A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Essex:
Bishop Nick-Heresy: 4%abv.Workmanlike English Golden ale.Floral citrus,mineral backbone.A great improvement on an earlier experience of Bishop Nick.By default, my BOTW.
"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.
This week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Church Farm Session IPA
Titanic The Wreckage
North Cotswold Windrush
Abbeydale Moonshine*
The Wreckage may well have taken the title had not just had a hint of being on the turn so BOTW goes to Abbeydale Moonshine. On superb form and easily passing the 3 pint test.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
A flying visit to Worcester, over the weekend, was the basis for this week's bibbing.
Hobson's - Town Crier.
Ambridge Ales - Indian Troop.*
Ambridge Ales - London Porter.
Malvern Hills - Black Pear.
Salopian - Golden Thread.
Craddocks - Crazy Sheep.
Prescott (Hanlons) - Super 6.*
Mallinsons - Mixology II.
Ledbury - Dark.
Overall, I was quite disappointed with the beer quality, which hovered between the adequate and the average. Only a couple offered a bit more. The easy winner was the Super 6, taken in one of my favourite pubs - The Cardinals Hat. It was good to see it how I remember it, as it had a spell in the doldrums, for a few years, apparently.
Last edited by aleandhearty; 06-06-2022 at 11:14.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Some excellent beer in both cask and keg in just three venues, The Alfred , Waggon And Horses and Ten Tun Taphouse.
Disruption Battle Royale Amarillo* c
Disruption Battle Royale Simcoe* k
Disruption People Of The Hop Vol lll* k
Stockport Stout c
Milestone Platinum IPA c
Saltaire DDH Citra* c
Animal Springbok* c
Five Points XPA* c
Five Points Best c
Oakham Bishops Farewell c
Oakham White Dwarf c
Gipsy Hill Bandit k
Howling Hops Tropical Deluxe* k
Howling Hops Swing Time* k
Salopian Lemon Dream* c
Salopian Shropshire Gold c
Siren Suspended In Experiments* k
Osset Voodoo* c
Atom Planisphere* c
Squawk Mallard* c
Goodh Painted Hills* k
Many of the starred could be BOTW but the Howling Hops Swing Time on keg in The Ten Tun Taphouse was just so very good it has to be the one.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Visit to Bromley.helped this weeks tally.
Tiny rebel-93 till infinity
Burnt mill -shoreline
Burnt mill - tapawara
Burnt mill - free surface
Burnt mill - liquefy
Coalition - the artful pale
Unbarred - morale ipa
Vocation - hawking
Br3wery -mortueka pale
Br3wery - peanut butter milk stout
Sambrookes - night shift mild
Wild beer - tropical storm
Fullers - platinum jubillee
360 - bluebell
Botw
Burnt mill - get tje onyx.a nice 6.4 west coast pale ale
Cheers