A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Larkins-Porter 5.2%abv: First sighting of this iconic beer this season.Muscular and dry.
Dark Star/Fuller Smith and Turner-Hophead 3.8%abv.Hmm,seems a bit 'Northern', not as open as I remember it.
Tonbridge-Coppernob 3.8%abv.First pint undrinkable:next,from a new cask,lively and earthy.
Old Dairy-Flaming Embers 4%abv. Roasty amber ale-not my favourite style.
Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv. Unimpeachable.
My BOTW-Larkins Porter.
"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.
All beers tried this week were in Wales :-
Banks's Mild (keg) 3.5%
Black Sheep Best Bitter 3.8%
Big Bog Hinky Punk 4.1%
Alechemy Ritual 4.1%
Big Hand Palewulf 4.2%
Nant Chwaden Aur 4.2%
Conwy Black Witch 4.3%
Hafod Powerhaus 4.4%
Acorn XV Stout 4.5%
Blackjack Short & Stout 4.5%
Neptune Big Sur West Coast IPA 4.5%
Salopian Lemon Dream 4.5%
Purple Moose Chocolate Moose 4.5%
Titanic Plum Porter 4.9%
Alechemy Secret Citra 5.0%
Great Orme Chocoholic 5.0%
Heavy Industry Pigeon Toed Orange Peel 5.2%
Hafod Big Red 5.5%
Conwy Telford Porter 5.6%
The fairly easy winner is the Alechemy Secret Citra which is brewed in er, Scotland. It was something of a hop bomb but went down a treat for £3.80 in Llandudno's Tapps micropub.
BOTW Alechemy Secret Citra
Hants, Herts, Surrey and Berks.
Dark Star Hophead
Harveys Sussex Bitter
Oakham Citra
Oakham JHB
Tring Side Pocket For Toad
Tring Ridgeway
Black Sheep Chocolate Orange Stout
Red Squirrel Resolution
Three Blind Mice Lonely Snake Citra And Simcoe Edition
Wilde Childe Risk Avoidance
Siren Medjuicia
Gibberish Nomel Pord
Ramsbury Milk Stout
Wantsum Yellow Tail
I cant see beyond Oakham Citra ,spot on in The Mermaid.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Harlow and Croydon,a modest week.
Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Brewing Victory
Mc Mullens -- AK
and by default BOTW Burning Sky Aurora ,good but not on peak form in The George.Still went through the 3PT
Next week quiet but two new openings to check out.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson