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trainman: Roosters Yankee
Komankino: Summer Wine Resistance Dark Mild
Real Ale Ray: Rock the Boat Mussel Wreck
oldboots: Arkells 3B
london calling: Alphabet Kerb Kicker
rpadam: Goacher's Old 1066 Ale
Mobyduck: Dark Star Hophead Dry
Aqualung: Titanic Stout
Wittenden: Hopdaemon Golden Braid
aleandhearty: Ossett South Pacific IPA
Bucking Fastard: Yeovil Lynx Wildcat
ROBCamra: Burning Sky Aurora
Roosters Yankee. A sublime start to a Leeds crawl at my pub of the day (& week) Duck and Drake
Summer Wine Resistance Dark Mild (3.7%), sampled at Cheltenham Motor Club.
Rock the Boat - Mussel Wreck
Arkells 3B
For some it would be a well named beer (boring brown bitter) but it was absolutely superb and the best beer of the week by some way.
Well, for two weeks running, it has to be Goacher's 'danger juice', the Old 1066 Ale (abv 6.7%)...
Alphabet-kerb kicker 4.4 in Farrs School of Dancing Dalston was pale and hoppy BOTW
Very average week with a couple of highlights and a couple of beers I would never normally go any where near (no prizes), all for the cause of ticking a couple of new pubs.
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar Hophead Dry
Hop Art Red Cap
St Austell Proper Job
Sharps Doom Bar
Greene King IPA
Botw is Hophead Dry, not their best ever Hophead special but got better the more you had, pushed hard though by the Proper Job.
A modest week but not a Xmas beer in sight!
Rooster's Yankee 4.3%*
Loddon Ferryman's Gold 4.4%
Titanic Stout 4.5%*
Caledonian Double Dark Oatmeal Stout 4.6%
Village Old Raby 4.8%
Dark Star Original 5.0%
Long Dog Lamplight Porter 5.0%
Caledonian / Baird Rising Sun Pale Ale 5.5%*
Greene King Abbot Reserve 6.5%
Langham Aegir 7.5%*
The three contenders are the Titanic Stout, The Spoons International Rising Sun and the Langham Aegir all tried in JDWs. The Rising Sun deserves a mention as it;s the best thing I've had from Caledonian for years. I caught a fresh cask on Friday and it was excellent. The Langham Aegir was a real bonus at the uninspiring Tilly Shilling at Farnborough for £3.05. It's a smoky strong black porter that made the dull surrounds melt away. The winner is the Titanic Stout. I have to say I prefer either of their stouts to the Plum Porter simply because I could never imagine knocking back two quick pints of it as I did with the stout on Friday after returning to base camp. I'll still go for a pint of it but much prefer the stout. It's on the current Spoon's guest list so I hope to find more of it.
BOTW Titanic Stout
The top of the Downs:
Hopdaemon-Skrimshander IPA: 4.5%abv Reassuring Kentish IPA;peppery,refreshing.
Hopdaemon-Golden Braid:3.7%abv Great condition.Pale.Nettles and bitter herbs.
I would normally prefer the Skrim,but the Braid was top notch and my BOTW, taken at The Bowl Inn
Pretty good week for me, boosted considerably by a wander round Leeds, on Saturday, with 'trainman'.
Captain Cook - Grenville Stout.*
Leamside - Nicholsons.*
Tynebank - Silver Dollar.
Brunswick - Railway Porter.
Trinity - Rugby League.
Trinity - Dark Daze.
Rat - Plague Pole.
Fernandes - Great Northern.
Ossett - South Pacific IPA.*
Burley Street - Laguna Seca.
Sonnet 43 - APA.
Rudgate - Snow Wonder.
Belhaven - Smoke Stack Stout.
Castle Rock - Midnight Owl.
Anarchy Brew - Quiet Riot.*
Sunbeam - Chocolate Mild.*
Riverhead - Gingerbread Mild.
Ridgeside - Black Night.*
Wylam - Jakeside IPA.*
Cross Bay - Sunset.
Roosters - Fort Smith.*
Harvistoun - Old Engine Oil.*
Bristol Beer Factory - Independence.
Kirkstall - Three Swords.*
Quitea few beers in there that would have won on a quiet week. However, I was blown away by the Ossett, which is not something I write about their beers very often. Wonderfully aromatic and citrussy, it really perked up a jaded January palate. Passed the three pint test with ease.
Only one pub visit ,so the default BOTW was Yeovil Lynx Wildcat in decent condition in The Chetnole Inn.
Scratching around this week,footie may save me from a beerless outcome.
Burning Sky Aurora. 5.6% of dangerously drinkable hoppiness.
They call it a Strong Pale Ale, but it would knock most IPAs into a cocked hat.
Tried as often as MS CAMRA would let me in The Baum. :evilgrin::cheers: