Beer of the Week (w/e 3rd March 2013)

[ROBCamra]

Oggwyn Trench: Bartrams Comrade Bill Bartrams Egalitarian Anti-Imperialist Soviet Stout
Bucking Fastard: Red Squirrel Conservation Bitter
Mobyduck: Milk Street Beer
Aqualung: Brentwood Boston Brown
Wittenden: Brecon Genesis ii Imperious Beacons
hondo: Ossett Brewery Patriot Pale
gillhalfpint: Great Yorkshire Chocolate Orange
aleandhearty: Brew Co Tantalus
Real Ale Ray: Northumberland Gundog Bitter
MJ71: Titanic Plum Porter
Thuck Phat: Blue Bee Red White and Blue
oldboots: Elland Tomahawk
ROBCamra: Hop Studio XP

[Oggwyn Trench]

Good week to start the month with

Ringwood - Boondoggle
Pictish - Warrior
Pictish - Chinook
Doctor Mortons - Bag O Nuts
Ossett - Route 66
Abbeydale - Theology
Jarrow - Westoe IPA
Tiny Rebel - Full Nelson
Morton - Scrumage
Bartrams - Soviet Stout
Bartrams - Little Green Man
Empire - True Blone
Brew Dog - Punk IPA (Fizzy Craft Keg)

BOTW Deep Breath the full name is a long one , Bartrams - Comrade Bill Bartrams Egalitarian Anti-Imperialist Soviet Stout , very smooth and dangerously moreish at 6.9%

[Bucking Fastard]

A very poor week for beer,a session on McMullens Cask enough to turn anyone teetotal but a very decent pint of Red Squirrel Conservation Bitter making my BOTW in the unlikely surroundings of The Blackbirds,Hertford.

Next week passing through Stoke Bruerne might get lucky,more likely BOTW in The George prematch.

[Mobyduck]

Very restricted in beer variety this week due to spending to much time at work ,(not by choice).
Milk Street Folklore
Milk Street Mermaid
Milk Street Beer
Skinner's Betty Stogs

Milk Street Beer , 5% a bit sweet tasting for me but easily won BOTW for this week.

[Aqualung]

A fair selection this week, none of them were unimpressive.

Bragdy Conwy Balchder Cymru 4.0%
Brain's St David's Ale 4.1%
London Fields Love Not War 4.2%
Brentwood Boston Brown 4.4%
O'Hanlon's Original Port Stout 4.8%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Cronx Entire 5.2%
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.3%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Brodie's Superior London Porter 7.8%

The three contenders were the Cronx Entire, the St David's Ale (Brains can brew a decent beer if they try!) and the Boston Brown. The award goes to the Boston Brown simply because it was something a bit different and served in excellent condition at £2.09 in the King's Ford at Chingford. It's an American Brown so the appearance is more like a boring brown bitter but it is rather different in that it has a slight sweetness with a more subtle hop flavour than most English bitters.

BOTW Brentwood Boston Brown

[Wittenden]

Kent,London 'n' Essex. All good, nothing exceptional:
Brecon:Genesis 2:ii Imperious Beacons-dark brown dry bitter chocolate Imperial Welsh Stout. On reflection, an ambitious choice for 1120 am.
Adnams : Southwold bitter-sometimes, "old friends are best."A blast from the North Sea. Unfortunately, the Ghost Ship ran out.
Adnams:Broadside-Dark ruby,luscious malt,just this side of sweet.Another old friend.
Buxton: Moor Top-Pale with a seaweedy twang, reminiscent of Adnams in the 70s.
Dark Star: Sussex Extra Stout- Black,dry and smooth, but disappointingly one dimensional for this brewery.
Shepherd Neame: Amber Ale-Tasty malts and farmyard hops without the astringency associated with Master Brew. Actually, this was the sole beer drunk w/e 24th.Feb.
My BOTW Brecon:[I]Genesis 2:ii Imperious Beacons

[oldboots]

Quite a varied week,

Timothy Taylor Landlord
Saltaire Blonde
Pheonix Pale Moonlight
Rudgate Ruby Mild
Rat Black Rat
Knaresborough Choco-Mint Milk Stout
Hawkshead Hybred
Tetley Cask
Fernandes Marynka
Liverpool Organic Kitty Wilkinson
Elland Tomahawk
Oates Summit
Acorn Bullseye
Ossett Big Red
Acorn Pride of Yorkshire
Rudgate Viking
Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild
Brains St Davids Ale
Greene King Abbott Ale

In spite of having a Sarah Hughes BOTW is a pale hoppy one - Elland Tomahawk

[ROBCamra]

Hop Studio XP for me this week, tried in THe Baum.

A nice hoppy beer without being a hop bomb and at 4% a beer you can have a few of.