Started earlier today
beavertown -gamma ray 8/10
mikkeller -heated seats -9/10
gypsy hill -bandit 8/10
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Started earlier today
beavertown -gamma ray 8/10
mikkeller -heated seats -9/10
gypsy hill -bandit 8/10
Vocation Life & Death IPA.
6.5% deceptive and dangerous 9/10
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Any room at the bar? Bloody bar blockers.
Finished my Jaipur earlier, a perfect foil for my Chilli con Carne and rice, just started a Vocation Pride And Joy, very nice. Attachment 2061
This is my review of John,s Bar Brentford
One rectangular roomed bar to the rear of the property. Large table with 6 comfortable seats.Bit like a micropub but no nobheads trying to get into conversation with you.Charming,generous and witty mine host.Bottles and cans only but Watneys party seven on order.Been here a while and its a bit quiet apart from a tee-total woman who keeps coming in and tut tutting. She has left now.Bloody Nora she is back and is eating and drinking her own food.Obviously doesn't understand the pub etiquette. Free jukebox called Alexa helps the atmosphere. My end of the table now full of cans and bottles but no effort by the woman to clean up the table.Feels like a Wetherspoons on a smaller scale.Thank god she has gone again. Jeepers creepers she is back again and hogging the jukebox.Bloody woman is now singing and dancing to Sister Sledge-We Are Family. Cant hear myself chugging the beer.I am offski .Wonder where the nearest kebab shop is.
rating 3
By the way I took 27 pictures of the outside of the bar which i will post later.Fascinating use of net curtains.Wonder if English Heritage would be interested in this place.Check out photo no 27which I took from the top of a bus and appears to show a ghostly old woman at the top window but when I blew it up a bit it turned out to be a bit of pigeon shit on the bus window.
cheers john
Another two good uns
Brixton -atlantic ipa 8/10
Brixton -reliance pale ale 7.5/10
I'm just finishing up now having disposed of half a mini-keg of Rudgate Ruby Mild and a few cans of Roosters Yankee.
Entering into Aqualung territory now.
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A 9.0% Coffee bomb.
More beer from the Gardeners today: Joules Pale Ale 4.1%, which I've always thought of as fairly ordinary in a pub, but it seems to me a better beer served this way: no sparkler, poured into a plastic container and carried in a rucksack uphill for a mile before decanting into a glass. Probably won't catch on.
Planning on restocking the cellar here at the Wittenden's Retreat. has anyone any experience of beer made with kveik yeast? It has been discussed on various blogs, but I've never tried it. Good Things brewing does one:https://shop.goodthingsbrewing.co/co...ain-brewing-co
I've been enjoying the stash of their IPAs and PAs that I ordered the other week.
I've seen one on the shelf at my local bottle shop (The Dram Shop) but didn't know anything about it. Did some reading today and thought I'd try one next time I'm out shopping for essentials.
I have had 4 or 5 and was led to believe that it gives a fruity taste.Cant say it makes much difference but 4 out of the five were good beers.Both my local microbrewers had had a go and both good.Last one was Fearless Nomad (brewing in the Black Dog Brentford) who did a dark mild with kviek and was really good but sadly it was only on the bar 2 days before the closedown.Had a decent keg beer from Good Things in the Mitre Richmond and the landlord told me the couple who brew the beer in Kent have a flat around the corner from the pub and sometimes pop in .
Tried Adnams -Triple English Hop which was well dull.Made with surplus bread from M&S so here were the ingredients
hops ,water,barley,malted bread,wheat flour,calcium carbonate,iron ,niacin,thiamin,malted wheat flakes,wheat bran,yeast,vitamin d yeast,salt,emulsifier,e472e,e471,rapeseed oil,absorbic acid and oats. Yep just traditional ingredients.
My son in law called it Triple English Flop. Not far wrong there.
Last night I exhumed a rather out-of-date bottle of St Peters Plum Porter. The flavour was still good but the carbonation had all gone to buggery, so it wasn't great.
I've decided to use this opportunity to go to all the local supermarkets and try their wares, as I rarely drink at home bar sharing the Beer52 box with the missus. Living in central Reading I'm lucky enough to have a Lidl, Sainsdburys, Aldi, Waitrose, Tesco and M&S within walking distance.
I'll post-up any that take my fancy. Hopefully there'll be the odd gem or two...
My 48 cans of Vocation Smash and Grab arrived this morning. I've not even got through one third of their Imperial Stout yet!
Paul at Pictish Brewery in Rochdale is doing 5 litre Beer In A Box for £15, directly from the brewery doorway.
He can do 50 per day and sold out today. Luckily he'll have some more ready tomorrow. Choice of 4 of his beers as well.
I think Paul's going to survive this. :notworthy:
That's about £1.70 a pint which I'm sure is more than they get selling it to pubs.
ELB are throwing everything into off sales with free delivery in the East London area. I had my third and largest delivery on Tuesday which included 6 x 750ml bottles of so called IS. If the Jamboree is clear tomorrow then I'll try one!
Been struggling for beer but had notification today that Oakham back online, avg £2 per btl but in tough circumstances the £170 order was immediately submitted, incl some Green Devil.
When I previously had asked about unavailability of the shop area of the website I got a very detailed reply, incl where I might find their beers under different label, eg at m+s, and I have just had another message (from Nick) saying he wanted to notify me they were back online but could see I 'beat him to the punch' (ie order already placed), nice touch that, I thought.
First one up this evening Wild Beer Sleeping Lemons 3.6% .Described as a Gose,the preserved lemons and salt give it a sour taste,but a gingerish nose gives it a refreshing ,zesty monthfeel.Decent 7/10
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First one tonight All bought in Asda. Bad Co -west coast pale ale .gave it 7.5 then re rated it after the second tin to 8.00
Did have an Oakham Inferno lunchtime but first tonight is Amundsun Chuggernaut 4.7%,brought a couple of days ago in Cobbetts , a decent flavour but maybe a little thin tasting. 6/10
Bad Co -boston tea party. A very good neipa 8.0
Next one up Howling Hops House IPA 6.9% from a consignment direct from the brewery in Hackney Wick.Unfined and murky but lots of seville orange without overkill.A fine quaff and hides it strength very well 9/10
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Now onto Brewdog -zombie cake .good but only a 7 got 4 tins of it so might mix it with something else.
After that pokey Howling Hops House IPA ,now shifted to a can of Vocation Pure Pilsner to cleanse the palate . A cat piss nose ,bit of malt but not unpleasant .More a session drink but indestinct 6/10.
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Also had it on draft (an Americanism for draught )in Brewdog and was unimpressed but already had a couple of awesome (another Americanism for quite good)stouts before it so gave it another chance
Probably my last for this evening ,and the best. Vocation Life & Death. I got 4 small tins from Tesco but packed with flavours from hops to sweetness all in harmony .10/10.
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Currently on Siren Broken Dream from a bottle, it poured without a head but not at all flat?Great flavour. 8/10.
Just finished my second (and unfortunately last) four pint container of Joules Pale Ale 4.1%. It's the last because they reckoned they would probably sell out today and there are no plans to get any more in. (Just using up what was in the cellar when the pub closed on 20 March.) I've got about a pint of Slumbering Monk left - I wonder if I can stretch it out a bit by pouring it into one of those glasses that ladies use?