Thursday and Friday both spent at Tuckers Maltings beer festival with ensuing carnage.
from th remains of my programme I'll nominate
Quantock Nightjar 3.9%
packed with flavour and well balanced NZ hops. Defo a 3 pinter.
Honorable mentions to
Milk Street Mermaid
Yeovil Stout Hearted
Quantock Wills Neck
Bristol Beer Factory Acer
plus others too many to mention hic!
just 1 pint consumed this week so it has to be Tennent's lager
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Just one beer this week: BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell.
Decent week for me variety wise, but many of the Wetherspoon's festival beers were rather ho-hum. Tried this week:
Marstons - PacificGem.
Elgoods - Spring Gold.
Woods - Twist Grip.
Hilden - No.4.
Everards - Malty Tasker.
Batemans - Mocha.
Fernandes - Jackdaw MILD.
Fernandes - Nightjar.
Fernandes - Great Northern.
Rat - Black Rat.
Ilkley - Black.
Devil's Backbone - American Amber.
Vasileostrovsky - Siberian Red.
O'Hanlons - Red Ale.
Rat - Bonkers American IPA.
Dark Star - Art of Darkness.
Downton - Rye Smile.
Rat - Dirty Rat.
With honorable mentions for the Siberian Red and Art Of Darkness, the clear winner was the Bonkers IPA, an apparent experimental brew from Rat. Wonderful tropical fruit nose, with a smooth but intense hoppy mouthfeel. Even at 6.5%, it absolutely slid down.*
*Will, you would have absolutely hated it!
Last edited by aleandhearty; 29-04-2013 at 14:28.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A few to choose frpm this week :-
Sharp's Doombar 4.0%
Robinson's Hoptimus 4.1%
Robinson's Unicorn Bitter 4.3%
Cottage Duchess 4.2%
Conwy Riptide 4.3%
Conwy Cwrw Mêl 4.5%
Robinson's Double Hop 4.8%
Acorn Barnsley IPA 5.0%
Hyde's Burnt Sienna 5.0%
Brodie's Mosaic Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Simcoe Pale 5.0%
East London Quadrant Stout 5.8%
Celt Experience Continental Drift 5.9%
Brodie's Caramel Salt Brown 6.0%
Wickwar Station Porter 6.0%
Brodie's Dalston Black IPA (keykeg) 7.0%
Of five possible contenders the Conwy Cwrw Mêl (aka Honey Fayre) just crosses the line in front. It easily passed the three pint test at the Ty Mawr in Llanbedr (£2.65 a pint). It's a golden beer with a honey flavour that isn't overpowering.
By coincidence the Riptide from the same brewer at the Spoons George in Wanstead was also a contender.
BOTW Conwy Cwrw Mêl
Only one nights drinking this week
Abbeydale - Now Then
Empire - The Dragon
Mallinsons - Saaz
Malvern - Black Pear
Thornbridge - Sequoia
Purple Moose - Glaslyn Ale
Salopian - Lemon Dream
BOTW Empire - The Dragon
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Brains Milkwood
Brains Reverend James
Palmers Copper Ale
Butcombe Bitter
Gales HSB
Clear winner and not for the first time the ever reliable Darkstar American Pale Ale.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
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