A pub is for life not just for Christmas
All proper beer for this week has now been drunk.
BOTW Tiny Rebel Full Nelson, in The Baum of course.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A long list due to a crawl of Leeds and a visit to a beer festival (which incidentally gave me BABOTW)
Orkney Raven Ale
Ossett Blonde
Kirkstall Three Swords
Ilkley Pale
Thornbridge Wild Swan
Ridgeside Snake Charmer
Kirkstall Three Swords
Tetley Bitter
Hop Studio Zest
Hop Studio Blonde
Great Heck Mosaic
Lytham Amber
Crouch Vale Essex Boys
Derby Triple Hop
Derby Business As Usual
Mallinsons Castle Hill
Tiny Rebel Fubar
Ilkley Gold
the beer festival beers suffered from being too warm and some of the others weren't up to much either but BOTW is Ridgeside Snake Charmer drunk in the superb The Grove Inn
Quality ale all the way up the Trent and Mersey and particularly on the Caldon Canal.
Marstons -- Pedigree
Everards -- Tiger
Marble -- Pint
Cheshire Brewhouse -- Engine Vein
Belhaven -- St Andrews Ale
Norton -- English Eleven
Whim -- Flower Power
Titanic -- Plumb Porter
Titanic -- Iceberg
Titanic -- White Star
Moles -- Elmo's Fire
Sharpe's -- Doom Bar
Difficult choice but BOTW by a whisker was Titanic White Star in The Roebuck ,Leek.Smooth,well balanced best bitter which slipped down way too easily.
Quiet week ahead,no bad thing.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Light on beers this week -
Darkstar - Hophead
Brains - British summer
Wild Weather - Sundowner
Triple fff Moondance
Portobello Pale
and a fair amount of Westons Traditional Scrumpy, which doesn't count but was nevertheless very effective.
BOTW is Wild Weather - Sundowner two in a row for Wild Weather.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A good week for me after a slow start.
Otter Bitter 3.6%
Samuel Smith Old Brewery Bitter 3.8%
Westerham Spirit Of Kent 4.2%
Long Man Sussex Pride 4.5%
Moorhouse's Blond Witch 4.5%
Siren Undercurrent 4.5%
Dark Star Genesis 4.7%
East London Brewing Co Jamboree 4.8%
Wantsum Black Pig 4.8%
Brewster Calamity Jane 5.0%
Shepherd Neame Bishop's Finger 5.0%
WJ King Mallard 5.0%
Coach House Blueberry Classic Bitter 5.0%
Windsor And Eton Conqueror Black IPA 5.0%
Exmoor Stag 5.2%
Hopcraft Statement Of Intent 5.2%
Hopcraft Spanish Main 5.5%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Brodie's Hackney Red 6.1%
Brodie's Hackney Red (Keykeg) 6.1%
Brodie's Kiwi IPA (Keykeg) 7.2%
The contenders are Genesis, Conqueror, Black Pig and the two Hopcraft beers.
I have to go for the Hopcraft Statement Of Intent, stronger very hoppy Golden Ales are something of a cliche, but this one really was excellent at £2.60 in the Leyton King William.
I had an unusual opportunity to directly compare the cask and keg versions of Brodie's Hackney Red. I have to say that despite carbonation I preferred the keg. This was on a warm evening, on a freezing winter's day it may well be the opposite, but I have to say that Hackney Red and Dalston Black are well suited to keykeg dispense.
BOTW Hopcraft Statement Of Intent
Rather than drink new beers this week I stuck to previously drank beers.Mostly average but
Sambrookes -Wandle was very good (I slagged them off a few weeks ago) but
Fullers -Sticky Wicket was hoppy in an English sort of way and was beer of the week.
Sonnet 43 Brewhouse - IPA
This week's entire beer consumption was a solitary half of Ilkley Mary Jane. Unfortunately, it was so tired and flabby, I'm not even going to nominate it.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
This week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Marstons Old Empire IPA
Acorn Madness
BOTW Acorn Madness. Pale, bitter and refreshing with plenty of flavour at 4.5%. And bought at the 'Spoons in Brum airport with a voucher. Joy.