A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Bath,Weedon,Stevenage and Hertford but all low quantity drinking.
Five Points --Good Point,Well Made *
Goose Island -- IPA (bottle)
Charles Wells -- Dry Hopped Lager (keg)
Kirkstall -- Three Swords
Tring -- Bring Me Sunshine
BOTW goes to Five Points Good Point,Well Made ,a really good MILD taken in Kingsmead Street Bottle.
Next week a double dose of footie,so serious 'spoons action.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A better week than last, with some decent variety:
Anspach & Hobday - The Old Golden Bitter (c) *
Brewhouse - Triple AAA (c) **
Burning Sky - Plateau (c) *
Cloudwater - Brown Ale (c) Yawn.
Dark Star - Hophead (c) *
Durrell Arms - House Bitter? (c)
East London Brewing - Foundation (c) *
Redemption - Fellowship (c) *
Five Points - Best (c) **
Five Points - XPA (c) *
Fosters - Fosters (k)
Fyne Ales - Jarl (c) *
Hammerton - Cache (c) ½
Hardy & Hansons - Scrum Down (c) *
Marble - Stout (c) ½
Pig & Porter - All These Vibes (c)
St. Austell - Proper Job (c) *
Timothy Taylor - Landlord (c) *
Twisted Wheel Brew - Moonlight Shadow (c)
Wadworth - Horizon (c) *½
Young's - Special (c)
Runners up:
Mighty Oak - Oscar Wilde (c) **½ at The Wenlock Arms
Saltaire - Triple Choc (c) **½ at The White Horse
BOTW goes to Boxcar - Double Dark Mild (c) *** at The Old Fountain - quite sweet so I doubt I could manage another pint, but very moreish all the same, with a good complex taste and long finish; one to savour.
Bath, Surrey, West Sussex and Hants.
Hogs Back TEA
Fullers Wild River
Oakham Citra*
Abbey Bellringer
Wye Butty Bach
Marstons Bass
Parnay Nine Lives Porter
Imaginary Friends Cafe Con Leche
Buxton Future Life Preferences*
Listers Dark Mild*
Black Isle Yellowhammer
Odyssey Ghettos Of The Mind*
Team Toxic Black Custard*
Wantsum Motueka
Lakeland Blonde
Disruption My Walkabour Haze*
Disruption Cereal Thrilla*
Thornbridge Jaipur*
Hop Back Citra
Mallinsons Simcoe
The Cereal Thrilla is an exceptionally good keg Breakfast Stout and been Knocking on the door for the last two weeks but I have to go with the Jaipur as BOTW, a classic IPA and still doing the business. Both from The Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Drinking limited to Saturday only:
Tring Moongazing (4.2%)
XT 22 (4.2%)
XT 7 (4.5%)
Animal Ocelot (4.6%)
Also had a great home-brewed chocolate vanilla porter (5.4% ABV) at a mate's shed bar, that they'd cheekily named Janet Street.
BOTW: XT 22
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Some interesting beers this week, most found in the ever reliable Seven Stars.
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
XT Animal Guinea Fowl
Fownes Seven Crowns Sunburst IPA*
Lakealand IPA
Leatherbritches Bohemian Dark*
Impressed by the Seven Crowns Sunburst IPA although I'm not convinced that at 4.5% it qualifies. A decent pint nonetheless.
BOTW goes to Leatherbritches Bohemian Dark, a 5.9% rich and complex porter which didn't touch the sides.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter