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

    Real Ale Ray: Blue Bee Hyphen
    Bucking Fastard: Blue Bee Hyphen
    Mobyduck: Siren Craft Undercurrent
    Aqualung: Dancing Duck Dark Drake
    hondo: Williams Brothers Joker IPA
    Thuck Phat: Kelham Island Pale Rider
    oldboots: Blue Monkey Infinity
    london calling: Adnams/Alchemist Enraptured
    aleandhearty: Tigertops New Wave IPA
    Wittenden: Yorkshire Dales Buttertubs
    ROBCamra: Black Wolf ROK IPA
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    Blue Bee - Hyphen

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    Two crawls in one week so a decent selection.

    Acorn -- Gorlovka
    Wharfbank -- Tether Blonde
    Blue Bee -- Hyphen
    Stancill -- Barnsley Bitter
    Roosters -- Yankee
    Imperial -- Pithead Bitter
    Sheffield -- Bianco Blonde
    Great Heck -- Black Jesus
    Ashover -- Milk Stout
    Fyne -- Jarl
    Triple fff -- Citra Sonic
    Wickwar -- Bob
    Box Steam -- Tunnel Vision
    Mordue -- Northumbrian Blonde
    Stroud -- Budding
    Oakham -- Inferno
    Diageo -- Guiness
    Buxton -- Moor Top
    Sharp's -- Doom Bar

    I'm with Ray on this ,BOTW goes to an excellent Blue Bee Hyphen in the impressive Dog and Partridge on Will's 60th crawl around Sheffield.I will keep an eye out for this brewery in future if they are capable of brewing such a fine pint.
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    A few interesting beers this week, most courtesy of my local beer festival.

    Darkstar - Hophead 3.8%
    Darkstar - American Pale Ale 4.7%
    Langham - Hip Hop 4.0%
    Siren Craft - Undercurrent4.5%
    Alfreds - Winchester Pale 4.5%
    Brightwater - Daisy Gold 4.0
    Sherfield Village - Pilgrim 4.3%
    Flowerpots - Stormchaser 4.5%
    Itchen Valley - Belgarum 3.9%
    Tillingbourne - Evolution No-4 4.5%
    Downton - Apple Blossom 4.3%
    Longdog - Kismet 4.5%
    Hoptimist - Glass Half Full 4.0%
    West Berks -Bruce's Original Dogbolter 6.0%

    The best beer by far though comes from my favourite brewery from the last year, BOTW Siren Craft Brew - Undercurrent.
    " Pale Ale with spicy,grassy aromas and a taste of grapefruit and Apricot. Undercurrent is part pale ,part oats and part caramel barley. Her swirls of bold, bready and nutty malt whirl into a concoction of spicy, citrus, floral hops. Mystery lurks in those cascade and palisade hops. Her silky , creamy body will pull you under".

    I don't know about all that tosh but it was bloody good.
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    A trip to Derby yesterday provided some excellent pints, nearly all of which were new to me :-

    Leatherbritches Lemongrass & Ginger 3.8%
    Dancing Duck Ay Up / Ey Up 3.9%
    Dancing Duck Waitangi 4.0%
    Brunswick Railway Porter 4.3%
    Falstaff Nemesis 4.3%
    Funfair Waltzer 4.5%
    Dancing Duck Dark Drake 4.5%
    Burton Bridge Hooray Henley 4.5%
    Leeds Midnight Bell 4.8%
    Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
    Everard's Original 5.2%
    Derby Brewery Indian Ink 5.2%
    Fat Cat Marmalade Cat 5.5%
    Dancing Duck Abduction 5.6%
    Backyard X2 7.4%

    Only two of these didn't appeal too much, the Funfair Waltzer and the Burton Bridge Hooray Henley. The Waltzer was too sweet and with Burton Bridge I'd forgotten a golden rule from a long time ago when their beers were stocked by Spoons, to avoid all their 4.5% one off brews as they were really boring.

    The choice is between two Dancing Duck beers, the Abduction although not called one is an IPA in the new tradition and the Dark Drake which is a lovely full flavoured mid ABV porter, although the GBG calls it an Oatmeal Stout.

    BOTW Dancing Duck Dark Drake
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    Williams Brothers - Joker IPA keg
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    A very quiet week with just Oakham Bishops Farewell and BOTW Kelham Island Pale Rider sampled. Quality not quantity and I'd forgotten quite how good the Pale Rider is when in good shape.

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    Another heavy week with a trip to Newark (an unexpectedly good drinking town)

    Atom - Pale Ale
    Rat - White Rat
    Rat - Ratatouille
    Roosters - Italian Job
    Lincoln Green - Misk Hills
    Tring - Wild Boar
    Blue Monkey - BG Sips
    Blue Monkey - Infinity
    Castle Rock - Harvest Pale
    Oakham - Green Devil IPA
    Oakham - Bishop's Farewell
    Oldershaw - Castle Blonde
    Acorn - Old Moor Porter
    ???? - Barnsley Bitter*
    Old Mill - 3 Rivers
    Partners - Blonde
    Rudgate - Viking
    Rudgate - Brew #7
    Taylors - Landlord
    Adnams (The Alchemist Brewery of Vermont) - Enraptured

    BOTW a very close thing but Blue Monkey - Infinity just beats the Green Devil

    * this had an handwritten pump clip with no brewery name, it certainly wasn't the Acorn beer but did taste uncannily like Theakstons Best Bitter.

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    Over Twenty beers to choose from this week. Enjoyed were
    hopcraft - ?
    tickety brew -pale ale
    firebrand -saison
    Brecon -copper beacons
    Camden -hells lager
    fallen -dragonfly
    clouded minds-dolca vita (again)
    weird beard -fade to black
    clouded minds -clout stout
    arbor -dr bomb
    and BOTW was
    arbor -half day ipa

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    Quote Originally Posted by london calling View Post
    Over Twenty beers to choose from this week. Enjoyed were
    hopcraft - ?
    tickety brew -pale ale
    firebrand -saison
    Brecon -copper beacons
    Camden -hells lager
    fallen -dragonfly
    clouded minds-dolca vita (again)
    weird beard -fade to black
    clouded minds -clout stout
    arbor -dr bomb
    and BOTW was
    arbor -half day ipa
    I lost my notebook when out last Monday and had to remember what beers I drank and missed a stoater.Old boots post has just reminded me
    BOTW is now
    Adnams/alchemist-enraptured. Sorry Arbor maybe next time.

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