A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Extremley quite week by variety,
Darkstar Hophead (a fair amount of)
Long Man Long Blonde*(lots of)
Little Beer Little Smooth*
Plus a bottle
Goose Island IPA
and a tin
Crafty Dan 13 Guns*
BOTW is Long Man Long Blonde very sessionable.
Expecting a much expanded list next week a week off work with trips planned up that London Tueseday, another on Thursday to the GBBF and Bevois Valley and beyond next Saturday.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadd's)-No 7.3.8%abv.Excellent session beer:lightly herbaceous,grassy hops.Quite unusual to see any Gadd's in my part of Kent.My BOTW
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
Navigating in London,trip to West Berkshire.
Fullers -- ESB *
Whitstable Bay -- Pale Ale(keg)
Salopian -- Hop Twister *
Skinners -- Betty Stogs
West Berkshire -- Mr Chubb's Lunchtime Bitter
Windsor & Eton -- Guardsman
BOTW goes to Salopian Hop Twister in The Coal Hole,refreshing on a sweaty evening.
Next week looks ropey until pre match beers in The George.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
andrew usher - the lonely hop keg
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Whim Ales Marynka. A light and hoppy session ale at only 3.3%. Skated through the three pint test when seen at the Blake Hotel last night.
Come On You Hatters!
Quite a good week by recent standards including two new (to me) breweries.
Banks's - Bitter
Theakstons - Old Peculier
Taylors - Landlord
Durham - Lightning Rod
York - Ghost
Roosters - Buckeye
Issac Poad - No 84 IPA
York Brew - Kiwi Ale
Rat - Bearded Rat
Gt Heck - Yakima IPA
York - Terrier
Siren - Proteus
Tiny Rebel - Stay Puft
Roosters - Londinium
difficult but it's Tiny Rebel Stay Puft again.
A brief five-pubber in Oxford centre (Broad St / St Giles) on Weds night followed by a wedding Saturday night:
Shotover Prospect (3.7%)
Charles Wells Young's Bitter (3.7%)
Vale High Flyer (4.0%)
Adnams Mosaic (4.1%)*
Nethergate Stour Valley Gold (4.2%)
Gadds' Dogbolter (5.6%) (bottle) BOTW
The Mosaic was the highlight of the Oxford session, enjoyed at the wait-for-15-minutes-whilst-tourists-dither-over-ordering-food Eagle & Child, but BOTW was the Gadds', sampled at a wedding in a hotel down at St Margaret-at-Cliffe near Dover. A classic porter with a roasty aroma, and a slightly sweet, yet bitter chocolate finish. Superb.
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Only keg beers were in the running this week.All excellent
brew by numbers-55/02 double ipa 8.0
north -transmission 6.9
wiper and true -kaleidoscope 4.0
wiper and true-quintet ipa 6.6
sierra Nevada -11.5 plato
and BOTW
Fierce -peanut riot porter 6.5 at the Rake bar
Peerless - Rakau 4.5% in Wetherspoon Express
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan