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Holler-Loot IPA 5.5%abv. My first meeting with a NEIPA.Very fruity and thick.Lacking the hop hit I was expecting from an IPA.
Northern Monk - Northern Powerhouse. In Craft Asylum #2 on Granary Wharf in Leeds.
Hampshire, Surrey and East Sussex.
Leeds - Calypso
Big Smoke - Solaris*
Crafty - Crafty One Pale
Flowerpots - Perridge Pale*
Flowerpots - Bitter
Flowerpots - Goodens Gold*
Oakham - OPA*
Cross Bay - Zenith*
St Austell - Proper Job
Cellar Head - Hop Project
Brew Studio - Track 1
Vibrant Forest - Rubus Pale*
Vibrant Forest - Oxymoron*
Salopian - Hair Of The Dog*
Adnams Mosaic
All the starred beers were top notch and would be worthy winners most weeks, but the 5.0% Oxymoron, much enjoyed in The Old Bike Store, outshone them all and is BOTW.
It's appearance may unsettle some on here, just don't drink with your eyes.
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A more intersting week:
Facers DHB
Merlins The Wizard
Beartown Kahuna*
Whim Flower Power*
Kirkstall Dissolution IPA*
Good Chemistry Boundless Sky
Kirkstall Three Swords
Overtone IPA (keg)*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
Against stiff competition BOTW goes to Whim Brewery Flower Power. Just as good as I remember it - slightly floral, refreshingly bitter and very difficult to put down on a warm day.
By sheer coincidence, I've just been reading an article in the Stourbridge & Halesowen CAMRA magazine (Ales &Tales) entitled A Fined Beer Is A Finer Beer. The writer, Steve Thompson, is obviously not a fan of the unfined, but he did come up with some interesting definitions:
O-Opalescent, a beer whose clarity is such that one can easily see two fingers through the glass.
H-Hazy, a beer whose clarity is such that only the outline of two fingers can be seen through the glass.
C-Cloudy, a beer whose clarity is such that two fingers are hardly visible through the glass.
G-Chicken Gravy, a beer that looks like your mother's best chicken gravy and thick enough for a spoon to stand up in it.
It would appear you were on the chicken gravy! :D FWIW, I would try it though.
A good week, variety wise, but not much to get excited about.
Small World - Twin Falls.
Yorkshire Heart - Rhu-bar.*
Rat - White Rat.
Wigan Brewhouse - Old Boston.
Northern Monkey - Last Drop.
Salopian - Lemon Dream.
North Riding - Citra.*
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Stod Fold - Mandarina Bavaria.
Empire - Moonraker Mild.
Beer Ink - Leave Before The Lites Come On.
Brew Foundation - Wort' The Wait.
Fernandes - Red Neck.
Wigan Brewhouse - Gin Pit.
Fernandes - Cascade.
Mallinsons - Le Mild Thing.
The Citra was the easy winner, this week. Having not tried it for a while, I decided to give the Lemon Dream another chance. However, I still thought it tasted like Fairy Liquid. My least favourite beer from Salopian.
A pathetic week with a disastrous choice in the George last Tuesday with five beers from the Marston stable only one of which was worth a go. The other four were Bombardier, Pedigree, Lancaster Bomber and Wainwright.
Portobello Tropical Crush 4.4%
ELB Nightwatchman 4.5%
Portobello Market Porter 4.6%
St Peters Plum Porter 4.6%
Reunion Isotonic 4.7%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Marston Old Empire 5.7%
I've seen the St Peters Plum Porter mentioned in a bad light somewhere else. It was in good enough nick but quite sweet with a similar overpowering plum flavour as the Titanic one which better. I've no idea what Reunion are trying to achieve with the Isotonic beer but I thought it was poor. The best of a poor bunch is ELB Nightwatchman.
BOTW ELB Nightwatchman