A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Winchester, Other bits of Hants and Surrey
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Flowerpots Goodens Gold
Flowerpots IPA
Roosters Capability Brown
Leather Britches The Bounder
Wantsum Hurricane
Wantsum Cashmere
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout
Three Legs Session Pale #3
Milk Street Gulp
Burning Sky Plateau
Siren Surrounded By Sound
Siren Suspended In Eclipse
Carlsberg Shipyard Pale Ale
Phantom Meadow Road
Red Cat Prowler
Queen Inn A Long Way From Pillowcases
Queen Inn Queen Of Sheba
Oakham Citra
Hop Back Summer Lightening
Twisted Urban Legened
The beer in Winchester was variable, from poor to not bad but BOTW comes from The Alfred just over the border for me into Surrey with Milk Street Gulp, a beer I didn't remember being as good as it was.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent: unscheduled.
Old Dairy Brewery-Table Beer 3.5%abv.A light and hazy pale, cucumberishly refreshing on a hot day.Excessively priced at £4.80, seeing it was taken at source.Old Dairy Brewery
"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.
Boston,Wisbech and Winchester.
Adnams -- Ghost Ship *
Roosters --Hops & Glory
Bateman's -- Summer Swallow
Bateman's -- XB
Elgoods -- Cambridge Bitter (>3PT)
Oakham -- Citra *
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Flower Pots -- Goodens Gold *
Siren -- Suspended in Eclipse
Hopback -- Summer Lightening *
Twisted -- Urban Legend
Flower Pots -- Perridge Pale *
Pleased to have enjoyed some old style low ABV bitters early in the week ,but BOTW goes to an old favourite Hopback Summer Lightening in the curious surrounds of the Black Boy,named after the coal heavers who once worked closeby at the now disused Itchen Navigation wharf.
Next week ,once the heatwave is over a gentle drift up to Oundle.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Staying in Eskdale again just two weeks after my previous trip, I decided to go to the Manor Arms again, this time on my bike (an interesting route over Birker Fell) with the train back making the return journey manageable. I planned to have a couple of pints, initially two halves followed by two more, but two of the beers were so good I just had to have the same two again: Ulverston Laughing Gravy 4% and Allendale Pennine Pale 4%. I made these both NBSS 5, because once again I was rendered speechless and in awe of the quality of the beer, and this time I really did change my plans and have another. (The other two beers were Townhouse Charter 3.5% and Salamander Golden 4.5%, neither of which was to my taste but I gave them NBSS 4.)
Of course, when I got to the station my train had been cancelled...
Come On You Hatters!
Other beers in a very good week included Lancaster Red 4.8% (NBSS 4) at the Sun Hotel in Lancaster and Neepsend Boreas IPA 6.7% (NBSS 3.5) at the Wellington in Sheffield. The latter is normally available on keg in the pubs associated with Neepsend brewery, but on this occasion they had put the live beer into a cask (what a novel idea) and it was gorgeous. I took my time over it - about 75 minutes for a pint! - and it was really enjoyable.
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Come On You Hatters!
Poor to not bad.Glad I didn't go.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
I didn't fair any better on the beer front and actually it was a crap week.11 beers one good three decent and seven mingers
Botw was oakham - green devil
Decent were
Vocation - chop and change simcoe
Milestone - American Red ale
Exeter - darkness
Mingers
Overtone - swalley
Mondo- Ronnie grapefruit pale
By the horns - squeeze
360 degrees - sussex haze
Thornebridge - brother rabbit
Battle- copper ale
Park - goodnight pete