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.
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'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
Still stuck mainly in Oxford, so a bit Groundhog Day, but all cask:
Abbeydale - Salvation **
Adnams - Eastern Edge **
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Crouch Vale - Anchor Street Porter *½
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Five Points - Best *½
ELB - Cowcatcher **½
Fuller's - Platinum Jubilee Ale **
Hook Norton - Old Hookie **
Lister's - IPA **
North Cotswold - Jumping Jack Jubilee *½
Oakham - Citra **¾
St. Austell - Proper Job **½
St. Austell - Tribute *½
Shotover's - Trinity **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord *½
XT - Animal **
BOTW goes yet again to Titanic - Plum Porter ***½ at The Royal Blenheim
Late on parade,last week was all about N1.
Adnams -- Ghost Ship *
Deya -- Glue (keg)
New River -- London Tap
Purity -- Mad Goose
St Austell -- Proper Job
Signature -- Studio Lager (keg)
360 Degrees -- ESB
Five Points -- XPA *
Marstons -- 61 Deep
A very mixed bunch,with BOTW going to Five Points XPA on fine form in The Cellars.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Started last week with a couple of beers from the last ever batch from Kelham Island Brewery at the Fat Cat. Both Kelham Best and Pale Rider were in tip top condition.
Next day was Acorn Barnsley Bitter at the Bath Hotel, a splendid beer in superb condition.
Thursday was a trip to Pudsey, where the beer was mostly pretty average, in the derogatory sense of the word. Three out of six were keg (Sam Smiths, John Smiths, and a very odd Worthington Creamflow that was dark instead of copper-coloured), and the cask beers were nothing to write home about.
Friday was Mickleover, a suburb of Derby, where the best beer of the day was the first: just a half of Everards Tiger. It was so good I immediately thought I should have had a pint, but with another seven pubs ahead of me, it just wasn't on. A subsequent Bass at the Nags Head, and another at the Vine were both pretty good, but even another Tiger at the Brunswick before the train back to Sheffield didn't come close to that first beer of the day.
Saturday was Leatherbritches Porter at the Blake Hotel, with a pale called Danger High Voltage from Bristol Beer Factory. They complemented each other (in different glasses, of course), but I'm not sure I could have managed a pint of either of them without the other to take the edge off.
Beer of the Week: Everards Tiger at the Honeycomb in Mickleover.
Come On You Hatters!