A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A very quiet week, but all high quality
Fyne Ales - Centennial
Harrogate - Cold Bath Gold
Harrogate - Plum Porter
Bingley - Moo Moo
Harrogate - Kursaal
Brass Castle - Bad Kitty
Tough choice but Harrogate - Plum Porter is an old favourite and BOTW
Also a small but well formed list.
Dark Star Green Hopped IPA
Dark Star Hop Head
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Almasty DDH Ekuanot Pale
Siren Suspended in Fog
Kult Rebel
Lytham Lytham Blonde
Navigation Smokin Joe
All good but Dark Star Green Hopped IPA Just edges it from Smokin Joe, both excellent.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A week seen chasing the West Midland Xmas ales saw this :-
St Austell Tribute 4.0%
Clouded Minds Luppol 4.2%
Batham's Best 4.3%
Bluestone Hammerstone 4.5%
Revolutions Swoon 4.5%
Titanic White Star 4.5%
Heritage Masterpiece 4.5%
Lymestone Stone Cold 4.7%
Derby Mercia IPA 5.0%
Sarah Hughes Surprise 5.0%
Intrepid Odin 5.1%
Salopian Disintegration 5.1%
Salopian Crosshair (keg) 5.1%
Slater's Haka 5.2%
Fownes King Korvan's Saga 5.4%
Love Lane Double Dry Hopped IPA 6.1%
Batham's XXX 6.3%
Enville Blizzard 6.5%
Titanic Wreckage 7.2%
Holden's Old Ale 7.2%
Sarah Hughes Snowflake 8.0%
The Batham's XXX was the most elusive and found in just one of three Batham houses. They don't brew enough of it!
Perversely the winner is a pale hop bomb the Salopian Disintegration as tried for £3.35 in the excellent Jolly Crispin in Upper Gornal for £3.35.
BOTW Salopian Disintegration
Surrey
Felday-Legacy 3.8%abv.Inoffensive traditional Bitter.Floral notes in the finish.
Felday-Festivity 4.2%abv.Ruby malty Christmas ale.Not really to my taste.
Tillingbourne-Black Troll 3.7%abv. Bible Black roasty,coffeeish Black session pale. My first example of Tillingbourne beers, and a worthy 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.
Bit of interest:
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Oakham Hawse Buckler*
Brancaster Malt House Bitter
Oakham Citra*
Brancaster Brewdolph*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Bothe Brewdolph and the Hawse Buckler are strong, dark beers which suited both the season and the mood. BOTW Oakham Hawse Buckler.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Quiet week for me, also.
North Riding - US Session Pale v40.*
Saltaire - Amarillo.
York - (Off the Wall) Gingerbread Latte.
Five Towns - Sweet Thing Reprise.
Half Moon - Jester.
The Session Pale was easily pick of the bunch.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.