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Decent week for me, managing a couple more sessions than normal, with the Easter break. This weeks offerings:
Thornbridge - Juvenia.
Hop Studio - Dark Rose.
Corfu - Ionian Coffee Porter.
Lodewijk's - Fly By Night.
Central City - Red Racer IPA.
Five Towns - Crisis What Crisis?
Ossett - Citra.
Itchen Valley - 1644.
Navigation - Pale.
North Cotswold - Shag Weavers.
Fernandes - West Coast IPA.
Abbeydale - Black Mass.
Treboom - Drum Beat.
Wold Top - Bitter.
Thornbridge - Jaipur
Both the Thornbridges were in tip top nick, but even they couldn't touch the West Coast IPA - aromatic, smooth and powerful. Delicious.
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Inveralmond Brewery - Thrappledouser
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A decent week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Dowbridge Gladiator
Growler - Umbel Magna Porter
Langton All H'Ale
Salopian Matrix
Banks & Taylor - Edwin Taylor's Extra Stout, Dragon Slayer
Titanic Lifeboat
All of these were good with special mentions to the Gladiator - 4.5% of red ale drinkability, Magna Porter - a delicious coriander infused porter at 5% and Lifeboat - a very quaffable boring brown beer at 4%. BOTW was Salopian Matrix which punched way above its 4.1% with a distinctive dry and hoppy flavour. Ideal for wrapping yourself around on a Spring day.
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Had 17 new beers this week but cant find the list so from memory a new London brewer is the winner
five points -pale ale was very impressive
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I spent most of the week drinking Mythos and Alfa before finally finding a restaurant with an extensive beer list which gave me the chance to try out some Greek microbreweries. By far the best was the off-puttingly named Septem Brewery, with their Septem Friday's Pale Ale in particular impressing. A really hoppy number - very uncharacteristic of Greek beer and so good that I brought a load of their beers home with me.
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Spitting Feathers Old Wavertonian Stout tried in their Brewery Tap in Chester.