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    Default Beer of the Week (w/e 20th April 2014)

    Mobyduck: Dark Star Six Hop
    Real Ale Ray: Fool Hardy Ales Risky Blond
    london calling: Highland Muckle IPA
    aleandhearty: Fernandes American Pale
    Bucking Fastard: Blackjack Black IPA
    oldboots: Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby
    Thuck Phat: Hart Porter
    Aqualung: Brodie's Hackney Red Rosemary IPA
    hondo: Harviestoun Schiehallion
    ROBCamra: Mallinsons Indulgence
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    Well as stated last week its been all work and little play and as such have sampled only two different beers this week, although both have passed the three pint test several times over.
    Darkstar Hophead, has been on form this week, good news as I have found the quality to be a little erratic of late.
    Dark star Six Hop this months special and an outstanding beer, easily punching its weight at 6.5%, you feel you could drink it all day, but you cant.
    BOTW and well in the running for a top 5 place for 2014, although at this early stage the competition is intense. Beer seems to be getting better and better.
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    Fool Hardy Ales - Risky Blond sampled in this pub The Hope Inn

    A great addition to Stockport - every ale I tried was excellent.

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    With a session at Egham and a trip to London this week I had plenty to choose from.Egham beers were very good which is not always the case with so many new brewers
    red cat -bitter
    round tower -stout
    hoptimist -glass half full
    weltons -blackcurrent mild (again)
    titanic -cherry dark
    c +fredricks -special bitter
    but the outstanding beer was
    Highland -muckle ipa but at £3.50 a half on keg at the Well and Bucket I wouldn't have bought it if I had known the price beforehand

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    Reasonable variety, this week, but the majority were rather ho-hum, for one reason or another.

    Banks - Sunbeam.
    Marstons - Old Empire.
    Salamander - Make my Day.*
    Elland - Eden.
    Titanic - Cappuccino.
    Great Newsome - Ploughmans Pride.
    Bridestones - Sandstone.
    Westgates - Ale Fresco.
    Moorhouses - Pride of Pendle.
    Bob's - White Lion.
    Fernandes - American Pale.*
    Fernandes - Cascade Torrent.
    Titanic - Iron Curtain.
    Nelson - Friggin in the Riggin.
    Fernandes - Straw Dog.
    Ilkley - Black.*

    Pick of the bunch was the American Pale, a very sessionable APA.
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    A bit of boating,plus a few pints.

    North Riding -- Motueka
    Blackjack -- Black IPA
    Marston's -- Pedigree (3PT)
    Sharp's -- Doom Bar
    London Fields -- Hackney Hopster


    BOTW goes to Blackjack Black IPA,an outstanding pint in The Craven Arms,Brum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    ...top 5 place for 2014, although at this early stage the competition is intense. Beer seems to be getting better and better.
    Speak for yourself! I'm finding it very hard to compile a list for BOTY: only one beer has scored 5 so far, and perhaps out of desperation, though in truth I did enjoy it.(Black Cat Original.)
    "At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.

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    Another quiet week with just Cotswold Lion Golden Fleece IPA and Oakham Bishops Farewell on cask.
    A couple of decent bottles though and it's a bottle conditioned beer that takes the prize.
    BOTW Hart Porter. Packs an almighty flavour punch at 6.4% and is the best porter I've had.

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    A massive week for me.

    Brodie's Baby Mild Vanilla and Coconut 2.7%
    Brodie's Citra 3.1%
    Pitfield Wenlock Norman's Mild 3.4%
    Brodie's Shoreditch Sunshine 3.9%
    Brodie's London Fields 4.0%
    Shamblemoose Wisconsin Pale 4.0%
    Elephant School Aussie Blond 4.0%
    Lancaster Raspberry Rose 4.2%
    Caledonian African Pale Ale 4.2%
    Cameron's Galactico 4.2%
    Wood's Beauty 4.2%
    Brodie's Elderflower Lager 4.5%
    Elgood's Plum Porter 4.5%
    Wharfebank Black Geld 4.5%
    Adnam's English Red Ale 4.5%
    Daleside Sea Fever 4.5%
    Wadworth's Crimson Dawn 4.5%
    Barnet Blazing Saddles 4.5%
    Wild Card Jack Of Clubs 4.5%
    Wolf Silver Fox 4.6%
    Upstart Black Lager 4.8%
    East London Brewing Company Wheat Porter 4.8%
    Wychwood Siren's Song Session IPA 5.0%
    Everards Regimental IPA 5.0%
    Caledonian Port Of Leith IPA 5.0%
    Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA 5.0%
    Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
    Purity Saddle Black 5.1%
    Hopcraft Mosaic Plus 5.4%
    Brodie's Jamaican Stout Chilli 5.4%
    Brodie's Jamaican Stout Coffee 5.4%
    Brodie's Jamaican Stout Rum and Raisin 5.4%
    Brodie's Dry Hoppin' Mad Bramling Cross 5.5%
    Brodie's Dry Hoppin' Mad Sorachi Ace 5.5%
    Brodie's Dry Hoppin' Mad Colombus 5.5%
    Brodie's Dry Hoppin' Mad Motueka 5.5%
    Hopcraft Long Nines Stout (whisky aged) 6.0%
    Everards Solange 6.0%
    Brodie's Hackney Red Rosemary IPA 6.1%
    Brodie's Hackney Red Cacao Chilli IPA 6.1%
    Brodie's Kentish Town Brown IPA 6.2%
    Brodie's Kentish Town Nut Brown IPA 6.2%
    Brodie's Kentish Town Maple Brown IPA 6.2%
    Wadworth's Klosterbock 6.5%
    Greene King Double Hop Monster IPA 7.2%
    Brodie's Elizabethan Ale (Cask) 22.0%
    Brodie's Elizabethan Ale (Keykeg) 22.0%


    The winner is the rosemary infused Hackney Red at £2.50 in the Leyton King William IV. Not one for the purist or for that matter probably just about anyone else but I really liked it!

    BOTW Brodie's Hackney Red Rosemary IPA

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