Kirkstall Tun 7% - WOW!
For the second week running Dark Star Revelation in a different pub ,this time The George ,Croydon.Despite being served in a plastic mug due to Palace v Brighton that evening,it still outshone the Thornbridge and Abbeydale beers on a swift trip to Sheffield.....it really was that good
No pub this week, but I tried a couple of good Kentish 5% golden ales in boittle that I pickd up a few weeks ago: Golden Ticket from spa Brewery/Royal Tunbridge Wells Brewery-I think they are one and the same, and Hengist from the Wantsum Brewery at the old Chislet Colliery site near Canterbury. The Golden Ticket marginally gets my nomination, but they were both hoppy and tasty, and I look forward to drinking them from cask, though neither brewewry seems to reach my particular neck of the Weald.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
Project Venus - Venus Black
Dorset Brewing Co – Ammonite
Oakham – Citra
Oakham – Dreamcatcher
Leeds - Midnight Bell
Orkney – Red McGregor
Magic Rock – Rapture
Havant – Started
Fullers – Jack Frost
Dark Star – Smoked Porter, a former BOTW,but served a tad too cold and not so good in the George in Fleet St.
A real toss-up between the Magic Rock Rapture in the Craft Beer Co and Oakham Dreamcatcher in the Lamb in Surbiton, but I think I’ll plump for the Dreamcatcher
'Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable' - Python
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Black Sheep
Fullers London Pride
Fullers Benghal Lancer
Wooden Hand Pirate's Gold
Wentworth Rock Spalt
Both the Bishops and the Rock Spalt were excellent but BOTW was Fullers Benghal Lancer.
Revolutions Severin Dark and Dark Star Milk Chocolate Stout were both good contenders this week, but I've got to give BOTW to the excellent Fuller's London Porter which I was pleased to find the cask version of in the Star Tavern, Belgravia.
My beer of the week is Thornbridge Jaipur tried in the Twitchell Inn in Long Eaton,this went down very well and it is only the third pub i have been in this year.