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hondo: Windsor & Eton Guardsman
Thuck Phat: Titanic Pier 54
Mobyduck: Roosters Wild Mule
Bucking Fastard: Ilkley Lotus IPA
Wittenden: Greene King XX MILD
Aqualung: Hopcraft Ta Moko Black IPA
aleandhearty: Ilkley Lotus IPA
oldboots: Hand Drawn Monkey IPA
london calling: Windsor & Eton Conqueror
Real Ale Ray: Collingham Journeyman
ROBCamra: Ilkley Lotus IPA
Windsor & Eton - Guardsman
Decent week:
Blue Monkey US Ape
Orkney Dark Island
Downton Endeavour
Titanic Pier 54
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Nobby's Plum Porter
Marble Manchester Bitter
All very good but it's between the Pier 54 and the Endeavour, a delicious 10% double IPA. BOTW Titanic Pier 54 - red, brewed with American hops and at 5.4% hugely drinkable due to its malty start and bitter finish. Fantastic.
Roosters - Wild Mule
Darkstar - Six Grain
Darkstar - American Pale Ale
Three Tuns - Rich Ruby
Not many to choose from this week and as good as the Darkstar beers were the Roosters - Wild Mule was fantastic, described on ratebeer as an American Pale Ale but actually using New Zealand Nelson Sauvin Hops (New World Pale Ale ?), Was my BOTW and passed the three pint test with ease at only 3.9 %, barely touching the sides.
All but the first sampled in Leeds and not a bad beer among them.
Mc Mullens -- Country Bitter
Great Heck -- Citra
Ridgeside -- Rushmore
Leeds -- Gathering Storm
Ilkley -- Lotus IPA
Kirkstall -- Pale
Wharfbank -- Aztec Orange
Kelburn -- Dark Moor
Beavertown -- Benzara
Beavertown -- Smog Rocket
Kirkstall -- Three Swords
Roosters -- Yankee
Magic Rock -- Rapture
BOTW goes to Ilkley Lotus IPA from The Botanist,in the running for beer of the year.
Next week ,a night in Cov then down the Falcon ,Clapham Junction end of the week,so there should be a few BOTW contenders.
Excellence from St Edmund:
Old Dairy-Red Top . 3.8%abv-Nutty and autumnal.A pleasure to drink.(The Milk House,Sissinghurst).
Greene King-XX MILD.3%abv. Luscious dark East Anglian MILD .Chocolately,like slow moving lowland rivers:a classic.(TheWoodcock,Iden Green).
For the second week running, my BOTW is an East Anglian Dark MILD: Greene King XX MILD.
An unusual week for me with several beers from a local beer festival.
Bath Forest Hare 3.8%
Geeves No. 1 3.8%
Pixie Spring Tidy Bitter 4.1%
Wood Street Devil's Walking Stick 4.2%
Nelson Powder Monkey 4.2%
Clouded Mind's Luppol 4.2%
Abbeydale Moonshine 4.3%
Coach House Christmas Cracker 4.3%
Caledonian / Stone Session IPA 4.4%
Brew Company Yellow Rose 4.5%
Burton Bridge Knot Brown Ale 4.8%
Brentwood Weald Porter 4.9%
Abbeydale Horrible Skellington 4.9%
Imperial Oh Mr Porter 5.0%
Stonehenge Old Smokey 5.0%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Hawkshead Cumbrian Five Hop 5.0%
Double Top Madhouse Porter 5.2%
Hopcraft Ta Moko Black IPA 5.5%
Imperial FSB 5.6%
Marston's Old Empire 5.7%
Adnams / Pretty Things Jack D'Or IPA 6.0%
Dark Star Imperial Stout 10.5%
It boils down to a choice between the Brentwood Weald Porter and the Hopcraft Ta Moko Black IPA. The winner is the Ta Moko Black IPA at £2.60 in the Leyton King William IV. Their sister company's Pixie Spring Tidy Bitter was an outstanding boring brown bitter.
BOTW Hopcraft Ta Moko Black IPA
As expected, most of this week's consumption was in Leeds, on Friday. A great day's drinking threw up some fantastic beers, with barely a duff one all day.
