Beer of the Week (w/e 9th October 2022)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Hants, Surrey and Berks.
Church End Vicars Ruin
Hammerton Tint
Pollys Sonar Bamboo*
Skinners Penny Come Quick
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Elusive Spellbinder*
Elusive Fog City*
Elusive Overdrive Lap 28*
XT 8
Animal Canine
Animal Mandarin Fish
Brentwood Falcon Punch
Wiper & True Milk Shake*
Disruption People Of The Hop vol 1V*
Beartown Kahuna*
Marble Stout
This weeks top beer is Elusive Fog City taken in The Elusive Taproom.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Mid Kent: first of the Kent Green Hop beers.
Kent-Green Giant: 6%abv.Resinous,spicy,earthy.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.
Stewart Brewing - summer Citra
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Enjoyed Derby Brewing Business as Usual. A tasty 4.4% BBB which slipped down well before shifting to the usual Bishops Farewell.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Black Sheep - Riggwelter.
Sampled in the unusual setting of The Chapel on the outskirts of Middlesbrough.
https://www.wearemiddlesbrough.com/f...ehouse-street/
Boxmoor,Carshalton and Croydon
Carlsberg -- Lager (keg)
St Austell -- Tribute
St Austell -- Proper Job
Arbor -- Matueka *
Left Handed Giant --English Golden Ale
Cellar Head -- Resonate
Brew York -- Tonkoko *
Redemption -- Fellowship Porter
Surrey Hills -- Shere Drop *
Kirkstall -- Dissolution IPA *(3PT)
Vault City -- Strawberry Sundae Sour * (keg)
Some great ale in The Hope but BOTW goes to Kirkstall Dissolution IPA on NBSS 4.5 form in The George. I did wonder if this beer was on to welcome the visiting Leeds fans with a brew from their fine beer drinking city.
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Well, was all organised, this week. Had a rare Saturday to myself and drew up a list of new bars / photos to take in Castleford and Pontefract, but in the end, just couldn't be arsed and did a teatime crawl round Wakey!
Chin Chin - Him Who Says Who.*
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Rat - Ratella.
Fernandes - Mosaic.*
Fernandes - Great Northern.*
Tigertops - Slip Away.
Small World - Thunderbridge Stout.
Roosters - Capability Brown.
Mallinsons - Amarillo.*
Half Moon - Stout.
Acorn - Powder Plot.
Another good week and quite close at the top, again. Will go with the Chin Chin, a real hop cocktail, featuring Simcoe, Waimea, Idaho 7, Eldorado and Centennial.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Reading area
Bond brews-bengal tiger
Wild weather -ssb
Portobello - sqidge stout
Church end - vicar's ruin
White horse - luna titan
Hop kettle - kasbek galena
Sox - pale
Floc - endless smile
Fullers - hop tropic
Fullers - vintage ale
The next two I got confused which was which but both excellent so have to be joint botw
Stardust - easy pale 4.0
Attic - intuition 4.4
on cask at the Fox and Hounds Caversham
London. Again:
Adnams – Ghost Ship **
Adnams – Mosaic **½
Bedlam Brewery – Benchmark *
Brew York – Tonkoko ½
Charrington – IPA **½
ELB – Cowcatcher **½
Five Points – Best **
Five Points – XPA **½
Hammerton – N1 **½
Hammerton – N7 **
Kent Brewery – Cobnut *½
Mighty Oak – Katzenjammer **
Nene Valley – Simple Pleasures *½
Redemption – Big Chief **½
Redemption – Fellowship **¼
Ringwood – Boondoggle **½
St. Austell – Proper Job*½
Sambrook’s – Junction **½
Shepherd Neame – Oast Dodger *½
Siren – Lumina ½
Siren – Memento **½
Southwark Brewing – Bankside Blonde **
Thornbridge – Jaipur **½
Tring – Tea Kettle **
Young’s – Original *½
BOTW goes to Vibrant Forest – Kick-Start[ **¾ at The Wenlock Arms
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