A better week,
Oakham Scarlet Macaw
Oakham Citra
Hop Back GFB
Purity Mad Goose
Phipps IPA
Phipps Golden Mild
Silverstone Pit Stop
Hydes Lowery
Nobbys Chocolate Porter
Potbelly Crazy Daze
Framework Double Chocolate Stout
Thornbridge Wild Swan
Windswept Hurricane
Little Critters Little Hopper
Roosters/Thornbridge Counter Culture
Some well conditioned stuff this week, Phipps Golden Mild comes out on top, taken in The Albion Brewery Bar.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Modest week in Harlow,Enslow and Richmond.
Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Brewing Citrus Chaos
Box Steam -- Golden Bolt
Gipsy Hill -- Hepcat (keg)
Prancing Pony -- Pagan Empire Rye IPA (bottle)*
Murray's -- Whale Ale (bottle)
BOTW goes to a bottle of Prancing Pony Pagan Empire Rye IPA,sampled in an Aussie restaurant .It was packed with flavour and slipped down easily at 6.6%,good match with my barramundi.
Next week looks thin apart from the traditional end of season session both before and after the footie.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Not a huge list this week :-
One Mile End Great Tom Mild 3.8%
Nethergate Green & Pleasant Land 4.1%
Tring Abacus 4.1%
XT 18 Gold 4.1%
ELB Peacock EPA 4.2%
Vale Pale Ale 4.2%
Rebellion Amber 4.3%
Brentwood Hope & Glory 4.5%
Hawkshead Brodie's Prime 4.9%
Nethergate Old Growler 5.0%
Elephant School Gold Rush 5.0%
Peerless Mocha Matari 5.0%
Redemption Big Chief 5.5%
The easy winner is an old favourite I'd not seen for a while which is the Big Chief as tried for £3.95 in the E17 Rose and Crown.
BOTW Redemption Big Chief
A solid week, with a handful of decent beers in good condition. However, there were only a couple that caused a flutter of excitement.
Castle Rock - Sherwood Reserve.
Wilde Child - Rite of Passage.*
Ossett - Jive Bunny.
Adnams - Ghost Ship.
Great Heck - Voodoo Mild.
Mallinsons - Castle Hill.
Three Brothers - Red Fruit Porter.
North Riding - Mosaic.*
2 Roses - Auckland.
North Riding Brewpub - Optimism.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Northern Monk - Faith
Ended up staying in Hop Co, Warrington for an extra couple of hours thanks to this keg offering.
This week:
Oakham Hangar 17
Fire Island Flying Fish
Slightly Foxed Prairie Fox*
Abbeydale Moonshine*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
BOTW Slightly Foxed Prairie Fox. A new brewery to me and it came as no surprise that it is based in the West Yorkshire brewing heartland. Prairie Fox is a ludicrously drinkable 5.2% IPA with a dry and bitter finish. Excellent and a strong beer of the year contender.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
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