Beer of the Week (w/e 11th September 2022)

[ROBCamra]

[Mobyduck]

Lewes, Reading, Surrey and Hants.
Gun Scaramanga*
Gun Project Babylon*
Harveys Sussex Best
Harveys In Harmony*
Dark Star Revelation*
Dark Star Sunquake
Dark Star APA*
Downlands Duvet Days
St Austell Proper Job*
Rother Valley Hoppers Dry Ale
Hogs Back Hop Yard Pale*
South Oxford Corkers
Burnt Mill Beyond The Firs*
Iron Pier Heritage X Ale*
Utopian/Elusive American Amber
Thornbridge Rattlesnake*
Quantock Seek And Find*
Hop Back Golden Harvest
Wantsum Loral
Farm Yard Hoof*
Animal Wombat
New Bristol Memories Not Things
Marble Pint
Siren Suspended In Eldorado*
Siren Suspended In New Zealand*

Easy choice this week, the Dark Star Revelation was in stunning form in the equally Stunning Lewes Arms.

[Wittenden]

Kent:

Only With Love-Champion big Session IPA 4.9%abv: Absent mindedly I drank this as a Best Bitter, albeit one with a kotchel of hops tempering the background malt.The first OWL beer reaching the crucial 4 star level for me.My BOTW.

Next Saturday I'll be in the beertent,so gawd knows what warm pelt I'll be drinking from plastic mugs.

[Bucking Fastard]

Tring,Richmond,Kings Cross.

Tring -- Sidepocket for a Toad
Vale -- Red Kite
Fuller's -- Hophead
Oakham -- Original Pale Ale *
Almasty -- Mosaic Pale Ale (keg)
Fuller's -- Hop Tropic
Dark Star --Galaxy Haze
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Siren -- Yulu
Fuller's -- Oliver Island
Redemption -- Big Chief
Little Creatures -- Pale (keg)
Little Creatures -- Cherry Wheat Beer (keg)
Vault City -- Key Lime Pie Sour *(keg)
Northern Monk/Kweza -- Sorghum IPA *(keg)
Greene King -- IPA


A mixed bag with BOTW going to Vault City Key Lime Pie Sour ,which did exactly what it said on the tin in Beer + Burger.Certainly not a session beer.

Next week nothing much planned,but some celebration on receiving my bus pass and other benefits.

[Tris39]

Oxford and London again...

Adnams - Ghost Ship **1/2
Brew York - Tonkoko *
Dark Star - Hophead *1/2
Dark Star - Sunquake *1/2
Lister's - Limehouse Porter 1/2
Loddon - Dragonfly ***
Nicholson's - Pale Ale **
North Brewing - Vanishing Point 1/2
Northern Monk - Eternal *1/2
Oakham - Citra **1/2
Plain - Innocence 1/2
St. Austell - Proper Job **1/2
Siren - Memento **
Titanic - Chocolate & Vanilla Stout
Titanic - Iceberg **
XT - Animal (Bearded Reedling) **1/2

BOTW goes to Thornbridge - Jaipur ***1/2 at The Myddleton Arms

[london calling]

Central Londonish
Kernal - table beer
Odyssey- leaving in the light
Odyssey - this land
Twisted wheel - come and go
Heritage - masterpiece
Neptune - medusas gaze
Vocation - devil's leap
Burning Sky- what gives
Small beer - steam
Bowland - boxer blond
Brewdog - trainspotter
Cellar head - hop project 007
Botw
Iron pier - Perry St pale in the Waterloo tap

[aleandhearty]

Wakefield (as per).

Rat - White Rat.
Chantry - Special Reserve.*
Tigertops - Slip Away.
Wilde Child - Perpetual Recurrence.*
Mallinsons - Hops United.
Chin Chin - Dead Man Walking.
Salamander - Gothic Stout.
North Riding / Five Towns - Sparklers My Arse.
Jolly Sailor - Selby Kolsch.
Sunbeam - Polka Hop Pale.
Chin Chin - Circadia.
Fernandes - Spaced Out.
Fernandes - Hopmaster.
Fernandes / Five Towns - TVC15.

Well, the North Riding / Five Towns collaboration certainly wins name of the week! However, the honour proper goes to the Special Reserve, the first old ale I've had for quite a while. Taken in the Old Print Works.