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Bucking Fastard: Vale Gravitas
Mobyduck: Gloucester Priory Pale
Wittenden: Old Dairy Copper Top
Aqualung: Six Bells Dark Angel
london calling: Bad Seed Session IPA
Thuck Phat: Blue Monkey Infinity
aleandhearty: Salopian Golden Thread
Komakino: Malt the Brewery Starry Nights
Real Ale Ray: Cronx Nektar
oldboots: Harrogate Kursaal Imperial Stout
ROBCamra: Dark Star Hophead DRY
Very decent week
St Austell -- Tribute
Hackney -- New Zealand Pale Ale
Brodies -- Azacca *
Hackney -- American Pale Ale
Peerless -- Triple Blonde *
Five Points -- Pale
Maldon -- Oscar Wilde MILD *
Frog Island -- Natterjack
Otley -- 05 Hop Angeles
Volden -- Porter *
Southwark -- Rukin' Red *
Whitstable -- Pale Ale
Oakham -- Inferno*
Fullers -- Bengal Lancer *
Windsor& Eton -- Zinzan's Drop*
Loose Cannon -- Abingdon Bridge *
Wuindsor& Eton -- Tree Tops
Chiltern -- Double Fifty
Vale -- Gravitas *
Kingstone -- Premium Stout
Some great ale on the crawl around Walthamstow with RAR and Mrs Ale,but BOTW goes to Vale Gravitas on top form in The Hop Pole,Aylesbury which just slipped down a treat.
Next week end month sessions with first visit to Tapping the Admiral ,so good chance of a quality BOTW.
A fair selection this week.
Quantock Nightjar
Arundel Castle
Gloucester Priory Pale
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Skinners Betty Stogs
Greene King Yardbird
Orkney Raven
Samuel Smiths OBB
Signature Brew Session
Celt Experience Dark Age Mild
Moncada Notting Hill Pale
Marble Chocolate
Longman APA
Wadsworth Dirty Rucker (BABOTW)
Oakham Citra
Tap East Coffee in the Morning
Some good and some dire, but the BOTW was Gloucester Priory Pale, an easy drinking 3.7% beer, extremely fruity and hoppy.
Kent and East Sussex:after last week's drought, a better day on Saturday.
FILO Brewery-Bourne Blonde 4% abv.Crisp,pale hoppy bitter.Grassy.I liked its description as a "light ale".
Romney Marsh-Best Bitter.4%abv. Robust caramel best:ripe fruit.Again, I can't fault the description.
Tonbridge-Rustic 4%abv(badged as Hoockers Hooch, house beer)Fruity dark bitter:lacking condition.These three taken at The Globe
Dark Star-American Pale Ale 4.7% abv.Lentenly austere pale ale.A salad of bitter herbs.This would have benefited from being drunk outdoors on a warm summer's evening.
Old Dairy-Copper Top 4.1%abv.Really approachable dark bitter.Farmyard hops,succulent malt.Taken at The Milk House and my BOTW.
A good week for me :-
Brentwood Blond 3.8%*
Adnam's Prop Hop 4.0%
Adnam's Mosaic 4.1%*
Quantock Wills Neck 4.3%
Oakleaf Pompey Royal 4.5%
Wadworth / Nausta Lapland Red Ale 4.5%
Titanic White Star 4.5%
Red White Duck 4.8%
Adnam's IPA 4.8%*
Mobberley Galena Stout 4.8%*
Titanic Plum Porter 4.9%*
Brodie's Californian 5.0%*
Dorset Midnight Blinder 5.0%
Hop Back Summer Lightning 5.0%
Brodie's Black APA 5.0%*
Jennings Snecklifter 5.1%
Phipps Gold Star 5.2%*
Slater's Haka 5.2%*
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.4%*
Red Kangaroo 5.4%
Springhead Roaring Meg 5.5%*
Six Bells Dark Angel 5.6%*
Lymestone The Abominable Stoneman 7.0%*
The winner is the Six Bells Dark Angel (£3.30) as tried at this Joules pub in Newcastle-Under-Lyme which turned out to be an excellent town. I would call it a strong dry Coffee Stout, it has very little sweetness considering the ABV. Honourable mention must go to all three Brodie's beers and the Abominable Stoneman.
BOTW Six Bells Dark Angel
Some pretty good beers and some pretty poor.
