All sampled in the last couple of months:
3rd Redemption - Fellowship at The Queens Head
2nd Siren - Project Barista Hazelnut at The Kings Head
1st Hammerton's - Penton Oatmeal Stout at The Lady Mildmay
All sampled in the last couple of months:
3rd Redemption - Fellowship at The Queens Head
2nd Siren - Project Barista Hazelnut at The Kings Head
1st Hammerton's - Penton Oatmeal Stout at The Lady Mildmay
My three best pub beers although during the pandemic I have not been too fussed about keeping records thinking in the next few weeks this will.be all over.How wrong I was.all.keg
Lervig- 3 bean imp stout microbeers mortlake
Wild weather -orange milkshake ipa beerkats ealing
Brewdog -billionaire imp stout brewdog reading
Working on the assumption that these are beers new to the scribe, rather than freshly hatched, my three best new beers are:
Kent-Beyond the Pale
Wensleydale-Black Dub
Old Dairy-Breakfast Stout.
"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.
Scrolling through my NBSS scores,only three ales scored 5,namely
Oakham Green Devil IPA
Titanic Plum Porter
Blue Monkey Infinity +1
.....but I've had many pints of these over the years,so "New " Beer of the Year goes to
Five Towns Algorithm Dodger ,a powerful but delicate blueberry double IPA sampled in Henry Boons,on a big night out in Wakefield while boating.It unhinged some of the crew.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
3rd: BrewDog Mallow Laser Quest
2nd: Titanic Wreckage
1st: Titanic Grand Reserve Plum Porter
Latter two both taken at Oxford's superb Royal Blenheim.
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields