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Wimbledon Brewery's XXK in The Prince Alfred. Notes of red berries, spice and caramel were sufficiently muted so as not to be detected without the prompt. Not a bad drop, but so it should be at £5.10 a pint!
Dark Star Hophead
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Wantsum Heart Of Darkness
Lytham Blonde
Lytham IPA
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Hop Back Entire Stout
First place easily goes to the Entire Stout, Its always been a good beer and on this evidence remains so.
Harlow,Croydon,Daventry and Borough Market.
Burning Sky -- Aurora *
Mc Mullens -- Bootwarmer
Mc Mullens -- AK
Adnams -- Ghost Ship
Titanic -- Plum Porter * (3PT)
Bedlam -- Golden Ale
Leyden -- Rammy Rocket *
Hop Stuff /Barbarian -- Jolly Cooperation Sour IPA *(keg)
BOTW goes to Hop Stuff/Barbarian Jolly Cooperation taken in The Rake.It certainly was sharp but not overpowering and the IPA complexity came through.Drinkable at 6% as long as you can cope with sour .Just glad it wasn't my round.;)
Next week a major session in The Cask and an annual Hertford Pub Crawl,should be large.
So often mentioned on these pages, but I have to go for Titanic Plum Porter, in Croydon's George yesterday and again later in recently improved Claret & Ale. A whoosh of juicy loveliness, distilled plum!
Very pleasant to briefly bump into BF and son, and Palace pal, in the George, also my ex-next-door neighbour Brian and son, all taking some anaesthetic before going to Selhurst Park - well done for breaking the 'without Zaha' curse chaps..!
Some great beers up London midweek
London brewing-never mind the kent hops
gan yam -pal citra
cloudwater -extra special bitter(like Doombar on steroids hated this .bought a pint as well.fool
watneys -ravens beer
ilkley -holy raspberry stout
grey trees -afghan
st peters -plum porter
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gypsy hill -inspecter 4.5 (a Christmas mild)
Good week for me, largely based on an annual Christmas wander round Skipton, despite the best efforts of Northern Rail.
Wishbone - Tiller Pin. *
Bingley - 1848.
Wilde Child - Enfant Terrible.*
Turning Point - Sleeping Giant.*
North Riding - APA.
Roosters - Baby Faced Assassin.*
Bingley - Rhubarb Saison.
Beer Monkey - Blond.
Timothy Taylor - Golden Best.
Wilde Child - California Love.
Ilkley - Mary Christmas.
Five Towns - Sweet Thing.
Imperial - Stout Wi' Nowt Tekken' Out.
Firstly, an honourable mention for the Enfant Terrible - great flavour for a 3.1% beer. However, the crown goes to Sleeping Giant, a porter with hints of spice. Sampled in The Narrow Boat.
Quiet:
Marstons Bass*
Adnams Ghost Ship
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
BOTW goes to a particularly well kept Bass.