POOR
listers -limehouse porter
paradigm -strong and dark
crafty devil-mikey rayer
crafty devil-safe as milk
crafty devil -straight out of canton
wishbone -gumption
black edge -cascade pale
one mile end -black ipa
GOOD
celt -cerridwen
celt -horse cranium
hopcraft -temple of love
waen -mellowdrama
bad seed-session ipa BOTW
An interesting week with some decent stuff:
Phipps NBC IPA*
Loose Cannon Abingdon Bridge*
Windsor & Eton Zinzan's Drop*
W & E Tree Tops
Brandon Slippery Jack
Vale Gravitas*
Kingstone Premium Stout*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Blue Monkey Infinity*
Several contenders there, especially the Vale Gravitas but BOTW was Blue Monkey Infinity. Excellent.
Good week for me, with several rhubarb infused beers, tried over the weekend, at Wakefield Rhubarb Festival.
Fernandes - Rhubarb & Custard.
Shiny - Pail.*
Great Heck - Dave.*
Great Heck - Proverbs 31:7.
Ossett - Columbia Creek.
Fernandes - Ale to the Tsar.
Ossett / Brass Castle - Rampart. (keg)
Hamelsworde - Dame Ruby Rhubarb.
Rat - White Rat.
Magic Rock - Rhubarbarella (Rhubarb Braggot)*# (keg)
Neepsend - Blonde.
Salopian - Golden Thread.*
Rat - Cheating Rat.
Rat - Smoked Rat.*
Bad Co - Love over Gold.*
Imperial -Hop Bomb.
Imperial - Stout Wi' Nowt Taken Out.
# A braggot is a a beer/mead hybrid,where honey is used to replace some of the fermentable sugars.
Quite hard to choose this week. The Golden Thread, Love over Gold and Smoked Rat were all excellent and the Rhubarbarella was surprisingly enjoyable (and strong at 7%!). For sheer drinkability, the Salopian just shades it.
Apart from Black Edge, I've not heard of any of those. Maybe just as well, from what you're saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
Up and down week for me. A few local revisits on a 'Magical Mystery Tour' with a mate midweek, as well as finishing off Windsor Central on Friday, then the real ale wilderness of Langley on Sunday (as well as a visit to The Lynchpin!). Did have an excellent pint of Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter (3.8%) at The Boatman in Windsor, however, the winner for me was a local brew, with Malt the Brewery's Starry Nights (4.0%). Dark in colour, but fruity as hell, and sessionable, this was a great start to our Wednesday night adventures - as sampled at The Nags Head.
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Originally Posted by aleandhearty
The luck of the draw with ticking beers.Heres a bit more info
Listers -west Sussex the third beer from this new brewer and all dull(wont try again) Express Tavern Brentford
paradigm -Rickmansworth 2nd beer from them ist okay-but this was in poor condition and very sweet ( pubs fault) Express tavern
crafty devil -Cardiff all on key keg (lacking any great flavour) Brewdog shepherds bush
wishbone -keithley (lacking flavour) Craft beer co covent garden
black edge -Horwich (lacking hops) 3 Johns Islington
one mile end -London -filthy condition Alma Islington
Some very good beers last week on our Walthamstow crawl with BF and a day in Cambridge:
ELB - Pale Ale
Hackney - New Zealand Pale
Shortts Farm - Blondie
Bristol Brew Co - Southville Hop
Oakham - Green Devil
Redemption - Big Chief
Cronx - Nektar BOTW
Thanks for the breakdown LC. The real surprise is Wishbone, as they're really just down the road in Keighley. With the West Yorkshire market being so crowded, it's perhaps understandable I've not come across those from further afield, but with sampling 450-500 beers a year, I should have come across Wishbone by now.Quote:
Originally Posted by london calling
They had about 6 of their beers on that week and I only went to the pub with a slim hope that a Wishbone beer was still on.My findings may not reflect how good or bad this brewer is.Quote:
Originally Posted by aleandhearty
A bit late this week. An incredibly difficult choice between Brass Castle Bad Kitty and Harrogate Brewing Co's Kursaal Imperial Stout. As it was barrel aged for six months the Kursaal Imperial Stout just has it.
Dark Star Hophead DRY. The usual 3.8% but dry hopped with Cascade & Amarillo.
It really is dry as well, once you've drunk one you need another to get some moisture back in your mouth.
Tried several times in The Baum.:cheers: