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Thuck Phat: Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA
Bucking Fastard: Dorset Brewing Co Durdle Door
oldboots: Green Duck Duck & Cover
Mobyduck: Siren Ryesing Tide
Aqualung: Heart Of Wales High As A Kite
hondo: Oakham Citra
aleandhearty: Rat King Rat
london calling: Brewdog Coffee and Cigarettes
Real Ale Ray: Marlpool Scratty Ratty
ROBCamra: Wild Weather Serendipity
A bizarre week but with one or two fair beers:
Dark Star APA*
Southwark Centennial
Robinsons Magnum IPA
Salopian Torque*
Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA*
BOTW Bad Seed Seville Orange IPA. Delicious marmalade and a real IPA at 6%.
Dorset,and not much ale.
Everards -- Old Original *
Piddle Brewery -- Mad Hare
Dorset Brewing Co. -- Durdle Door *
BOTW goes to DBC Durdle Door on very fine form in the White Hart,Yetminster.
Next week the PuG crawl on the 38 bus should produce many good contenders.
Some cracking beers this week but a winner there must be and it's (just) Green Duck - Duck & Cover (almost every pub in Darlington had at least one beer from this brewery on this week); honourable mentions for Toon Broon and Brew 30.
Rat - White Rat
Goose Eye - Pommies Revenge
Wensleydale - Falconers
Mithril - The Quaker
Green Duck - Duck & Cover
Firebrick - Toon Broon
Loddon - Hocus Pocus
Rudgate - Brew #30
Consett - Black Bob
Camerons - Strongarm
Roundhill - BPA
Bristol Beer Factory - Oatmeal Stout
No18 Yard (Shepherd Neame) - Hog Island
Theakstons - Best
Sarah Hughes - Dark Ruby
Some good stuff and some ordinary stuff.
Ballards Midhurst Mild
Red Cat Scratch
Purity Pure Gold*
Triple fff Moondance
Burning Sky Plateau*
Black Jack Poker Face
Mad Squirrel Sumo*
Siren Ryesing Tide*
Siren Vermont Tea Party*
Big Smoke Underworld Vanilla Stout*
Wimbledon Phoenix*
Almasty Session IPA*
Durham White Gold
Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale*
Truman's Swift
BOTW is Siren Ryesing Tide , given a run for its money by Almasty Session IPA.
This week consisted of a journey through Wales and back via Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.
Rowton Moonstruck Mild 3.3%
Heart Of Wales Irfon Valley Bitter 3.5%
Heart Of Wales Aur Cymru 3.8%
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.8%
Derby Hop Till You Drop 3.9%
Green Duck Duck & Cover 4.0%
Heart Of Wales Bitter 4.1%
Glamorgan Welsh Pale 4.1%
Rowton Comet 4.4%
Heart Of Wales Welsh Black 4.4%
Heart Of Wales Cambrian Heart 4.5%
Adnam's Two Brewers Irish Red 4.5%
Burton Bridge Damson Porter 4.5%
Derby Altbier 4.5%
Salopian Lemon Dream 4.5%
Celt Silures 4.6%
Elland Mojo 4.7%
Phoenix Double Gold 5.0%
Butcombe Brunel Atlantic IPA 5.0%
Brecon Red Beacons 5.0%
Cold Black Crib Goch 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Gower Power 5.5%
Battlefield Sabut Jung 5.8%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Oakham Green Devil (Bottle) 6.0%
Heart Of Wales Innstable 6.8%
Heart Of Wales High As A Kite 10.5%
The Duck & Cover I too found to be excellent at £2.90 (discounted) in the Platform Ale House at Albrighton and is the best of the low ABV ones. However, the High As A Kite (£5.00) in the superb Neuadd Arms Hotel in Llanwrtyd wins it. This was my last pint here and caused much amusement to the Hotel Owner / Landlord / Brewer. It's an old school barley wine though not overpoweringly sweet that is just brewed for the winter months so I was lucky to find it still on.
BOTW Heart Of Wales High As A Kite
oakham - citra
A flying visit to Huddersfield was the basis of this week's bibbing.
Empire - Porter.
Magic Rock - Ringmaster.*
Empire - Jonah.
Wishbone - Bandit.
Copper Dragon - Silver Myst.
Mallinsons - Nelson Sauvin.*
Fernandes - Sixty Shillings Mild.*
Rat - Ratamahatta.
Rat - White Rat.*
Rat - King Rat.*
Rat - Anthrats.*
No prizes for guessing that a good session was had in the ever reliable Rat & Ratchet. The King Rat was the star of the day, but the Sixty Shillings was also very good.
Easy winners this week
Brewdog-coffee and cigarettes 12.1
cost me £6.60 for a third .
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Originally Posted by london calling
Marlpool - Scratty Ratty in https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/79093/ one of the friendliest and wackiest micros I've visited so far. Excellent little place.
Wild Weather Serendipity. A cracking, hoppy, pale 3.9% session ale tried several times in The Baum. :cheers: