Had a nice few Beers this Last week as I was off work
Adnams Broadside 4.7%
SA Gold 4.7% Brains
Old Hooky 4.5% The Hook Norton Brewery
Barnsley Gold 4,3% Acorn Brewery
Bishops Finger 5.5% Shepherd & Neame
Ten Fifty 5.0% The Grainston Brewery
Bearskinful 4.2% Beartown Brewery
Above Were just A few of the good ones I had But the Best of the week was the Barnsley Gold 4.3% from the Acorn Brewery,
Don't You just hate Pubs that say
( We don't stock any Real Ales as theres Just no call for it.)
I wasn't planning on going to the pub last week, and didn't, but things were redeemed by the firkins of Harveys Sussex Best Bitter at our neghbour's wedding breakfast. So both by default and through quality, my Beer of the Week is...Harvey's Sussex Best bitter.
Black Sheep Riggwelter that we had at Greys Inn in Embleton, Northumberland my BOTW last week.
Church End Porter (I forget the exact title...gravedigger??) at the Hobgoblin in Reading was my BOTW, though the Triple FFF IPA at the Nags Head (Reading) ran it close.
Lots of mentions for the Jaipur IPA this week and I had a couple myself. It was a toss up between that and the Morrissey Fox Aussie IPA….until Sunday.
Walked into an occasional pub for me as they have a good reputation for ales and saw a line of six pumps, only beer I knew was Landlord. Plumped for the Polar Star from somewhere then spotted what looked like a 7% beer hiding at the end called Summer something. It was indeed 7% the landlord told me proudly and very popular, a couple of pints later I could see why. It’s a light coloured beer with a strong taste but very drinkable. It took me a while to work out the word play in the name but my BoTW is Church End Summer-terother.
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.
A disappointing run in Glasgow this week, so botw for me is Hopback Summer Lightning in my local.
Not too bad a beer-week all in all, with 17 pints a few bottles guzzled over a 4-day period.
Guinness x 9
Exmoor Gold x 2
Carlsberg [bottle] x 1
Courage Directors [bottle] x 1
Wychwood Hobgoblin [bottle] x 1
Nelson Pieces Of Eight [bottle-conditioned] x 1
Hogs Back Summer Ale x 1
Daleside Monkey Wrench x 1
St Austell Tribute x 1
Sharp's Doom Bar x 3
BOTW: Exmoor Gold