Beer of the Week (w/e 2nd October 2022)

[ROBCamra]

[hondo]

Swannay Brewery - Orkney IPA

[aleandhearty]

Good week for me. Wakefield (as per).

North Riding - USA IPA.*
Vocation - Chop & Change.*
Oakham - Citra.
Nailmaker - Plum Porter.*
Wensleydale - Black Dub.
Stancill - Endeavour.
Mallinsons - Rockets & Feathers.*
Wensleydale - Protagonist.
Tigertops - Slip Away.
Fernandes - Mosaic.
Marston's - Wainwright. (keg)
Thornbridge - Kipling.*
Acorn - Gorlovka.*
Harrogate Beer Week Collective - High Five.*

Some good beers, on cracking form, this week. Quite close at the top, but I'll go with an old favourite, not seen in ages. Taken in
Harry's Bar.

[Bucking Fastard]

Colchester,Hertford and South Norwood.

Colchester -- Jack Spitty's Smuggler's Ale *
Colchester -- Bearded Lady *
Chelmsford -- West Coast IPA *
Roosters -- Easy Going Assassin
Elephant School -- My Milk Stout Brings All The Bulls to The Yard * (Prize for longest beer name )
Colchester -- Old King Coel London Porter *
Wolf -- Sly Wolf
Bristol Beer Factory -- Milk Stout *
Fuller's -- Dark Star Hophead
Fuller's --ESB
Fuller's -- London Pride * (as well kept as I can ever remember )
Northern Monk -- A Little Faith (keg)

Colchester offered some very fine ale ,so difficult BOTW choice goes to Colchester Old King Coel London Porter on NBSS 4 form in the fine surroundings of The Odd One Out.

Next week Carshalton and some footie in a warm up for Burton.

[Wittenden]

Mid Kent:

Larkins-Premium Bitter 5.5%abv. A new 'un from Larkins:A dark ruby ESB,malty with resinous hops.Good, but I don't think I'd want too many!

[Thuck Phat]

Not a bad week:

Titanic Plum Porter*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Spey Valley Spey Cadet
Byatts Novus Porter*
Byatts Heavenly Juice IPA*

Another 2 winners from Byatts with BOTW going to Byatts Heavenly Juice IPA. A fruity but dry 5.8% proper IPA.

[Mobyduck]

Oxford plus the usual suspects

Redemption Fellowship*
Elusive Oregon Trail*
Vault City Cloudy Lemonade*
Cloudwater Happy
New Bristol Mavericks
Disruption Surfing Sunsets
Wiper & True Milk Shake*
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
White Horse (Luna) Titans
White Horse Village Idiot
Black Sheep Velo
Animal Bearded Reedling
Sam Smiths Export Stout*
Beavertown Neck Oil
Bristol Beer Factory Fresh Tracks*
Marble Stout
Howling Hops Road To Unruin*
Siren Suspended In Ella
Siren Out Like A Light*
Siren Carribean Chocolate Mole Cake*

Some really good stuff but head and shoulders above all is Siren Carribean Chocolate Mole Cake, at 8.8% one of the most complex yet so balanced beers I've ever tasted, beautiful, taken in The Ten Tun Taphouse on keg during a Siren tap takeover, I really hope there's some left when I visit again tomorrow, highly unlikely though.

[Tris39]

Quite a good week in London:

Adnams – Ghost Ship**½
Beavertown – Rocket Man *
Dark Star – APA **½
Dark Star – Hophead **½
Dark Star – Orbiter **½
ELB – Cowcatcher **
Five Points – Best *½
Fyne Ales – Vital Spark **½
Hammerton – N7 **½
Portobello – Market Porter **½
Purity – Jimbo **½
St. Austell – Tribute **½
Sambrook’s – Junction **
Sambrook’s – Wandle *½
Southwark Brewing – Mayflower **½
Stroud Brewery – Budding **½
Thornbridge – Jaipur **½
Thornbridge – Lord Marples **½
Turning Point – Chip Hazard
Twickenham – Naked Ladies **½

But again, there's a two-way tie with BOTW going to:

Brew York – Tonkoko **¾ at The Old Fountain.

Siren – Broken Dream **¾ at The Woodbine.

[Real Ale Ray]

Brinkburn - Quayside Blonde in Brinkburn Street Brewery

Easily passed the 3 pint test and the rest

[london calling]

Had a lot of good beers in Hammersmith,Chiswick and Brentford
Botw

Verdant -I remember having one 3.8 on cask in the George 1v Chiswick