Red Squirrel - Hopfest.
Rat - Verminator.
Marlborough - Ramsbury Lite.
Fernandes - Great Northern.
Great Heck - Citra.
Leeds - Gathering Storm.
Great Newsome - Frothingham Best.
Collingham - Winter Warmer.
Cumbrian - Loweswater Gold.
Ilkley - Lotus IPA.
Acorn - Agnus IPA.
Acorn - Gorlovka.
Anarchy Brew Co. - Grim and Bare It.
York - Terrier.
Kelburn - Dark Moor.
WharfeBank - Fair Dinkum.
Beavertown - Benzerra.
Quantum - American Light.
Sonnet 43 - Ultimate Sacrifice.
Red Willow - Heartless Chocolate Stout.
Black Edge - IPA.
Some very strong contenders in there, but the Lotus IPA was the pick of the bunch.
Not a bad week and extremely difficult to choose:
Roosters Cogburn
York Centurions Ghost
Leeds Midnight Bell
Hand Drawn Monkey IPA
Gt Heck Citra
Leeds Gathering Storm
Elland Beyond the pale
Leeds Pale
Ilkley Lotus IPA
Acorn Gorlovka
Anarchy Brew Co Grin & Bear it
Revolutions Treason Stout
Kelburn Dark Moor
Beartown Smokey Porter
Kirkstall Three Swords
Collingham Journeyman
Fullers Gales Seafarer
Robinsons Tom & Berry
Roosters Wild Mule
Brass Castle Tail Gunner
Partners Shoddy Porter
Leeds Saisionesque
Tiny Rebel Full Nelson
Inveralmond Ossian
Otley O5 Hopangeles
Old Mill Blonde Bombshell
Naylors Black Powder
it's Hand Drawn Monkey IPA but only just
A pub crawl around Ladbroke Grove yesterday for my sons birthday found lots of common but good beers.
best were
Adnams -ghost ship
leeds -gathering storm
and the best was
w+eton -conqueror a superb beer.
That's a good list of beers.Where did you get the newest and rare new London brewery Clouded Minds. cheers johnQuote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
Collingham - Journeyman
Obviously in the William IV! It's the second of theirs I've tried and this was better than the first but nothing special compared to Brodie's or Hopcraft. I know nothing about the brewer, I wasn't even aware that they were London based.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
The best time to visit the William is at the weekend as the beer range can be poor mid-week, but they always seem to have loads of the overpriced keg stuff on.
I'm glad you vindicated my opinion of W&E Conqueror. I can't get enough of these black IPA beers.
Thanks for the info .Last time I went to the William it was 2 hrs door to door so its a bit far. Got to Leicester quicker. Agree about the black ipa,s. cheers john
I'm going with the flow this week by choosing Ilkley Lotus IPA.
It was a good decision to do an off piste swerve to The Botanist last Friday.
A high class establishment with some high class views available. ;)
Apart from us of course who dragged the level downwards somewhat.
I also notice that BF has nicked my Jack Whitehall comment for his review. :moremad:
Wow! Well you're in town enough LC, it's a short bus or a 0.8m walk down from Walthamstow; you sure that 2hrs didn't include a few jokers en route..?Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
It was a very good comment ,just wanted to make sure it got an airing .Will happily delete if you feel your IP has been infringed;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ROBCamra
No problem. I'll just slag you off (Northern terminology) for nicking it when I do my review. :evilgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard
due to work on the underground this was my route.Quote:
Originally Posted by trainman
12mins walk to Kew bridge 5 mins wait for the bus to Gunnersbury 10 min journey then 5 mins wait for the train to Hackney central.50 minute journey then 5 minutes walk to catch a bus outside the Pembury 10 minute wait for bus then 15 mins on bus and a 3/4 minute walk from the bus stop.All times approx. And you know what I specifically went there for an ipa fest and I didn't think much of the 3 I tried. The Hopcraft beer I got was good though.cheers john
Yes, I think they try to put too many on during their periodic festivals; I've noticed the beers often don't seem ready, or cared-for. I'd swerve fests there for the time being, tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
What a mare of a journey!!