Beer of the Week (w/e 15th August 2021)

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15-08-2021, 21:07
ROBCamra

Beer of the Week (w/e 15th August 2021)

:cheers:
16-08-2021, 11:30
Thuck Phat

Quality over quantity:

Marstons Old Empire IPA*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Milltown On with the Motley*
Henry Smith English IPA*

Tough call as all four passed the 3 pint test with flying colours.

BOTW Henry Smith English IPA. A new brewery for me and this 5%er was exactly as named.
16-08-2021, 13:47
Bucking Fastard

Hoxton

Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Five Points -- Best
Beavertown -- Gamma Ray (keg)
Siren -- White Session IPA (keg)
Five Points -- Pale (keg)
Sharp's -- Doom Bar

Uninspiring and with several pubs only offering a single handpump with London Pride I was forced down the keg route where BOTW goes to Siren White Session IPA in the Barley Mow.

Next week footie so much depends on the guest ales in the 'spoons.
16-08-2021, 14:21
Spinko

Captain Cook Brewery - Skippy.

A shame I was driving... :(
16-08-2021, 16:57
Mobyduck

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard

Hoxton

Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Five Points -- Best
Beavertown -- Gamma Ray (keg)
Siren -- White Session IPA (keg)
Five Points -- Pale (keg)
Sharp's -- Doom Bar

Uninspiring and with several pubs only offering a single handpump with London Pride I was forced down the keg route where BOTW goes to Siren White Session IPA in the Barley Mow.

Next week footie so much depends on the guest ales in the 'spoons.

Yes I was in the Barley Mow Saturday, very disappointed to find just the one cask beer on. Only two in The Old Fountain and five down from ten in The Wenlock!
16-08-2021, 17:09
Tris39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mobyduck

Yes I was in the Barley Mow Saturday, very disappointed to find just the one cask beer on. Only two in The Old Fountain and five down from ten in The Wenlock!

Real ale seems to have almost died out in London; your above stats don't surprise me. The Express is doing sterling work with all ten working, but the Cock in Hackney only has about three out of 16 and the last time I passed the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington, seven pumps were down to five with just one working!

My BOTW (in fact only BOTW) was a great pint of Five Points Best at the Star by Hackney Downs.
16-08-2021, 17:13
Mobyduck

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Real ale seems to have almost died out in London; your above stats don't surprise me. The Express is doing sterling work with all ten working, but the Cock in Hackney only has about three out of 16 and the last time I passed the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington, seven pumps were down to five with just one working!

My BOTW (in fact only BOTW) was a great pint of Five Points Best at the Star by Hackney Downs.

The Harp was up to speed on the beers but the quietest I've ever seen it at 11.30 on a Saturday lunchtime.
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16-08-2021, 18:10
Wittenden

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Originally Posted by Mobyduck

The Harp was up to speed on the beers but the quietest I've ever seen it at 11.30 on a Saturday lunchtime.
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Bloomin 'eck! On my rare visits to that London I've taken to missing the Harp, as it was always unpleasantly busy,even in pre-Covid days. Think I might chance it next time.
16-08-2021, 21:17
Bucking Fastard

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mobyduck

Yes I was in the Barley Mow Saturday, very disappointed to find just the one cask beer on. Only two in The Old Fountain and five down from ten in The Wenlock!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tris39

Real ale seems to have almost died out in London; your above stats don't surprise me. The Express is doing sterling work with all ten working, but the Cock in Hackney only has about three out of 16 and the last time I passed the Jolly Butchers in Stoke Newington, seven pumps were down to five with just one working!

The London real ale scene has taken a battering.The Cask in Pimlico is regularly down to just three ales,and I hear much reduced ranges at Craft Beer Co. in both Leather Lane and High Holborn.Their outlet in Old Street is now a cocktail lounge.The drift towards keg pre Covid has turned into a tsunami .:(
16-08-2021, 21:17
Mobyduck

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Originally Posted by Wittenden

Bloomin 'eck! On my rare visits to that London I've taken to missing the Harp, as it was always unpleasantly busy,even in pre-Covid days. Think I might chance it next time.

It did pick up a bit,this picture was taken exactly an hour later.
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But still not as rammed as it used to be.
16-08-2021, 21:43
Mobyduck

London,Surrey and Hants.

Cask

Oakham OPA
Loddon Hallabalo
Howling Hops Lock The Gates*
Bad Seed Contact Point
Anspatch & Hobday Summer Pale
Dark Star Orbiter
Harveys Dark Mild*
Disruption Azacca*
Milestone New World Pale
Stockport Stock Porter
Slaughterhouse Altbier*
Gun Project Babylon*
Georges Checkpoint Charlie
Ascot Grumpy Landlord

Keg

Siren/Big Smoke Cosmic Collider*
Pollys Sound Surrender*
Pollys Butterfly Effect*
Pressure Drop Pale Fire
Five Points XPA
Beavertown Neckoil
Verdant Light Bulb
Deya Steady Rolling Man*
Disruption Chaos More Chaos*

Much as Bucking Fastard found, I was forced onto keg through lack of cask in some venues in London, though in the main good keg. Cask quality was mixed but provided BOTW in the form of Howling Hops Lock The Gates, a really tasty pale ale enjoyed in The Harp.