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Thuck Phat: Saltaire Winters Ale
Mobyduck: Dark Star American Pale Ale
Bucking Fastard: Exmoor Dark
Aqualung: Brodie's Kentish Town Brown
Wittenden: Ilkley Mary Jane
oldboots: Dark Horse Hetton Pale
Real Ale Ray: Red Willow Feckless
aleandhearty: Mallinsons Well Hopped Women
london calling: Roosters Londinium
ROBCamra: Lacons Legacy
A decent week but with a couple of howlers:
Courage Directors
London Pride
Keltek Lance
Youngs Special
Vale Red Kite
Exmoor Dark
Saltaire Winters Ale
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Surprisingly the Directors passed the 3 pint test with relative ease and the Red Kite, Dark and Bishops were all very good. The Lance qualifies as BABOTW and BOTW was Saltaire Winters Ale. A traditional best bitter colour but with some poke at 4.9% and very drinkable.
Another sparse week
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Courage Best
Hook Norton Lion
The two Darkstars were Heads and shoulders above the others , I'm going with the American Pale Aleas BOTW.
Boating around MK so my expectations were low.
Charles Wells -- Courage Directors (half a gallon went down with no problem)
Fullers -- London Pride (3PT)
Keltek -- Lance (see BABOTW )
Charles Wells -- Youngs Special
Vale -- Red Kite
Exmoor -- Dark
Adnams -- Southwold Bitter
BOTW goes to Exmoor Dark in good nick in The White Horse,Linslade.
Hoping to catch the tail end of the Wetherspoons mini London Breweries festival in the George next Saturday ,likely BOTW there in what is billed as "Battle of the Brewers"
Not that many this week :-
Hopcraft Prospector 4.1%
Oakham Citra 4.2%
Cairngorm Black Gold 4.4%
Twickenham Naked Ladies 4.4%
Acorn Winter Pale Ale 4.5%
Windsor & Eton Windsor Knot 4.5%
Arkell's Kingsdown 5.0%
Blue Monkey Bonobo Black IPA 5.3%
ELB East India Spice 5.5%
Oakham Black Hole Porter 5.5%
Brodie's Kentish Town Brown 6.2%
Adnam's / Sixpoint Righteous Ale 6.3%
There are a few contenders, including the Sixpoint, W&E Windsor Knot and Black Gold but the winner has to be the Kentish Town Brown, an American Brown Ale for £2.50 in the William IV..
The Blue Monley Black IPA was a major disappointment as it lacked the hop flavour and aroma that are a trademark of this style of beer.
BOTW Brodie's Kentish Town Brown
No pub again this week:best of the bottles Ilkley Mary Jane, a worthy 5star when tried on draught at the Cover Bridge last year, but alas not naturally conditioned in bottle.
First drinking week of the year due to work, it's not that special, however:
Kirkstall - Dissolution
Yorkshire Dales - Askrigg Ale
Roosters - St Robert
Pennine - Best Bitter
Dark Horse - Hetton Pale
Caledonian - 80/-
Brains - Twenty 14
Ossett - Big Red
Taylors - Landlord
Knaresborough - Triple C
BOTW Dark Horse - Hetton Pale
Red Willow - Feckless
Fairly quiet week for me, but several beers on top form.
Mallinsons - Well Hopped Women.
Rat - White Rat.
Fernandes - Black Voodoo.
XT - 4.
Adnams - Ghost Ship.
RCH - PG Steam.
Roosters - High Tea.
Hanlons - Port Stout.
Otley - O2 Croeso.
Yorkshire Dales - Boro.
With honorable mentions for the High Tea and White Rat, the Well Hopped Women was just what we've come to expect from Mallinsons - pale, hoppy and delicious.
Some more mundane beers this week but very drinkable
Sambrookes -wandle
youngs -special
youngs -winter warmer
youngs -London ale
but 2 standouts
tiny rebel -hank
and botw
roosters -Londinium drank from a jug in the White Horse ,parsons green
quality pub, quality beer
Lacons Legacy at 4.4% blonde & hoppy, but not a hop bomb. A perfect 3 pinter, tried at The Baum of course.
Lacons is an old Great Yarmouth brewery, the name can still be seen in the stained glass on some of the towns pub windows.
The name was resurrected in 2012 and if Legacy is anything to go by, they're going to do just fine.:cheers:
They,re going to do just fine. Strangly enough the brewer( who I have met )last worked at Fyne. cheersQuote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra
That's one hell of a commute. Cairndow to Great Yarmouth. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by london calling
He learned to brew at Oakham then went to Fyne so he knows how to brew hoppy beers without stripping your tastebuds.Quote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra