Beer of the Week (w/e 18th September 2022)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Surrey, Hants, Berks.
Marble Manchester Bitter*
Phantom Groove
Phantom Manic Monday
Make Make The Solar System Etc*
Downlands Stroopwafel*
LHG Dream House
Butcombe Chinook
Hop Kettle King Of The Mountain
Hop Kettle Rising Star
Disruption Demokracy
Disruption Strangely Deserted
Vibrant Forest Rubus*
Vibrant Forest Pupa*
Wadworth 6X
Irving Frigate
Irving Admiral
Guinness
Wild Child Brownie Hunter*
Fallen Acorn Awaken*
New Bristol Mango & Lime Lassi Gose*
New Bristol Hey Day*
Animal Preying Mantis
Wiper & True Milk Shake*
Little Critters Single Batch Session #5*
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout*
Some very good as well as bloody awful beer in Southsea but BOTW was taken closer to home, Wiper & True Milk Shake in The Alfred, super smooth chocolate and vanilla.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Battersea and Hertford,a very modest week.
Empress -- British Pale Ale (bottle)
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA *
Efes -- Draft (b)
Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Amber Bay.
Easy winner of BOTW Thornbridge Jaipur IPA,very well kept in The Old Cross Tavern.
Next week has to be better with stops in Berkhamsted and Apsley.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Kent:in the Beer Tent.
Cellar Head: India Pale Ale 5%abv. Juicy marmalade.
Cellar Head: Session Pale Ale 3.8%abv. Prize winning.
Contrary to my doubts of last week, these were in tiptop condition,albeit served in plastic, for safety reasons.
My BOTW-Cellar Head IPA.
"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.
London and some bottles whilst holed up in the wilderness between Leominster and Ludlow:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Black Sheep - Best **
Bristol Beer Factory - Legacy *
Cloudwater - Happy
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Five Points - Best **
Five Points - Pale **½
Five Points - Railway Porter **½
Five Points - XPA **½
Hammerton - N1 **
Hand & Shears - House Bitter ½
Marble - Manchester **
Nicholson's - Pale Ale **
Oakham - Citra **
Oakham - Inferno (b) **
Otter - Ale *½
Pig & Porter - Skylarking *½
Purity - Mad Goose **½
St. Austell - Proper Job **½
St. Peter's - Organic Best (b) *½
St. Peter's - Plum Porter (b)
Titanic - Plum Porter (b) **
Wye Valley - Butty Bach **½
Beer With The Longest Name Of The Week: Bone Machine Brew Co. - Uncle Bard & The Dirty Bastards: The Men Beyond The Glass **½
BOTW - Dark Star - APA **¾ at The Wenlock Arms.
Wakefield (as per).
Rat - Ratmospheric.*
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Fernandes - Laika.
Nailmaker - Yorkshire Bitter.
Fernandes - Polaris.
Fernandes - Spaced Out.
The Ratmospheric and MSM were both in superb nick, barely a cigarette paper between them. However, as I've nominated the latter several times recently, I'll give BOTW to the Rat. Taken in Luis Bar @ Fernandes
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
This week:
Everards Tiger
Stockport Minstrel
Byatts Mythical Beast IPA*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
BOTW Byatts Mythical Beast IPA. A proper 5.5% IPA from, what is now, a reliable local brewery.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Pimlico,Camberwell and deptford
odyssey -let the good times roll
bakers dozen -la vache
bakers dozen - martes trece
nightjar -chosen
left hand giant brewpub -bitter
brick -pale ale calypso
elusive -reflex
orbit -red ale
salt -yon
salt -loom
howling hops -hauketo
pollys -maglev
and botw and longest named beer
pomona island -tam bo li de say de moi ya a lovely 7.4 export stout drank in Jars Bar Deptford
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
