A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Joseph Holts bitter. Several in the Ape and Apple in Manchester on Saturday either side of a Chinese meal.
Choice still limited:
Brancaster The Wreck
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Beavertown Neck Oil (keg)
The Wreck was ok but slightly malty for my tastes so for the second week BOTW goes to Adnams Ghost Ship.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Three pub visits and some cans.
North Brewing -- Lost Cosmonaughts (c)
Nethergate -- Old Growler
BrewDog -- Punk IPA (c)
BrewDog -- Dead Pony Club (c)
Oakham -- Citra *
Tring -- Tailchaser *
Northern Monk -- Faith (keg)
BOTW goes to Tring Tailchaser,a monthly special using heritage malts and experimental English hops (X35 what ever that is ?) and despite only 4.1% and looking like a BBB this was a fine quaff with some spicey notes and heather.Another winner from Tring,the change of brewer has made a big impact.Sampled in the Old Fountain.
Next week more boat painting so trying to find rural pints before end month sessions in Hertford and Euston Tap.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Kent
Ramsgate (Gadd's) HPA 3.6%abv. A hoppy pale ale from the sage of Thanet. Ideal for a sunny Saturday.
"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.
managed a couple of trips into Harrogate for some decent beers:
Turning Point - Disco King
Nightjar - Batfink
By The Horns - Diamond Geezer
Roosters - Yankee
Bristol Beer Factory - Notorious
Cloudwater - This beer is your body
Almasty / 71 Brewing - North Goes West
Daleside - Old Legover
Buxton - SPA
backed up with a few tins of Roosters.
Unusual to see a Cloudwater beer in cask format, it was Manchester Murky but BOTW is Nightjar - Batfink, the Turning Point is fairly hazy as well but "Knaresborough Murky" doesn't work as illiteration.
London , Surrey & local.
Siren - Undercurrent
Kent - APA
The Kernel - Pale Ale
Hobsons - Evolution
Dorking - Surrey XPA
Disruption - Battle Royale
Hepworths - Conqueror Stout
Firebrand - Patchwork Rocket
Firebrand - West Coast Session IPA
Wantsum - Black Pig
Flowerpots - Perridge Pale
Oakham - JHB
Still finding a lot of cask rather lacking in any umph but the Firebrand Westcoast Session IPA had excellent flavour in The Alfred. BOTW.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
And still no pub time.
Beavertown - Neck Oil. (c)
Thornbridge - Green Mountain. (c)
Camden - Show Off. (c)
Bad Co. - West Coast PA. (c)
Beavertown - Lupuloid. (c)
Getting quite a taste for this 'hazy Vermont session IPA'. Hardly surprising, considering it's dry-hopped with Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic and Amarillo. Look forward to trying it on draught at the Banker's Cat, Leeds, at some stage.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I'd never heard of Firebrand until somebody mentioned them on another site I dip into. Took a punt, ordered a mixed case and was very impressed. I also enjoyed the West Coast Session IPA, but the star for me was the Citra Simcoe NE IPA (6%). Knowing our tastes are quite similar I think you'd love that. Not sure if they do it as cask / keg though.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.