Beer of the Week (w/e 28th July 2013)
Aqualung: Dark Star Red Shift
Bucking Fastard: Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
Real Ale Ray: Bowland Patriot
Mobyduck: Dark Star Hylder Blonde
Thuck Phat: Triangle Golden
london calling: Nicholsons IPA
PaulOfHorsham: Bristol Beer Factory Bitter Kiwi
Wittenden: Tonbridge Copperknob
oldboots: Hop Studio Gold
aleandhearty: Oakham Endless Summer
Old Blue: Tomislav
ROBCamra: Rat Rattus Sambucus
Last edited by ROBCamra; 02-08-2013 at 13:54.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A week of two halves with cider in the first half and beer in the second.
Hook Norton Old Hooky 4.6%
Sunny Republic Dorset Cross 5.0%
Clarence & Frederick's IPA 5.2%
Brodie's Jamaican Stout 5.3%
Dark Star Red Shift 5.5%
London Fields Shoreditch Triangle 6.0%
Brodie's Hackney Red 6.0%
Brodie's Oyster Tea Stout (Keykeg) 7.0%
Brodie's Dalston Black (Keykeg) 7.0%
It's between the Dark Star and the C&F, but the clear winner is the Dark Star one served in perfect condition early doors at the Cap in Hand Spoons on the Hook underpass for £2.45. It's a typical orangey red crystal malt brew with a pile of hops to overcome excess sweetness.
BOTW Dark Star Red Shift
Two sessions in great weather led to reasonable consumption.
Mc Mullens - Cask
Mc Mullens - IPA (The person buying the round made a mistake )
Brew House - Lemon Grass
Harviestoun - Old Engine Oil
Harviestoun - Schiehallion
Although the Scheihallion sailed through the three pint test on a hot night,BOTW goes to Harviestoun Old Engine Oil ,a very good porter well balanced by the subtle hoppy bitter finish ,supped in Doggets .
All work on the old tub now finished,so heading north up the Trent and Mersey after a long stay in Lichfield.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Bowland - Patriot
A very short week variety wise ,All Darkstar,
American Pale Ale
Hophead
Hylda blonde
Clear winner is Hylder Blonde
Last edited by Mobyduck; 28-07-2013 at 21:18.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A decent one this week:
Oakham - Bishops Farewell, Inferno, Attila
Barrowden - 7 Ryders, Hop Gear
Nene Valley - BSA
Hopshackle - Humopulus
Dr Mortons - Pocket Anchovies
Elgoods - Easy Spider
Triangle - Golden
Dark Star - Hophead
Titanic - Sundeck
Brancaster - Best, Oystercatcher, The Wreck
Many excellent brews there with BOTW going to Triangle Golden. A new brewery to me and this 3.8%er with a delicious hoppy finish flew down on a hot day beating the Hophead and Inferno for needing another one.
A full weeks drinking with trips to Otley and Leeds
Rudgate Zest is Best
Salopian Darwins Origins
Elland Beyond the Pale
Acorn Barnsley Bitter
Wharfebank Summer Ale
Ilkley Mary Jane
Wharfebank Tether Blonde
Okells MPA
Ossett Yorkshire Blonde
Thwaites Wainwright
Robinsons Dizzy Blonde
Ilkley Lotus IPA
Hambleton Royal Foal
Leeds Pale
Hop Studio Gold
Partners Blonde
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin
Marstons Brakspears Oxford Gold
Theakstons Old Peculier
T Taylors Landlord
Moohouses Dr Rudi
Cumbrian Legendary Loweswater Gold
Oakham Green Devil IPA
Kirkstall Dissolution IPA
In spite of Dissolution and Green Devil being on the list BOTW is Hop Studio Gold
A very sociable week, with plenty of beer. Met 'oldboots', 'sheffield hatter' and 'trainman' on Wednesday, in Otley. Then spent a peripatetic Saturday afternoon with 'sheffield hatter' again, visiting Castleford, Horbury and Ossett. Tried this week:
Cottage - Boundary.
Moorhouses - Blond Witch.
Rat - Rat in the Hat.
Walls - Northallerton Dark.
WharfeBank - Summer Ale.
Tetley - Mild.
Walls - Summer Gold.
Walls - Gun Dog.
Acorn - Burning Bails.
Bingley - Myrtle Velvet Stout.
Copper Dragon - Best.
Leeds - Pale.
Castle Rock - Harvest Pale.
Thwaites - Nutty Black.
St Austell - Tribute.
Briscoe's - Barden Bitter. *
Kirkstall - North Prototype.
Thornbridge - Jaywick. *
Buxton - Rednick Stout.
Ridgeside - Innuendo.
Old Bear - Airedale.
Bosun Brewing Co. - Maiden Voyage.*
Roosters - Yankee.
Oakham - Endless Summer.
Partners - IPA.
Salamander - Bad Penny Porter.
Fernandes - Simcoe.*
Pennine - Sun Stone.
Acorn - Madness.
Five Towns - Davy Jones Locker.
Those beers asterisked were ones I particularly enjoyed, unfortunately only one of them was in Otley. Oakham have another winner in Endless Summer. Fantastic flavour for 3.4% and just the job for a hot sticky afternoon.
Last edited by aleandhearty; 29-07-2013 at 12:09.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Tomislav - a Croatian dark beer, maybe sort of an Old Peculiar for hot climates, drunk amongst other places in a superb locals' bar in Split, appropriately named 'Buza'.
'Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable' - Python
Rat - Rattus Sambucus.
It doesn't sound too promising as it's made with Elderflower pollen.
However it just works and it was a great pint (or two) in The Baum on a red hot evening.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
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