Beer of the Week (w/e 22nd July 2012)
hondo: Abbeydale Doctor Morton's Essence Fumour
Millay: Coach House Brewing Toffee
Wittenden: Timothy Taylor Landlord
Mobyduck: Hopback Summer Lightning
Real Ale Ray: Bathams Best Bitter
Al 10000: Blue Bee Bees Knees
Oggwyn Trench: Purple Moose Dark Side of the Moose
Bucking Fastard: George Wright Lubelski 41
aleandhearty: Fernandes Simcoe
oldboots: RAW Anubis Porter
ROBCamra: Kelham Island King Of The Rocket Men
Pubsignman: Bateman's Summer Swallow
Alesonly: Sharps Doom Bar
Last edited by ROBCamra; 28-07-2012 at 10:34.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Doctor Morton's Essence Fumour
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
My palate seems to be confused these days and I find I enjoy sweet beers more and more. So the excellent pint of Coach House Brewing Co. Toffee that I'm drinking right now is my BotW. (In Crown & Kettle Manchester )
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.
One damp visit to the pub on Wednesday:the Summer Lightning went off as I ordered it, so compared and contrasted two stalwarts-Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter and Timothy Taylor's Landlord (without the sparkler as we were in Kent.).Surprisingly, as both were on good form, I favoured the Landlord: keener hops and well defined malt. My BOTW.
"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.
Beers this week
Otter Brewery-Otter Amber
Branscombe Vale-Branoc
Branscombe Vale-Draymans Bitter
Hopback- Summer Lightning
Courage- Best
Alliance Brewery-Alliance Best Bitter
Sharps-Doom Bar
Gales H.S.B.
Darkstar-Hophead
Wychwood-Hobgoblin
Plus
Weston's Traditional Scrumpy
BOTW because of its superior conditioning is Summer Lightning
Last edited by Mobyduck; 22-07-2012 at 19:46.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Good selection this week:
Bathams - Best Bitter
Rock & Roll Brewhouse - Bee Hop Deluxe
Thornbridge - Brother Rabbit
Wye Vally - Flower Power
Kinver - Light Railway
Holdens - Golden Glow
Holdens - MILD
Cottage - Blaze of Glory
Salopian - Conundrum
Salopian - Shropshire Gold
Plus many more tried at the Black Eagle Beer Fest in Birmingham, but the favourite this week is Bathams Best Bitter
Lots of beers tried yesterday
Blue Bee - Bees Knees bitter
Thwaites - Original bitter
Shepherd Neame - Spitfire
Taylor - Landlord
Bradfield - Farmers Blonde
Gk - IPA
Sheffield - Crucible bitter
John Smiths - Magnet Keg
Gk - Old Golden Hen
Tetley - Bitter
Black Sheep - Bitter
Marstons - Pedigree
Abbeydale - Moonshine
Most beers were quite nice and my beer of the week goes to Blue Bee Bees Knees bitter
A bit of a mixed bag, a few really mediocre beers and several outstanding ones mostly drunk in Otley at Leeds CAMRA Pub of the Year, get there if you can.
Camerons First Gold
Barngates Tenacious Ted
Taylors Golden Best
Corfu/Everards Koroibos
Ilkley Mary Jane
Briscoes Chevin Light
Rodhams Rubicon
Bob's Brewing White Lion
Wharfebank Tether Blonde
Raw Anubis Porter
Copper Dragon Best Bitter
Taylors Landlord
Rudgate Ruby Mild
Moorhouses Blond Witch
Hopback Summer Lightning
BOTW though is the RAW Anubis Porter - black as yer 'at, coffee flavoured goodness.
No socks blown off for me either this week despite visiting Port Street Beer House and enjoying all 4 of the pints I had there.
I think BOTW is going to be Kelham Island King Of The Rocket Men tried several times in The Baum. Light, but not a hop bomb, just a decent ale.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Goachers Dark Mild was front runner until it was pipped at the last by Bateman's Summer Swallow in the uninspiring surrounds of the Richmal Crompton, Bromley.
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