A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Managed to get a few beers in on another restrained week.
Dark Star Hophead
T.Taylors Landlord
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Big Smoke Solaris
Hogs Back Hop Garden Gold
Joules Pure Blonde*
Manning Music Man*
Revolutions Clash*
Bakers Dozen Electric Landlady*
BOTW is the Electric Landlady, stunningly good with The Alfred coming up with the goods yet again.
Should be a decent list coming up this week as I'm in Bristol on Thursday and Friday.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A couple of swifties in Huddersfield, before a gentle wander round Halifax was the basis of this week's bibbing.
Mallinsons - Kiwi Calypso.
Roosters - Gridiron.
Shiny - Affinity.
Church End - Goats Milk.
Vocation - Bread & Butter.*
Rat - Ratcher in the Rye.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Vocation - Life & Death.*
Nightjar - Moloko.*
Burning Sky - PLateau.
Squawk - Aix.
KIrkstall - Dissolution IPA.*
Blackjack - Porter.
Salopian - Kashmir.*
Eagles Crag - Black Eagle.
Fernandes - Black Voodoo.
Fernandes - Great Northern.
Quite a few contenders, this week. However, the Life & Death, a big hitting modern IPA (6.5%), really perked up a jaded mid-session palate. Sampled in the Square Chapel Bar, Halifax.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Cross Borders - East Coast Pale keg
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Harlow and St Albans.
Mc Mullens -- AK
Mc Mullens -- IPA
ABC -- Moose Springsteen Milkshake IPA (keg)
Mad Squirrel -- Big Sea IPA *
3 Brewers of St Albans -- English Golden Ale *
St Austell -- Big Job
Oakham -- Northern Pacific
BOTW goes to Mad Squirrel Big Sea IPA,a chunky 6% but well balanced in the correctly named Mad Squirrel Tap in St Albans.
Next week boating through Wolverhampton means a compulsory stop at the Great Western and then a Brum city centre adventure,before an end month session then footie so could be a big week.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Meanwhile back at the thread, here's my list:
Taylors - Hoptical Storm
Bad Co - Pale Aura
Theakstons - Avalanche
Theakstons - XB
Black Sheep - Twilighter
Rat - King Rat
Black Hole Brewery - Supernova
Cobra - Lager
Dark Star - Hophead
Saltaire - No5
Carling - Lager
Carlsberg - Lager
Saltaire - Blonde
Leeds - Calypso
Old Spot - OSB
Taylors - Golden Best
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter
I drank quite a lot of Carling/Carlsberg while researching Keighley on behalf on Pubs Galore and a lot of Macallan partly to take the taste away, the Cobra was with a curry of course.
BOTW Black Hole Brewery - Supernova
Last edited by oldboots; 27-08-2019 at 19:20.
A very slow week for me with just a few JDW outings :-
Black Sheep Twilighter 3.9%
Portobello Decca Supreme Session Ale 4.3%
Lancaster Black 4.5%
HHook Norton Old Hooky 4.6%
Purple Moose Dark Side Of The Moose 4.6%
Banks;s Yazoo Hop Perfect IPA 4.8%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
The two best were the Yazoo JDW International and the Black Sheep Twilighter. The Black Sheep gets it, a low abv hoppy Summer pale / golden ale. It was £2.15 in the Welling JDW. Also had various tins from Tesco the best of which was the Thornbridge Halcyon.
BOTW Black Sheep Twilighter
Kent
Iron Pier-Joined at the Hop series Eureka and Callista:3.9%abv-Pale,hazy.Earthy mint, very bitter.Stone fruit.
Jennings-Cumberland Ale 4%abv-Not at its best,verging on the Poor. A pity, as I'm quite fond of this beer.My BOTW-Iron Pier Eureka and Callista.
"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.
Gentle week:
Oakham Citra*
Salopian Darwins Origin*
St Austell Proper Job
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
BOTW Salopian Darwin's Origin. A very decent, moreish best bitter. Or should that be amber ale?
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter