A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A light week in variety
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Errant Tears Of Heaven
Adnams Lighthouse
Kent Bounty Hunter
Elusive Inertia
Five Points Pale
BOTW is Five Points Pale, superb in The Waterloo Tap.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Predictably a quiet week :-
Windsor & Eton Silent Knight Of The Garter 3.8%
Crouch Vale Brewers Gold 4.0%
Red Squirrel Resolution 4.2%
Moncada Notting Hill Blonde 4.3%
ELB Walthamstow Beer Green Hopped Pale (bottle) 4.5%
ELB Walthamstow Beer Green Hopped Dark (bottle) 4.5%
Brentwood Toblerone Stout 4.5%
Salopian Kashmir 5.5%
Marston's Old Empire 5.7%
Dark Star Imperial Stout 10.5%
The easy winner is the Dark Star Imperial Stout at the annual ritual in the E17 Rose & Crown. It was £5.80 on Xmas Eve and £6.00 on Boxing Day. I got a free half pint on Boxing Day from a geezer who was collapsing into a black hole and thought he should immediately go home! The ELB bottles were a result of the so called IS and were expensive but pleasant enough.
BOTW Dark Star Imperial Stout
South Norwood,Pentonville,Croydon,Shoreditch.
Steady Rolling Man -- Pale *(keg)
Burning Sky -- Plateau
Thornbridge -- Tonttu
Lagunitas -- IPA (keg)
Magic Rock -- High Wire *
Holler -- Heavy Lifting Stout *
Marble -- Lagonda IPA (keg)
Magic Rock -- Ringmaster
Kent -- Clerkenwell Pale
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *
Titanic -- Plum Porter *
Truman's -- Runner
BOTW went to Oakham Green Devil IPA on cask in The George and on absolutely top form.I sometimes see this on keg in some pubs,but the cask version was sublime.
Next week predictably quiet.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Kent:no pub visit this week.On the indoor front, my BOTW was Fuller,Smith and Turners Double Stout, a birthday present saved until Christmas Eve.
"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.
Heavy Industry - Forza
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan