A fairly quiet week, due to family commitments over the holiday period.
Shiny - Rat Trap.
Welbeck Abbey - Henrietta.
Ilkley - Lotus IPA.
Nine Standards - Silver Standard.
Ossett - Galaxy.
Fernandes - Columbus.
Rudgate - York Chocolate Stout.
Normally, I'd expect the Lotus to romp home, but it was on curiously subdued form when I tried it on NYE. Similarly, previous BOTW Rat Trap didn't seem quite at its best either, so Galaxy gets the nod.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Windsor & Eton 'Parklife' is a good hoppy pale ale. This is the brewer's contribution to the increasingly common low ABV, but full of hops style (it's only 3.2%) and its up to their usual high standard.
Keeping breweries in business for more than 40() years
Abbeydale White Christmas tried in The Museum in Sheffield.
An often overlooked beer house in the city centre.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas