Beer of the Week (w/e 16th November 2014)

[ROBCamra]

Mobyduck: Arbor E Bomb ll
Bucking Fastard: Red Ink 100
Thuck Phat: Abbeydale Temptation
Real Ale Ray: XT 2
Aqualung: Otley O2 Croeso
hondo: Oakham Great Gustav
oldboots: Northern Monk True North
london calling: Wiper and True Milk Shake Stout
ROBCamra: Abbeydale Galaxy 55

[Mobyduck]

Darkstar - American Pale Ale 4.7%
Darkstar - Hophead 3.8%
Darkstar - Skinners Pale Ale 3.7%
Darkstar - Sunburst 4.8%
Weltons - Old Cocky 4.3%
Moor - Revival 3.8%
Salopian - Darwins Origin 4.3%
Mallisons - US Mild 3.5%
Durham - Black Velvet 4.0%
Arbor - Triple Hop 4.0%
Arbor - E Bomb ll 4.7%
Bristol Beer Factory - Milk Stout 4.6%
Red Willow - Wreckless 4.8%
XT - 2 4.2%
Twisted - Rider 4.0%
Hopback - Golden Best 3.5%

Some good beers taken in Bristol last Friday,BOTW Arbor E Bomb ll a pure hop bomb ,not everybodys cup of tea but right up my street.

[Bucking Fastard]

Lots of consumption but the week impacted by dodgy stomach affecting tastebuds so BOTW more an impression than anything else.


Dark Star -- Skinners Pale Ale
Sharp's -- Special
Sharp's -- Atlantic IPA
Long Man -- Golden Tipple *
Otley -- Amarillo
Dark Star -- American Pale Ale *
Firebrand -- Graffiti IPA
Mallinson's -- US MILD*
Red Ink -- 100 *
Buxton -- Rednik Stout
Arbor -- Blue Sky Drinking
Bristol Beer Factory -- Nova


BOTW goes to Red Ink 100,a decent porter from a new micro recently set up in Wellington,Somerset. Sampled on the excellent PuG crawl in the Famous Royal Navy Volunteer.

[Thuck Phat]

BOTW Abbeydale Temptation.
The only cask ale tried and a boring brown beer but a very fine one. If all BBBs were like this then they may not have the reputation they do.

[Real Ale Ray]

XT - 2

[Aqualung]

A good week for me with a visit to a local beer festival and a day out in Sheffield, somehwere I had never been to before.

Great Orme Cambria 3.8%
Elgood's Cambridge Bitter 3.8%
Banks's Black Diamond 4.0%
Sky's Edge Riverside Pale 4.2%
Acorn Ginger Nuts 4.2%
New Plassey Midnight Mild 4.2%
Otley O2 Croeso 4.2%
Little Ale Cart Brancepeth Castle 4.3%
Tiny Rebel FUBAR 4.4%
Isca No. 133 Pale Ale 4.5%
Great Orme Celtica 4.5%
North Riding Fat Lads Mild 4.5%
Little Ale Cart Coal Porter 4.6%
Everard's Low Blow Session IPA 4.7%
Ringwood XXXX Porter 4.7%
Adnam's Wild Hop 4.8%
Kingstone 1503 Tudor Ale 4.8%
Tiny Rebel The Full Nelson 4.8%
Sky's Edge Rum Cask Stout 4.8%
Tiny Rebel Dirty Stop Out 5.0%
Acorn Ella IPA 5.0%
Brown Ales Matrix Stout 5.0%
Mordue Americana 5.0%
Abbeydale Absolution 5.3%
Backyard Hellbound 5.4%


There are so many really good beers in this lot that makes this is quite a task but it comes down between Otley O2 Croeso and the new Spoons American beer from Everards. The Otley O2 Croeso edges it although why a brewery in Pontypridd should be named after a Yorkshire town is anyone's guess. It was in superb nick for £3.20 at the local borough Social Club's Wales and Borders beer festival.

BOTW Otley O2 Croeso

[oldboots]

Oakham - Bishops Farewell
Kirkstall - Shambles
Acorn - Barnsley Bitter
Rudgate - Ruby Mild
Purity - Rivet
Acorn - Old Moor Porter
Taylors - Golden Best
Briscoes - DNA
Baildon - Blonde
Bingley - Jamestown IPA
Bridestones - New Begining
Bridgehouse - Aired Ale
Hebden Bridge - Girl Crush
Lower Quarry - Bradley Black
New Inn, Roberttown - Bombay Bob
Northern Monk - True North
Sunbeam - Shepherd's Delight
Leeds - Pale
Thornbridge - Murmansk
Banks's - Tetleys Bitter
Ilkley - Mary Jane
Goose Eye - Golden Goose

A great week for beer helped by the excellent Otley Beer Festival, it would be easier to say which two or three were not good this week. Very narrowly BOTW is Northern Monk - True North

[london calling]

Lots of good beers in Bristol
these were good
brewsters -brewsters dozen
twisted -conscript
mallinsons -u s mild
red ink -100
partizan -atomium
twisted oak - slippery slope
botw is wiper and true -milk shake stout

[ROBCamra]

Abbeydale Galaxy 55 tried in The Baum several times last week.

It's exactly what it says it is. A 5.5% light beer made wth Galaxy hops.