Beer of the Week (w/e 9th March 2014)
hondo: Caledonian Port O Leith
Real Ale Ray: Brimstage Trapper's Hat
Bucking Fastard: Acorn Winter Pale Ale
Mobyduck: Weird Beards Hit The Lights
Aqualung: Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA
Wittenden: Black Cat Original
london calling: Elephant School Double Hop Beast
Thuck Phat: Julian Church Cained & Unable
aleandhearty: Leeds New Moon
oldboots: Tiny Rebel Loki
ROBCamra: Portobello American Pale Ale
Last edited by ROBCamra; 14-03-2014 at 09:59.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Caledonian - Port O Leith
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Brimstage - Trapper's Hat
A respectable week.
Everards -- Tiger
Marston's -- Old Empire (3PT)
Nobby's -- Winter Ale
Potbelly -- Crazy Daze
Nobby's -- Ralph's Revenge
Dow Bridge -- Praetorian Porter
Oakham -- Bishops Farewell
Newby Wyke -- Kingston Topaz
Hopping Mad -- Brainstorm
Acorn -- Winter Pale Ale
Some very decent pints from Northamptonshire micros but BOTW goes to a pint grabbed in haste at the Hamilton Hall with 10 minutes to spare before departure :
Acorn Winter Pale Ale
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 10-03-2014 at 15:03. Reason: Forgot the Tiger
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Only three different beers tried this week, although some taken in copious amounts.
Darkstar Hophead
Darkstar American Pale Ale
Weird Beard Hit The Lights BOTW
A good IPA, but to be honest not as good as I was expecting ,however as a new beer for me ,good enough for BOTW.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A mixed bag with one very new beer :-
Castle Rock Harvest Pale 3.8%
Portobello Pale 4.0%
O' Hanlon's Dry Stout 4.2%
Barnet Giddy Up 4.3%
Wychwood Piledriver 4.3%
Quantock Will's Neck 4.3%
St Austell Proper Job 4.5%
Wild Card Jack Of Clubs 4.5%
Wobbley Welder 4.8%
Brodie's American Brown 4.8%
Adnams / Sixpoint Make It Rain 5.0%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA 5.0%
Jenning's Snecklifter 5.1%
Tring Colley's Dog 5.2%
Hopcraft Citraic 5.4%
Redemption Big Chief 5.5%
London Fields Shoreditch Triangle 6.0%
The winner is the Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA, it's an orange rather than straw coloured beer with a strong bitterness that is more akin to british bitter beers than the American style ones even though it does include New World hops. The Citraic and Big Chief were very close contenders.
It was tried in the Wild Card Brewery Taproom for £3.30.
BOTW Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA
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