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A light week in variety
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Errant Tears Of Heaven
Adnams Lighthouse
Kent Bounty Hunter
Elusive Inertia
Five Points Pale
BOTW is Five Points Pale, superb in The Waterloo Tap.
Predictably a quiet week :-
Windsor & Eton Silent Knight Of The Garter 3.8%
Crouch Vale Brewers Gold 4.0%
Red Squirrel Resolution 4.2%
Moncada Notting Hill Blonde 4.3%
ELB Walthamstow Beer Green Hopped Pale (bottle) 4.5%
ELB Walthamstow Beer Green Hopped Dark (bottle) 4.5%
Brentwood Toblerone Stout 4.5%
Salopian Kashmir 5.5%
Marston's Old Empire 5.7%
Dark Star Imperial Stout 10.5%
The easy winner is the Dark Star Imperial Stout at the annual ritual in the E17 Rose & Crown. It was £5.80 on Xmas Eve and £6.00 on Boxing Day. I got a free half pint on Boxing Day from a geezer who was collapsing into a black hole and thought he should immediately go home! The ELB bottles were a result of the so called IS and were expensive but pleasant enough.
BOTW Dark Star Imperial Stout
South Norwood,Pentonville,Croydon,Shoreditch.
Steady Rolling Man -- Pale *(keg)
Burning Sky -- Plateau
Thornbridge -- Tonttu
Lagunitas -- IPA (keg)
Magic Rock -- High Wire *
Holler -- Heavy Lifting Stout *
Marble -- Lagonda IPA (keg)
Magic Rock -- Ringmaster
Kent -- Clerkenwell Pale
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *
Titanic -- Plum Porter *
Truman's -- Runner
BOTW went to Oakham Green Devil IPA on cask in The George and on absolutely top form.I sometimes see this on keg in some pubs,but the cask version was sublime.
Next week predictably quiet.
Kent:no pub visit this week.On the indoor front, my BOTW was Fuller,Smith and Turners Double Stout, a birthday present saved until Christmas Eve.
Heavy Industry - Forza
Some great dark beers this week.10 out of the 12 beers I drank were dark
pentrich -brklyn blackout
siren cold steeped porter
windswept -1806 stout
big hand -spectre stout
Twickenham -fig stout
saltaire -new grounds porter
brotherhood -ara
kew -camellia
otter -all black
sambrookes -Jaffa stout
fullers -expresso stout
BOTW
Weird Beard -black perle
I was in Cornwall over Christmas so their breweries dominate my list.
St Austell - Cornish Best
Skinners - Cornish Knocker
Sharps - Sea Fury
Padstow - Padstow Pilot
Cornish Brewery - St Blazey Bitter
St Austell - Tribute
Goulds Cider - Miss Trellis' Cider
St Austell - Proper Job
Bass - Bass Premium Ale
St Austell - Hicks Strong Ale
St Austell - HSD
Sharps - Sharps Original
Robinsons - Old Tom
Hardy & Hansons - Rocking Rudolph
Healy's Cornish Cyder Farm - Rattler Original
Ossett - Nervous Turkey
Tring - Abacus
Out of that lot my BotW is going to the Bass, largely because it was on gravity dispense and I always think that makes it taste better.