A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds) -No 5 4.4%abv.Plenty of East Kent hops this time.
Dartford Wobbler (Millis)-Dartford Wobbler 4.3%abv.Brown and malty. New brewery for me.
Angels and Demons-McCanns Janet Street 4.5%abv.Lovely dark brown almost black Green Hop Porter.Dry with hedge fruit.
My BOTW the wonderfully named (for those of us with a keen interest in the pretensions of popular culture) Janet Street.
"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.
A trip to Hebden Bridge on Saturday led to a very good Thornbridge Jaipur at the Old Gate.
Not a bad week, including a batch of Kent beers at the New Inn, Cropton beer festival.
Taylor - Boltmaker
Turning Point - Disco King
Box - Handlebar
Bad Seed - Filter Bubble
Turning Point - Lucid Dream
Harrogate - Kursaal Imperial Stout
Samuel Smiths Yorkshire Stingo (bottle)
Black Sheep Imperial Russian Stout (bottle)
Old Dairy - Copper Top
Northern Whisper - Summit
Time & Tide - Porter
Cattle Shed - Chocolate Milk Stout
Romney Marsh - Amber Ale
Taylor - Landlord
Helmsley - Striding the Riding
Banks's - Mild
Camerons - Strongarm
Ossett - Blonde
Taylor - Landlord
Kirkstall - Dexter
Oakham - Inferno
Titanic - Plum Porter Grand Reserve
A hard choice especially among the dark beers but I'll stick with one of Yorkshire's finest Harrogate - Kursaal Imperial Stout
Very quiet with just BOTW Oakham Bishops Farewell on cask. Reliable as ever.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Just a single pub visit so by default BOTW was Purple Moose Black Cherry Porter* in top form in the Old Cross Tavern .Not overpowering cherry,some vanilla and well balanced by good bitterness ,a very enjoyable quaff.
Next week looks equally bleak.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A day off last Tuesday with a short trip to Reading helped make the list even more interesting.
Vibrant Forest Summerlands
Vibrant Forest Cambrian Root*
Vibrant Forest Barbarella*
Three Blind Mice Milk Worm*
Wild Weather/New Lion War Against Reality*
Goffs Jester Brew 10*
Goffs Jester Brew 11
Beavertown Neck Oil
Navigation New Dawn*
Acorn Powder Plot*
Dent Dales Way
Red Cat Art Of T*
Test Brewing Dun Stout
Hop Back Entire Stout*
Flowerpots Goodens Gold*
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
West Berks Maharaja IPA*
There are 4 or 5 top contenders here but BOTW is Three Blind Mice Milk Worm,described as a Milk Porter it scored a rare NBSS 4.5 for me in The Nags Head,narrowly edging out the Barbarella, a Rhubarb IPA in the same venue.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
triple fff -jabberwalky
arbor -the devil made me brew it
weird beard -dodo
fourpure -last train
fourpure-typhoon hazy ipa
Brixton -routes and branch
black jack -euchre
Manchester -orange ipa
hop shed -phoenix porter
pig and porter -lilac time? mild
howling hops -last post
howling hops got pipped at the post for
beer of the week
two by two-ddh simcoe and amerillo at the Dodo micropub