A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent
Hop Fuzz:Martello-3.8%abv-Fruity,toffeish,amber.Dry finish.
Dark Star:Hophead- 3.8%-avb-Top notch.
Kent:Pale-4%abv-Barley straw,rasping,raspberries.Yum. My BOTW,taken at The Handsome Sam.
"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.
I can now claim to have had an excellent pint of Jaipur in a suburb of Dublin :-
Purity Bunny Hop 3.5%
Big Bog Harp Inn (rebadged Blonde Bach) 3.9%
Lees Bitter (keg) 4.0%
Conwy Welsh Pride 4.0%
Caledonian Edinburgh Castle (keg) 4.1%
Salopian Symphony 4.1%
Heritage St Modwen Golden Ale 4.2%
Sharp's Atlantic 4.2%
Brain's SA 4.2%
Trouble Brewing Dark Arts Porter (keg) 4.4%
Adnam's Ghost Ship 4.5%
Marston's Shipyard IPA (keg) 4.5%
Marston's Pedigree (bottle) 4.5%
Blue Monkey Blubarb & Custard 4.8%
Hopcraft See with Your Eyes Touch With Your Hands 5.0%
Stonehenge Danish Dynamite 5.0%
Gloucester Dockside Dark 5.1%
Greene King Abbot 5.0%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Wild Horse Palamino Pale (keg) 5.4%
Marston's Old Empire 5.7%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Big Bog Quagmire 6.0%
Lees Moonraker 6.5%
The Jaipur is a contender but I'm going left field for the winner with the Blue Monkey Blubarb & Custard. I could well understand and wouldn't be at all offended if someone decided this was a BABOTW, I like rhubarb and for me this rhubarb and vanilla golden ale worked really well. It was an expensive £4.30 in the excellent Wellington in Brum.
BOTW Blue Monkey Blubarb & Custard
No pubs visited
So BOTW is awarded to several bottles of BrewDog Elvis Juice consumed quietly at home while saving myself for the onslaught in Newcastle Under Lyme.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Just a short list this week:
4T's - Old School Mild
Mallinsons - Bramling Cascade
Mallinsons - Wappy Nick
Outstanding - Blonde
Bristol Beer Factory - Ellehammer
Mallinsons - Stoutella
Arbor - The Ego has landed
Exmoor - Stag
Salamander - Pirates Stout
Theakstons - Best Bitter
Mostly good although I got suckered by the Arbor as there was no mention of the dreaded Mosaic on the clip, anyway washed my mouth out with BOTW Mallinsons - Bramling Cascade an interesting hop mix that works well.
Very quiet week with Hop Back Summer Lightening taking this week's crown.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Beavertown -heavy water 10.4 is still a sensational beer.
Whitstable - East India Pale in The Duke (of York)
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
A mixed week in the beer stakes,
Latham Summer Ale
Georges Checkpoint Charlie
Adnams Cucumelon Sour
Flowerpots Perridge pale
Hop Back GFB
Milk Street Same Again
H&W Tanglefoot
H&W Old Harrys Sail Pale
H&W Fursty Ferret
Wadworth Horizon
Greene King IPA
Hambledon Nightmare Porter
St Austel Proper Job
Brewhouse & Kitchen Telemark Extra American IPA
BOTW Adnams Cucumelon Sour, Its not sour, but its a love or hate beer, I'm obviously in the former camp.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields