A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Some very nice beer this week, some a bit pricey in that London.
Castle Rock Harvest Pale
Three Brothers IPA
Great Newsome Stoggy
Marble Pint
Magic Rock Conjurer
Magic Rock Highwire Grapefruit
Anspach+ Hobday Belgian Pale Ale
Anspach + Hobday Smoked Brown
Thornbridge Crackendale
BrewDog Clockwork Tangerine
Pressure Drop Tambourine Mountain
Petrus Aged Pale (Foeder No 102)
Stigbergets 0/0 Katten IIPA
As I said some top beer was had and Three Brothers that was pipped at the post last week was nailed on this, but pipped again, this week by BOTW Petrus Aged Pale , a complex on many levels sour keg beer thoroughly enjoyed in my favourite London beer pub, The Kings Arms.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Mighty Oak Brewing's Kings at The Myddleton Arms . Very nice and £2.10 the half.
A visit to South Wales resulted in this :-
Brain's Dark 3.5%
Tiny Rebel One Inch Punch 3.9%
Grey Trees Caradog's Bitter 3.9%
Brain's SA Gold 4.3%
Bru Pale 4.3%
Half Moon Session IPA 4.3%
Bluestone Hammerstone 4.5%
Animal Platypus 4.6%
Brewdog 5am Saint (keg) 5.0%
Tiny Rebel Pump Up The Jam 5.0%
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft 5.2%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Loddon Forbury Lion 5.5%
Tiny Rebel Stay Puft Imperial Chocolate (keg) 9.0%
When Tiny Rebel get things right it's usually pretty good. They haven't got it right with the Pump Up The Jam which is described as a Jam Doughnut Pale Ale. It tasted like a cheap and nasty budget jam from a supermarket. I was glad to nail the Turbo Stay Puft but it didn't taste all that different to the standard cask version. It was a whopping £7.80 a pint while my BOTW Stay Puft was three quid less at the Newport Tint Rebel bar.
BOTWW Tiny Rebel Stay Puft
Nothing mind blowing this week but this was the best
Mothership -cardoman and rose stout
new London all female brewery according to the blurb. I am sure a new brewery describing itself as an all male brewery might get some adverse press.
Quite, and has anyone complained about the Mordue Radgie Gadgie which is Geordie speak for a miserable old bloke which is sexist. I'm proud that the head brewer of my local brewery is a mixed race female but can't help thinking that the issue of sexist beer names is overblown. Dorothy Goodbody at Wye Valley seems to have been replaced which is the only one I had any doubts about. Elsie Mo has a new clip and Top Totty has been renamed. Are there really that many others?
Kent:
Tonbridge-Old Chestnut 4.4%abv.Dark,fruity.Serious malt.
Three Legs-Pale 3.7%abv.Grassy.Hints of austerity.
Larkin's-Traditional 3.4%abv.nutty.
My BOTW, for the second time , is Three Legs Pale.
"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.
Hawkshead - Brodies Prime Porter
A very quiet week for me.
Marston's Pedigree
Vocation x Yeastie Boys Breakfast Club
No prizes for guessing that the Breakfast Club was my Beer of the Week. 6.9% ABV stout in a can.