A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Short on variety but long on quality:
Oakham Bishop’s Farewell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
Adnams Ghost Ship*
All good but BOTW goes to Adnams Ghost Ship as 3 very welcome pints flew down after a long walk.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Stratford upon Avon.
Yeastie Boys -- Digital IPA (can)
Vocation -- Life & Death (can)
BrewDog -- Punk IPA(can)
Hanlon's -- Stormstay
Purity -- Mad Goose *
Greene King -- IPA
Pentrich -- Perfect Sounds IPA * (keg)
Three Hills -- Trium Faba Imperial Stout * (keg)
Vault City -- Strawberry Woo Woo Sour * (keg)
Vault City -- Pineapple & Habernero Sour (bottle)
BOTW goes to Three Hills Trium Faba ,an 11% Russian Imperial Stout on keg at Ya-Bard.Intense coffee but with vanilla and then subtle coconut I didn't mind paying £3.95 for a third in such convivial surroundings.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Yorkshire
Roosters - London Thunder
Bristol Beer Factory - ?
Turning Point - Abandon All Hope
Kirkstall - Pale
Scheinder - Weisse Tap 4 (K)
Brains - Bitter
Rat - White Rat
Hambleton - Nightmare Porter
Roosters - Super Cascade V
Samuel Smith - Old Brewery Bitter
Rudgate - Ruby Mild
Turning Point - Disco King
Half Moon - Masquerade Mild
Acorn - Barnsley Bitter
Lots of dark beers so BOTW Roosters - London Thunder had in various places this week.
Drink drink, whoever you may be,
we are the drunk and disorderly,
and we’ll drink more beer wherever we may be,
and we’ll meet you all in a pub said he.
Dr Busker
Kent,East Sussex
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') -East Kent IPA 6.5%.A real heavy hitter:juicy flint, perfectly conditioned.Epic.A welcome change from those murky,fluffy confections masquerading as IPA.
Brumaison-Flaxen XPA 3.8%. Very pale, a bit thin.Taste of onions.Hmm.
Gun-Scaramanga 3.9%. Crisp session pale ale.
My BOTW-Gadds' East Kent IPA,taken,as is often the case,at Larkins' Alehouse
"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.
An interesting week...
First & Last Equinox
Two By Two New England Simcoe*
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
Flowerpots IPA
Roosters Yankee
Arbour Cafe Creme (C)*
Cross Bay Zenith*
Ascot Starting Gate
Disruption A Long Walk Thru Eden*
Settle Ernie's Milk Stout *
Parker Barbarian Bitter
Thomos & Lilford White Hare*
Parkway Cheeky Monkey
Piddle Coal Porter
Some very good and different beers amongst the list, the Arbour Cafe Creme was exceedingly good albeit from a can but taken in a pub, the favourite of the week though and BOTW is Cross Bay Zenith, Three pints over two days in The Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Vocation - 15 mile round trip.
Drank on a bench by the Tees in North Yorkshire.