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    Default Beer of the Week (w/e 18th April 2021)

    Beer outside actual pubs.

    Vocation Pride & Joy just shades it from Brew York Jarsa both taken in The Baum.
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    Back to the pub:

    Cask:
    Brancaster Oystercatcher*
    Adnams Ghost Ship*
    Oakham Bishops Farewell*

    Cans:
    Marble Earl Grey IPA*
    Marble Extra Special Marble
    Northern Monk Scafell*

    The cask beers were all fantastic and the Bishops took a bit of a beating but BOTW has to be Brancaster Oystercatcher as it was the first cask beer in four months and half a gallon just disappeared. Fantastic.
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    Petersham,Braunston and Euston.

    Twickenham -- Grandstand
    Sharp's -- Doom Bar
    Marston's -- Pedigree
    Salt/Pomona Island -- Shoop * (can)
    BrewDog -- Punk IPA (can)
    Hammerton -- N7 * (>3PT)
    Five Points -- XPA (keg)
    Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA * (can)

    Easy winner Hammerton N7 taken in volume at The Euston Tap on a great session made simple by top quality cask ale.

    Next week boating on very familiar territory,no new pubs ticks likely but lots of ale assurred.
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    I have had some excellent local beers in this first week of pub gardens opening:

    Tapped Mojo 3.6% brewed and drunk at (or just outside the front door of) the Sheffield Tap
    Kelham Island Best Bitter 3.8% brewed next door to and drunk in the garden of the Fat Cat
    Loxley Halliday Bitter 4.0% brewed just on the edge of Sheffield and drunk in the car park of the Raven Inn
    and not local but still excellent, Marble Bitter 4.0% drunk in the small back yard of the Beer House on Ecclesall Road, having made the journey over the Pennines from Manchester.

    Very hard to choose a favourite from those four. Marble has never been a favourite of mine, partly because of an early experience of a beer that tasted of lemon squash, so this Bitter was a bit of an eye-opener for me. It's not as bitter or as idiosyncratic as Boddingtons, which I think it is modelled on, but it was very good. However, for sheer quality and excellent condition, the Kelham Island Best is, by a nostril, my beer of the week.
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    Made one outdoor visit this week,with some trepidation, as I wasn't in the mood for faffing with apps and ordering blind, and had already passed several pubs before seeing the co-landlady of Larkins' Alehouse standing at the door. The back garden was full, but fortuitously the table on the street was available. The resulting glass of Kent Brewery-The Quiet American (abv 4.2%) was prime, and justified my decision not to take cask beer home in a plastic container during lockdown. My BOTW,though I rather enjoyed a can of Revolver Pale Ale (4%) from Good Things Brewing.
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    Three pubs plus stuff from the fridge

    Cask
    Flowerpots Perridge Pale
    Beartown Blubeary
    Beartown Creme Bearlee
    Wantsum Golgotha Stout
    Oakham Inferno
    Marble Manchester Bitter
    Chapter Hidden Lakes
    360⁰ Session India Pale Ale
    Disruption A Walk Thru Eden

    Keg
    Lost And Grounded I Wanna Be In The Sun

    Cans
    Northern Monk Northern Star
    Siren The Wedge
    Siren Granola Coaster Cacao & Orange
    Siren Futurist

    I wondered if a cask beer would be able to get past some of the tin selections given my love of hop forward , and of late stronger beer but BOTW goes to a beer before tasting I wouldn't have put my money on but BOTW goes to Marble Manchester Bitter, an extremely well put together beer and extremely well kept in The Wonston Arms
    Marble Manchester Bitter.jpg
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    Not a huge amount of choice on my East Kent foray, but the fresh Whitstable Bay Pale Ale from Shepherd Neame suited the sunny beer gardens very well.

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