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Bucking Fastard: Dark Star American Brown
Mobyduck: Red Cat Tom Cat
Wittenden: Timothy Taylor Landlord
Aqualung: Salopian Kashmir
aleandhearty: Fernandes Mosaic
Spinko: Brewdog Punk IPA
london calling: Marco Paulo IPA
Real Ale Ray: Fell Yolo
ROBCamra: Electric Bear Inspector Remorse Porter
Sparce week,mainly Hertford.
Lacon's -- Falcon Ale *
Mc Mullens -- Country Bitter
Dark Star -- American Brown *
Easy BOTW ,Dark Star American Brown sampled in The Old Cross Tavern.Beautifully balanced with the initial sweetness offset by subtle bitterness from plenty of simcoe hops .It slipped down a treat,dangerous at 5%.
Next week Easter boating in Leicestershire ,mainly Tiger country.
As it turned out not too bad, SE London and home based,
Purity Pure Gold
Purity Mad Goose
Hop Back GFB
Red Cat Tom Cat
Dark Star Hophead
Dark Star American Brown
Trumans Runner
Sambrooks Session Pale
Sambrooks Pumphouse Pale
Harveys Sussex Best
Beavertown Neck Oil
Vibrant Forest Simcoe
Canopy Brockwell IPA
Canopy Tall Trees IPA
Bullfinch Wolf IPA
best beer enjoyed this week by far was Red Cat Tom Cat a 4.7% APA with flavours of sweet Clementine backed by a burnt Orange bitter back taste, strange but true, and it works, 3 pints plus was no problem.
Kent
A bit of a surprise.
Tonbridge-American Pale Ale 5%abv.Hoppy, but sweet.Not my favourite beer from Tonbridge.
Harvey's-Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv.On the fruity side.
Timothy Taylor-Landlord 4.3%. I've always liked this one, but up against SSB it came out on top.Keen and peppery, my BOTW.
Only a small list this week, saved by a visit to the Wolverhampton Great Western yesterday.
Adnam's Southwold Bitter 3.7%
Peerless Red Wheat 4.2%
Salopian Lemon Dream 4.5%
Greene King Abbot 5.0%
Stonehenge Danish Dynamite 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Dancing Duck Abduction 5.5%
Salopian Kashmir 5.5%
Oakham Green Devil (Bottle) 6.0%
Oakham Green Devil IPA 6.0%
The winner is the Salopian Kashmir as tried for £3.40 in the Great Western. The Abduction, Green Devil & Special were pretty good too.
BOTW Salopian Kashmir
Fernandes - Mosaic.*
Horbury - Sundown.
Beer Ink - Red Weizen.
Ossett - Silver Link
Fernandes - Great Northern.*
Not much in it between the two Fernandes beers. However, as I've nominated the Great Northern several times recently, I'll give it to the Mosaic.
7 Punk IPA and 2 Shipyard this weekend so its Brewdog - Punk IPA again. Just £3 in Preston's Adelphi too.
Marco Paulo -ipa 7.2 superb in the Owl and Pussycat brewpub.
Fell Brewery - Yolo fab session ale from Cumbria
Electric Bear Inspector Remorse Porter. Fairly strong for a porter at 4.7%, but well worth a couple in The Baum.:cheers:
Really?? Not down here it isn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra
Traditionally it was brewed at around 4 - 4.2% during the 20th century although it was rather stronger way back in the 1770's when it was called stout porter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
Close but, 18th century speaking there was "porter" and there was the stronger version "stout porter" as stout just meant strong in those days. Stout appears to have become applied only to strong dark beer in the early 19th C. Martyn Cornell quotes an 18th century gravity for porter as 1071 and mid 19th century gravities as Porter 1050, Stout 1055-1072.Quote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra
In the late 20th century Guinness Stout used to be 4.2%, their Porter (or Plain) was weaker; OG 1036 at the end of production in 1973 according to Cornell.
As with most beery things it all depends on "when" see also IPA and MILD.
Local ones down here that I can think of without checking are Portobello 4.4%, Wild Card 4.7%, Sambrooks 4.9% and Redemption 5.1%. The Brodies one is 7.8% but they are a law unto themselves and it is described as "Superior".Quote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra
Old Boots final sentence probably sums it up
You could argue about these things until you're blue in the face!Quote:
As with most beery things it all depends on "when" see also IPA and MILD.
Or Pale, or Black or Amber...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung