Beer of the Week (w/e 5th June 2016)

[ROBCamra]

gillhalfpint: Blue Anchor Spingo Special
Mobyduck: Wiper and True Milkshake
Aqualung: Blue Monkey Fat Ape
Wittenden: Long Man Golden Tipple
hondo: Swannay Orkney Best
aleandhearty: Kirkstall Black Band Porter
Thuck Phat: Bad Co Love Over Gold
london calling: Thornbridge Jaipur
Real Ale Ray: Target Hop Rankin'
Komakino: Upham Punter
Bucking Fastard: Northern Monk True North
ROBCamra: Belleville Battersea Brown

[gillhalfpint]

Found a perfect St Austell HSD, but my favourite this week has to be Blue Anchor Spingo Special.

[Mobyduck]

A half decent week,
Darkstar Hophead
Adnams Mosaic*
Oakham JHB*
Oakham Citra
Cloudwater US Light Amarillo
Mallisons Simcoe*
Siren Proteus Volume 2 V2
Siren Peligrosos (keg)*
Hopcraft/Bragdy Twt Lol Men Of Steel*
Wiper and True Milkshake*
Uprising Treason*
Wild Weather Squid Ink Black IPA (it wasn't black!? )
Fullers London Pride
Arkles Moonlight
Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter
Fullers Olivers Island
West Berks Good Old Boy
Loddon Summer Snowflake
Longdog Lamplight Porter*
Butts Traditional
Merrie City Crystal Gold*
Sharps Doom Bar

Very much a mixed bag with most of the action in Berkshire, Reading and Newbury, the Best of the bunch though was Wiper and True Milkshake
a very palatable milk stout.

[Aqualung]

A hectic week for me with a visit to the local brewery fest followed by a stay in the North East and a day out yesterday in Chesterfield :-

Hadrian Tyneside Blonde 3.6%
Cumberland Corby Amber 4.0%
Allendale Pennine Pale 4.0%*
Hammerton N1 4.1%*
Sonnet 43 Raven Porter 4.3%
Great Newsome Holderness Dark 4.3%*
Grafton Lady Julia 4.3%
Sandway Hop Sepia 4.3%
Sonnet 43 Aurora 4.4%
High House Farm Nettle Ale 4.5%
Allendale Cardinal 4.6%
Oakham Bishop's Farewell 4.6%*
Wild Card Ace Of Spades Porter 4.7%
North Yorkshire White Lady 4.7%
Shiny Abyss Mild 4.7%
Allendale GFPA 4.7%*
Five Points Railway Porter 4.8%*
Mordue Radgie Gadgie 4.8%
Allendale Adder Lager 5.0%*
Rudgate Volsun 5.0%*
Haqmbleton's Nightmare Porter 5.0%*
Wild Card Queen Of Diamonds IPA (keg) 5.0%*
Bradfield Farmers Pale 5.0%
Lincoln Green Quarterstaff 5.0%
Wild Card Blonde Cascade + 5.1%*
Redemption Fellowship Porter 5.1%
Mad Fox Defender 5.2%
Blue Monkey Bonobo Black IPA 5.3%*
Sonnet 43 Impressment APA 5.4%*
Bad Seed Cascade 5.4%
Hop & Cleaver Bosch 5.5%*
Allendale Wolf 5.5%
Blue Monkey Infinity +1 5.6%*
Big Lamp Keelman Brown 5.7%*
Wishbone Black Porter 6.0%*
Marble Howgate & Kemp 6.4%
Broughton Old Jock 6.7%
Blue Monkey Fat Ape 7.0%*
Anarchy Sublime Chaos 7.0%*

There's so much to choose from it's scrambling my mind as much as consuming them all. I would like to give an honourable mention to the Allendale Pennine Pale which was a superb new worl hopped low abv beer. The award however goes to Blue Monkey Fat Ape as tried for £3.80 in the Chesterfield Arms in er, Chesterfield. I suspect it may be a stronger version of their two infinity beers but those two make for a very high starting point.

BOTW Blue Monkey Fat Ape

[Wittenden]

West Sussex, East Kent:

Dark Star-Hophead 3.85abv-Jaded.
Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv-Unimpeacheable. Both these two at the eyewatering, if not criminal, price of £4.40/pint at The Horse Guards Inn
Brew Buddies BB01 Best Bitter Challenger Bobeck-4.3%abv-Workmanlike mid brown saloon bar stalwart.Toffee with a long hoppy finish.Unfined but not murksome. From a new -to- me Kent micro.Taken at The Freed Man, Walmer.
Burning Sky-Plateau-3.5% abv-Wonderfully flavoursome for the ABV.Assertive hops: a classic.
Long Man-Golden Tipple-4.7%abv- Nice change to see the malting barley referenced. Tropical and Christmas fruits. Bitter sweet.These two taken at The Berry
A very close thing between the Long Man and the Burning Sky,but my BOTW is Golden Tipple,partly because it is a pale(ish) beer at a abv range that I'm not usually happy with for lighter beers.

[Aqualung]

Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv-Unimpeacheable. Both these two at the eyewatering, if not criminal, price of £4.40/pint at The Horse Guards Inn

Definitely criminal! I remember that one as a King & Barnes house. I bet it's not that expensive in their own pub the Swan at nearby Midhurst which if I remember rightly is a very Olde Worlde sort of place.

[london calling]

A half decent week,
Darkstar Hophead
Adnams Mosaic*
Oakham JHB*
Oakham Citra
Cloudwater US Light Amarillo
Mallisons Simcoe*
Siren Proteus Volume 2 V2
Siren Peligrosos (keg)*
Hopcraft/Bragdy Twt Lol Men Of Steel*
Wiper and True Milkshake*
Uprising Treason*
Wild Weather Squid Ink Black IPA (it wasn't black!? )
Fullers London Pride
Arkles Moonlight
Windsor & Eton Knight of the Garter
Fullers Olivers Island
West Berks Good Old Boy
Loddon Summer Snowflake
Longdog Lamplight Porter*
Butts Traditional
Merrie City Crystal Gold*
Sharps Doom Bar

Very much a mixed bag with most of the action in Berkshire, Reading and Newbury, the Best of the bunch though was Wiper and True Milkshake
a very palatable milk stout.

The squid Ink black ipa is described by the brewery as the colour of the briny deep. Cant argue with that description.

[Mobyduck]

The squid Ink black ipa is described by the brewery as the colour of the briny deep. Cant argue with that description.

Murky Gold?

[Real Ale Ray]

Target Brewery - Hop Rankin'