A very good week:
Rudgate Brew No 5
Empire Commerciale*
Rat James Herbert*
Rat The Rat of Khan*
Hopcraft/Northern Monk Crafty Monk*
Salopian Golden Thread*
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Titanic Iceberg*
Blue Monkey Ape Ale*

As the number of asteriks suggest, in any other week these beers would have taken the title and a special mention must go to the Rat beers tried at the brewery tap in Huddersfield as all were excellent.
BOTW was Hopcraft/Northern Monk - Crafty Monk, a 5.7% red IPA. I can't top the brewers description so here it is:
"We brewed a strong-ish (it should be around 5.7% or so) red IPA - so watch Roger Protz go apoplectic about this further nonsensical beer style - with what must be the biggest hop charge we’ve used thus far (and probably the most expensive too...!) with over 2kg per barrel of lovely Summit, Citra, Galaxy, Simcoe, Centennial and Chinook all drowned in the name of lupuliciousness."
Not for some but for me it was fabulous.