Beer of the Week (w/e 11th May 2014)

[ROBCamra]

Real Ale Ray: Brimstage Rhode Island Red Bitter
Aqualung: Celt Experience Bleddyn 1075
Mobyduck: Tillingbourne Evolution No.4
Wittenden: Hop Fuzz Old American Pale
hondo: Thornbridge Halcyon IPA
Bucking Fastard: Vale Gravitas
Thuck Phat: Titanic Iceberg
london calling: Wadsworth Ipanema
ROBCamra: Hopstar Dark Knight

[Real Ale Ray]

Brimstage - Rhode Island Red Bitter

[Aqualung]

Not a bad week :-

Banks's Mild 3.5%
Brakspear Bitter 3.4%
Coach House Gunpowder Mild 3.8%
Brentwood Hot XXX Buns 3.8%
East London Brewing Company Pale 4.0%
Banks's Cereal Thriller 4.0%
Brakspear Oxford Gold 4.0%
Mighty Oak Flying Inn 4.1%
Maxim Swedish Blond 4.2%
Theakston's Paradise 4.2%
Hopcraft Naughty Boy 4.2%
Shalford Stoneley Bitter 4.2%
Brewster Hop A Doodle Doo 4.3%
Brewster Decadence 4.4%
Clouded Minds Hazelnutter 4.5%
Elephant School Peasants' Revolt 4.6%
Hopcraft Reign Of Terror 4.9%
Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA 5.0%
Wadworth's / Fat Head's Rocket Man 5.2%
Brentwood Lumberjack 5.2%
Banks's Saint Archer Pale Ale 5.5%
Fuller's ESB 5.5%
Celt Experience Bleddyn 1075 5.6%

The easy winner is the Celt Experience Bleddyn 1075 at £2.35 in the E4 King's Ford. It was another pale beer with tons of New World hops. I wonder if anyone in Wales actually drinks stuff like this and the Hopcraft beers. In my experience they don't drink anything more than around 4.3% but lots and lots and lots of it.
At the other end of the list the Banks's Mild was a creditable second and was as good as I've ever tasted it.


BOTW Celt Experience Bleddyn 1075

[Mobyduck]

Some decent beer this week
Darkstar - Hophead 3.8%
Wild Weather - Sundowner 3.4%
Cheddar - Gorge Best 4.0%
Cheddar - Potholer 4.3%
Timothy Taylor - Landlord 4.3%
Vale - Synchronicity 4.0%
Redemption - Trinity 3.0%
Liverpool Organic - Styrian 4.2%
Tillingbourne - Evolution No.4 4.3%
Red Squirrel - Jack Black 4.8%
Gyle 59 - IPA 5.5%
Art Brew - Earth Roots Resin 6.0%
Raw - Dark Peak Stout 4.5%
Triple fff - Ramble Tamble 5.%

This weeks winner isTillingbourne - Evolution No.4 a very refreshing hop bomb of a beer, just beating off the challenge of Art Brews Strange, but interesting and not unpleasant Earth Root Resin.

[Wittenden]

First time in a pub for around a month.
Hop Fuzz-Old American Pale. 4.2%abv. Mid brown,US Summit hops.Citrus, you know the score. Bit more body than some. Good.Taken in this pub:The Plough Inn

[hondo]

Thornbridge - Halcyon Ipa keg

[oldboots]

Late on parade as the choice was very difficult

Five Towns - St Georges Ale
York - Liubelskie
Roosters - Londinium
Roosters - The Italian Job
Rudgate - Brew #4
Ossett - Majestic Mild
Acorn - Old Moor Porter
Clarke's - Classic Blonde
Riverhead - Lavender Blonde
Wolf - Woild Moild
Ossett - Big Red
Treboom - Yorkshire Sparkle
Roosters - Nectar
Marble - Dobber
Roosters - Yankee
Wharfebank - Printers Ink
Firestorm (Wharfebank) - Red Angel
Tapped - Stogie Stout
Hardknott - Azimuth
Taylors - Golden Best
White Horse - Village Idiot
Wentworth - Oyster Stout
Howarth Steam Brewery - Rascal
Howarth Steam Brewery - 1820 ESB
Hop Studio - XP
Slightly Foxed - Foxglove
Rat - Black Rat
Pheonix - Black Shadow


I thought it would be one of the dark beers as they were all excellent but having visited the Boltmakers on Saturday it has to be Taylors Golden Best

[ROBCamra]

Hopstar win it for the second week in a row.

This time it's Hopstar Dark Knight. It claims it's a mild for Mild In May Month, but it's 4% and tastes more like a porter to me.

No matter. It's a lovely creamy dark beer that I had a couple of pints to finish off with in The Baum (where else).