281#post33281)
aleandhearty: Blue Monkey BG Sips (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33299#post33299)
Pubsignman: Fuller's Ascot Tercentenary Ale (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33306#post33306)
RogerB: Gales Spring Sprinter (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33332#post33332)
gillhalfpint: Spingo Easter Special (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33361#post33361)
Bucking Fastard: Ilkley Lotus IPA (http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?7292-Beer-of-the-Week-(w-e-5-June-2011)&p=33415#post33415)

gillhalfpint
31-05-2011, 11:04
Hoping for my first interesting beers this week at St Ives fest. Working there Friday and Saturday for a few hours, but hoping for beers that are not Sharps, Skinners and St Austell.

Thuck Phat
04-06-2011, 11:49
Three to choose from this week and all very good. Oakham Bishops Farewell, Saltaire Trio Pale and BOTW York Brewery Pride of York, 4.8%, pale, tasty, refreshing and very quaffable.

Oggwyn Trench
04-06-2011, 13:11
No more pub for me this week:( , Had a few decent pints last night and a couple of new Breweries to tick of

Mallinsons - Titan
Eastcoast - Hoppers 15
Junction - Choo Choo
Bird Brain - Great Galah

BOTW Bird Brain - Great Galah

ROBCamra
04-06-2011, 18:08
Beer of the week so far is a Cruzcampo or Estrella or San Miguel. :eek:

Hoping to put that right tonight though. :cheers:

ROBCamra
05-06-2011, 10:53
Beer of the week so far is a Cruzcampo or Estrella or San Miguel. :eek:

Hoping to put that right tonight though. :cheers:

And I did, but only a gentle session as it had been a long day.

Lymestone Stone The Crows was nice in the Regal Moon, but BOTW is going to be Centurian's Ghost tried in The Baum. :cheers:

gillhalfpint
05-06-2011, 11:08
Keltek Beheaded was the only one I had 2 of at St Ives beer festival, so it gets my vote for BOTW.

Alesonly
05-06-2011, 12:19
My Beer of the week this week is Ringwood Old Thumper. :D Had a good skinful yesterday evening in the Crown. :drinkup:

Al 10000
05-06-2011, 15:22
A local one this week, Castle Rock Harvest Pale in the Stanhope Arms at Stanton by Dale.

We even had to wait for them to put a fresh barrel on then they brought the beer to our table, that does'nt happen in that many pubs these days.

Spinko
05-06-2011, 19:26
Enjoyed a Weetwood's Cheshire Cat in the Ship&Castle, Aberystwyth. Actually, I enjoyed 3 of them. Considering it beat Brewdog's 5am Saint and Calderdale's Floral Power in Port St Beer House that's a very good sign. The Ship and Castle in Aber is well worth a visit when you have your next journey to the deepest edge of Welsh nowhere - every day I went in there wer at last 2 new beers on. The first session in there it was disaappointing as there weren't enough light flavoursame beers, too many boring brown or dark ones. The second and third days in there it was very well supplied with some pale tasty beers.

Weetwood's Cheshire Cat. If there's a beer I can drink 3 of in 45 minutes then it's usually a good one.

Millay
05-06-2011, 22:27
This week it's Northcote Jiggle Juice, enjoyed at the Euston Tap

Wittenden
05-06-2011, 22:55
I'm on record, probably on these pages , of not liking Nelson's beers. I hereby take that back, at least in the case of Loose Canon, served on gravity at Biddenden Vineyards "Taste of the best of Produced in Kent". A fine dark amber best bitter, conventionally hopped, with fruity depths. An unfashionable style perhaps, but very welcome. My BOTW Nelson's Loose Cannon.

oldboots
06-06-2011, 11:03
A very good week for beer but top marks to Acorn Sorachi Ace.

aleandhearty
06-06-2011, 14:01
A very good week for beer, with a bit of a backlash against the previous seven days abstinence. Tried this week:

Trentside - Grey Lady.
Blue Monkey - BG Sips.
Daleside - White Bier.
Fernandes - Centennial.
Breconshire - Mayor's Inspiration.
Westgate - Ale Fresco.
Dr Morton's - Rabbit Punch.
Great Heck - Equinox.
Ossett - Citra.
Ossett- Silver King.
Fulstow - Marsh MILD.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel MILD.
Atomic - Half Life.
Fernandes - Perle.
Wensleydale - Black Dub.
Ossett - White Rose Wheat.
Rudgate - Jorvik Blonde.
Clarks - Rams Revenge.
Riverhead - Yellowhammer.
Bridestones - Dark Mild.
Five Towns - Niamh's Nemesis.
Great Heck - Achtung! Hefeweizen.

Beer name of the week undoubtedly goes to the 'Achtung' and very good it was too, very laid back in the style of a German Wheat beer. Very close between the Citra, Black Dub, the ever reliable Malt Shovel Mild, but Blue Monkey BG Sips just shades it.

Pubsignman
06-06-2011, 15:34
Interesting (and most expensive) beer of the week has to be Great Divide Hercules Double IPA which was on at the Rake on Bank Holiday Monday. It's 10% abv and clocks up 85 IBU, although I didn't find it overwhelmingly bitter - in fact it seemed quite well balanced with some good malt sweetness and plenty of piney/citrus hop aroma and taste. However, it wasn't very easy drinking and I wouldn't have wanted much more than the third pint I tried and not just because it cost over £8 for a pint.

Slater's Top Totty, Windsor and Eton Knight of the Garter and Dark Star M&M Porter were all in the running for BOTW, but a late pint of Fuller's Ascot Tercentenary Ale last night managed to pip the rest. I thought it was a very good, fruity number, ideal for a summer's day, which was rather galling given that I'd only popped into the pub to avoid the pouring rain outside.

aleandhearty
06-06-2011, 15:39
Fuller's Ascot Tercentenary Ale ...ideal for a summer's day, which was rather galling given that I'd only popped into the pub to avoid the pouring rain outside.

:D

rpadam
06-06-2011, 22:35
Fuller's Ascot Tercentenary Ale
Encoutered in the Barrowboy & *anker earlier this evening - not a bad pint at all (but I should think so at £3.90!)...

RogerB
07-06-2011, 09:22
Another pretty quiet week on the beer front - just 10 different pints and 6 I have had before. I almost thought about playing my St Austell Tribute trump card but I will go for the Gales Spring Sprinter at the Stonemasons Arms in Hammersmith, a decent enough and refreshing pint (as Spring beers should be) and better quality than the pint of it I had in Bromley a few weeks ago and at £3.70 a pint it bloody well should be!

gillhalfpint
08-06-2011, 09:00
Spingo Easter Special 7.6% BOTW and overides any other entry I may have made for this week. Blue Anchor beers get better every time I go. Clear as a bell and superb.

Sorry this should be in next weeks as I had it testerday, if you know what I mean.

Bucking Fastard
09-06-2011, 16:11
Terrible late entry from me,been away from t'internet but not from pubs:)

BOTW goes to Ilkley Lotus IPA,a very bitter full strength (5.9%) IPA and up against some fierce competition in The Cask,Pimlico last Friday.