A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Cask
Disruption Azacca*
Big Smoke Music Room
Heritage St Modwen
Isle Of Purbeck Full Steam Ahead
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Flowerpots Goodens Gold
Oakham Citra*
Roosters Twenty Four Seven
Kent Session Pale*
Goddards Ale Of Wight
Goffs White Knight
Keg
Elusive/Vibrant Forest Anomalous Materials*
BOTW is Kent Session Pale taken in The Wonston Arms.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A trip to Manchester, where four out of the five pubs visited were disappointing for one reason or another. The exception was the Hare & Hounds on Shudehill, where the Holts Bitter was drinking very well. What a superb beer, and an excellent pub too.
[Anyone suffering from deja vu, I posted this in last week's thread, having not read the date. Apologies.]
Come On You Hatters!
Only beer of the week:
Two bottles of Proper Job consumed yesterday. A much favoured beer on cask though never before sampled from bottle, but the puzzling increase in ABV from 4.5% (cask) to 5.5% (bottle) gave the beer a rather harsh quality which I really didn't like; I won't be buying it in bottle again.
Finally, after fifteen long months, I managed to get to the pub this weekend. Not only that, it was in the fine company of Cap'n Bucking Fastard, Thuck Phat and the rest of the crew. Several of Wakefield's finest were visited.
Cask:
Fernandes - Malt Shovel MILD.*
Wishbone - Abyss.
4Ts - English Stout.
North Riding - Harry's Cascade.*
Darkland - Jera.
Great Northern - Holderness Dark.
Alechemy - Bad Day At the Office.*
MSM is one of my favourite beers and it was my first pint after lockdown. Although it wasn't quite at the top of its game, that first mouthful was a pretty special moment. Taken, appropriately, in the Fernandes Brewery Tap.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Kent,East Sussex:
Seems a long time ago, but...
Harveys Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv. The sole cask beer in The Milk House in these uncertain times, but in cracking form. I contrasted this with the "bright" version at a wedding. More was drunk of the latter, but the pub version was superior.
Long Man Best Bitter 4%abv. A reassuringly old school stalwart. After- note of almonds. My BOTW,taken at The Ram Inn
"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.