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    I've been concentrating on the Nags bottled selection this last week (now they're free of tie, it has improved!) and I'm very taken with the two Baccus beers, cherry and raspberry. So let's say Cherry Baccus as BOTW, probably will be the Raspberry next week

    At £4 a pop they're not that bad considering ale is £3.20 and lager around £3.60pp

    I also tried the Kwak, that silly one served in some funny wooden contraption. They didn't ask for my shoe as deposit which I believe is de rigeur elsewhere? Despite the gimmickry, it was quite a decent beer!

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    A Yorkshire lunchtime:
    Timothy Taylor-Golden Best Light MILD-always a treat and pleasure to drink this,malt driven and comforting.A North country answer to Larkins Traditional? A perfect session beer
    Saltaire-Raspberry Blonde- a new brewery for me, and a new style: a typical West Yorkshire tooth rasper meets cane fruit.Not as off putting as I first thought, an interesting struggle between sweet and sharp.Food for thought, but on balance my BOTW goes to [B]Golden Best[/B, as I could happily drink several pints of it.
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    A few decent pints in and around Hackney from which BOTW was Devilfish Bomb Shell.Never come across this micro before but if this beer was anything to go by,I wouldn't hesitate to try any of their output in the future.Sampled in The Duke of Wellington,Dalston.
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    Felt like a quiet week, but there do seem to be a few beers of interest on my list:
    St. Peter's MILD
    Oakham JHB and Inferno
    Fullers Wild River and London Porter
    Robinson's Globe Hopping
    H & W Hopping Hare
    Dark Star Hophead
    Black Sheep Bitter
    Caledonian Golden Sun

    BOTW is Robinson's Globe Hopping
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    Beers this week
    Skinners Hains Honey Hop - rebadge for Hains Line JDW I reckon.
    B & T SPA
    Frys Choc Drop
    Coastal Poseidon
    Skinners Royal Wave
    Dark Star American Pale Ale - contender
    St Austell Trelawney - yuk
    St Austell Dartmoor - yuk
    Purple Moose Glaslyn - contender
    Bath Ales Barney
    Branscombe Draymans
    RCH East Street
    Fullers ESB - not its usual good ale
    Hunters Full Bore 8% brill

    Seeing as we had a few of the Hunters at Watermill fest till it ran out, have to go with BOTW Hunters Full Bore
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    Quite an excessive Saturday what with the battle of the breweries at the Slip Inn followed by a visit to the Maltings to see if the extension was open yet (no); so it will have to be either a Roosters' or a Mallinsons', tempting as The Accomplice, the collaboration with Doug Odell, was; the beer of the battle and the week was Mallinsons' Galaxy
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    A pretty good week, with some excellent beers tasted:

    Kelham Island - Pale Rider.
    Box Steam - Broad Gauge.
    Rat - Golden Rat.
    Phoenix - Arizona.
    Loddon - Ferryman's Gold.
    Bob's - Chardonnayle.
    Dark Star - Hophead.
    Raw - Dark Peak Stout.
    Great Heck - Famous Five.
    Raw - Grey Ghost IPA.
    Fernandes - Taverner's Bitter.
    Fernandes - Nightjar.
    Fernandes - American Pale.
    York - Legacy.
    Fullers - Hope and Glory.
    Great Newsome - Sleck Dust.
    Roosters - Wild Mule.

    A tough choice this week, with the Famous Five just shading the Dark Peak Stout.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    Quite an excessive Saturday what with the battle of the breweries at the Slip Inn
    I wondered whether you'd go to that. I really wanted to, but family commitments made it impossible. An afternoon drinking Mallinsons and Roosters is pretty much my idea of heaven.
    'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aleandhearty View Post
    I wondered whether you'd go to that. I really wanted to, but family commitments made it impossible. An afternoon drinking Mallinsons and Roosters is pretty much my idea of heaven.
    It was and I got to meet the lovely and talented Tara (briefly) before she was whisked off by her sister brewster Elaine and Tom Fozard, Good to see the brewers/brewsters turn up and enjoy each others beers.

    Mallinsons won BTW but it was close.

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    Not much to shout about this week. Had a nice refreshing pint of Summer Lightning on Sunday but it just about gets edged out by Partners Ghost in the Green Dragon.

    I'm off to a music festival in France on Friday so things aren't exactly looking up on the beer front.

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