Thuck Phat: Oakham Bishops Farewell
Bucking Fastard: Dark Star Six Hop Ale
Wittenden: Goody Ales Good Health
Real Ale Ray: Bowland Hen Harrier
Mobyduck: Dark Star American Pale Ale
london calling: Fullers Brithop
Thuck Phat: Oakham Bishops Farewell
Bucking Fastard: Dark Star Six Hop Ale
Wittenden: Goody Ales Good Health
Real Ale Ray: Bowland Hen Harrier
Mobyduck: Dark Star American Pale Ale
london calling: Fullers Brithop
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A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A quiet week with the only beer drunk, BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell, a worthy winner.
A solid session in a Fuller's pub had Black Cab Stout leading the field,but pipped at the post by Dark Star Six Hop Ale in The George ,Croydon ;a DS monthly special.At 6.5% not something you can just tip back,but a great hop sensation and the pint went down quicker than I initially expected.
Next week looks like a corker,boating back to Leicester and then some Blue Monkey action in Loughborough
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
After two publess weeks, several visits,but varied quality:
Goody Ales-Bleangate Brewery: Good Health.Quite aggresively hopped, stone fruit.Good.
Shepherd Neame:Early Bird. A few hops in there somewhere.
Harveys: Sussex Best Bitter. Tired. Note to self-try not to drink this except in a Harveys tied house.
St Austell: Tribute. Workmanlike, but why fetch it all the way to Kent, when we could be drinking Incubus?
Black Country:Bradley's Finest Golden. Another piney/citrussy Golden Ale. Why fetch it all the way to Kent?
Rother Valley: Level Best.Biscuity, earthy, a bit hoppier than when I used to drink this back in the '90s. Good stuff.
A toss up between the Goody and the Rother, but on reflection my BOTW is Goody Ales Good Health, if only because it is a Kentish ale drunk in Kent, rather than a Sussex beer drunk in Kent.
"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.
Very quiet variety-wise this week
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Cottage Mallard
Itchen Valley 1644 Battle of Cheriton
West Berks Berkshire Beauty
Easy winner- Darkstar American Pale Ale
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Some pretty boring brown beers on friday from
berrow
towles
three castles
rch
but Fullers -brithop 4.1 ticked all the boxes.
If you think I've spent the Easter weekend in the William IV for the Easter festival then you would be right!
I must say that the non-Brodie's offerings elsewhere did provide very strong opposition.
Brodie's Peanut Butter Mild 3.6%
Sambrook's Junction 4.5%
O'Hanlon's Port Stout 4.8%
Sambrook's Powerhouse Porter 4.9%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Centennial Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Nelson Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Mosaic Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Simcoe Pale 5.0%
Brentwood's Jolly Decent Wallop 5.2%
Kent Brewery Enigma 5.5%
Brodie's Caramel Salt Beer 6.0%
O'Hanlon's Diablo 6.0%
Black Jack Four of a Kind 6.8%
Brodie's Dopple Dunkle Wheat 6.9%
Brodie's Dalston Black 7.0%
Brodie's Cranberry IPA 7.0%
Brodie's Superior London Porter 7.8%
Brodie's Mocha Stout 9.0%
Brodie's Mocha Stout (Rum Barrel) (keykeg) 9.0%
Brodie's Mocha Stout (Port Barrel) (keykeg) 9.0%
Brodie's Romanov Stout 12.1%
Brodie's Elizabethan 22.0%
The winner is a keykeg offering namely the Rum Barrel aged Mocha Stout. The Rum barrel ageing just gave this the edge over the rest including the Port barrel aged one. It was £3.30 at the King William IV in Leyton.
BOTW Brodie's Mocha Stout Rum Barrel Aged (keykeg)
Theakston - Lightfoot
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Quite a long list to choose from
Roosters True Grit
Ridgeside Rushmore
Copper Dragon Black Gold
Abbeydale Absolution
Roosters Wild Mule
Kirkstall Dissolution IPA
Roosters Londinium
Thornbridge Kipling
Magic Rock Rapture
Belhaven Stout
Caledonian Drydock
Pheonix White Monk
Saltaire Triple chocoholic
Rudgate Chain Mail
Mostly good apart from the disappointing Rushmore from the usually reliable Ridgeside, but BOTW is Kirkstall Dissolution (again)