A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Goacher's -Fine Light Ale:3.7% abv. Earthy goodness.
Only With Love-Reboot:4.5%. Mainly because of the name.Murky tropical trifle.Spicy finish.
My BOTW-Goacher's-Fine Light Ale.
"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.
Quality this week mainly courtesy of the Seven Stars:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Holdens Golden Glow*
Timothy Taylor Dark Mild*
Brunswick ESP The Ghan*
All good and all deserving of BOTW most weeks. The Golden Glow was less sweet than I remember and surprisingly good but BOTW goes to Brunswick ESP The Ghan. Single hopped with Galaxy according to the pump clip, this is a 4.5% bitter, pale which flew down.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Croydon and London Bridge
Baron -- Glug IPA (can)
Oakham -- Inferno *
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *
Southwark -- London Pale Ale
Marston's -- 61 Deep
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Purity -- Mad Goose
BOTW goes to (not for the first time) Oakham Green Devil IPA,freshly on and in superb form in The George.
Next week boating around Tamworth and Burton should produce some decent contenders.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Best week I've had in ages. Almost back to pre-lurgy times.
Red Willow - Amarillo Simcoe.*
Ossett / Salopian - Hybrid.
Horbury - Hop Assailant.
Horbury - White Hawk.
Rat - King Rat. *
Elland - 1872.*
Revolutions - Frank.
Moorhouses - Black Witch.*
Northern Monk - Great Northern.
Bingley - Dark Mild.*
Wensleydale - Bohemian Saaz.
Thornbridge - Cocoa Wonderland.*
Salamander - Silverback.
Rudgate - White Dragon.
Roosters - Little Changes.
Nailmaker - Plum Porter.
Riverhead - Standedge.*
Rat - Crazy Rat.*
Roosters - 24/7.
Salt - ESB.
Very hard to pick a winner from that list, but the Amarillo Simcoe, on a fresh palate, particularly hit the spot. Tried in Luis Bar @ Fernandes, which is back to its old best, once again.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
All within a 20 mile radius from home.
Disruption Missing Peace
Siren Suspended In Brut 1
The Kernel Pale Ale Galaxy*
Hop Kettle Tafel
Elephant School Porter In A Storm
Elusive/Siren/Malt Master Multiplayer*
Elusive/ Toms Tap And Brewhouse Road To Darkness*
Three Brothers AU
Magpie Trailhound
Lost And Grounded Long Story Short
Hop Back Spring Zing
BrewDog Dead Pony Club
Church End Grave Diggers Ale*
Wye Valley HPA
Piddle April Showers
The Church End Mild was excellent as was the Elusive collab Multiplayer, even more outstanding though was Elusive/TTB Elusive Road To Darkness.jpg, a 7.0% Export India Porter mixing malts and hops to perfection, on cask in the Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Camden, Islington and Hackney:
ELB - Cowcatcher **½
Five Points - Railway Porter **
Five Points - XPA **
Great Northern Ale - Northern Monk **½
Harvey's - Sussex Best **
Hobsons - Shropstar **
Howling Hops - Tadpole Jackpot
Macintosh Ales - Best Bitter *½
Oakham - Inferno **½
One Mile End - Black Ink *½
Pig & Porter - Slave to the Money *½
Purity - Mad Goose **
Redemption - Big Chief **
Redemption - Hopspur **
St. Austell - Tribute **
Sambrook's - Wandle ½
Shepherd Neame - Spitfire **
Southwark Brewing - Mayflower **½
Three Blind Mice - Have Your Cake and Eat It *½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Runner up:
Torrside Brewing - Franconia *** at The Cock Tavern, my first experience of a smoked beer.
BOTW:
Kirstall - Dexter Tiramisu ***½ at The Pembury Tavern, probably the smoothest beer I've ever drunk.