A pub is for life not just for Christmas
London and local
Salopian Shropshire Gold
By The Horns Hopadelic
St Peters Cream Stout*
Sambrooks Candlemaker
BrewDog Simcoe IPA
Bristol Beer Factory Daydreaming
Double Barrelled Layers*
Vault City Blackcurrant Choc Chip Waffle*
Renegade Maggs Mild
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Gipsy Hill Bandit
Marble Manchester Bitter*
Vocation Chop & Change*
Cellar Head Ernest
Brew York S'more Tonkoko*
Ben's Mosaic
Milestone Sun Of A Beach
Elusive Carve & Yams*
New Bristol Duvet Vous*
The Manchester Bitter is pure class and the Elusive seasonal Carve & Yams is excellent but I'm going with Vocation Chop & Change. right up my taste street, in The Alfred
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
London only:
Allsopp’s - Pale Ale **½
Brew by Numbers - No:11 *½
Dark Star - APA **½
Dark Star - Green Hop **½
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Dark Star - Revelation **
ELB - Pale **
Elgood’s - Blackberry Porter **½
Five Points - Best **½
Five Points - Green Hop **¾
Front Row Brewing - Split **
Hammerton - N1 *¾
Mad Squirrel - London Porter **¾
Moor - Illumination **
Moor - Resonance **
Oakham - Citra **½
Oakham - Green Devil **¾
Pig & Porter - Blackbird **
Portobello - Stiff Lip **
Portobello - Westway Pale *
Redwillow - Feckless **¾
St. Austell - Proper Job ** ½
St. Austell - Tribute **½
Siren - Broken Dream ***¼
Siren - Memento **
Southwark Brewing - Bankside Blonde *½
Thornbridge - Jaipur **¾
Thornbridge - Lord Marples *½
Young’s - Special **
BOTW goes to Brodie’s - Bethnal Green IPA ***½ at The Old Coffee House.
Kent:
Cellar Head:Green Hop Bullion-Red Rye IPA 5.2%abv..The Rye element was not plainly described, or I may well have tried an Oatmeal Pale Ale.However,this was a dark ruby oily summer pudding of a beer,hopped with Bullion from Hukins' Hops, just up the road.My BOTW.
Next week,the village Guy Fawkes celebration, so I'm expecting dubious beer out of plastic glasses.
"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.
The return of a couple of old favourites at the Wellington in Sheffield this week: both from Neepsend brewery: Melilae, a 4.6% American hopped brown ale, a sort of brown IPA perhaps; and Piter, an imperial breakfast stout at 8% abv. On previous occasions I've had the Piter as it comes, but I've had a taster before of a raspberry liqueur version (a crazy idea that worked on some level - perhaps the raspberry flavour helps to take some of the bitterness out of the chocolate malt - the effect was not unlike a Quality Street chocolate) and a couple of halves on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day last year, when it was an almond liqueur that had been added to the cask. On Monday it was a bottle of brandy that had been added, and although I was given a taster and was tempted, I decided to just go with the Melilae.
But something told me I should go back the next day, and this time I had Melilae with a Piter chaser. On Wednesday it was a half of Piter on my way back from the Kelham Island Tavern, and on Thursday a pint of Piter was my only beer of the day.
It's not often, if at all, that I call at the same pub four days in a row, and to drink the same beer four days in a row too (counting the taster) is similarly unprecedented. If it hadn't been for the Piter, I reckon the Melilae would have been a contender for my Beer of the Week, and in other weeks it might have romped home.
But this week, it just has to be Neepsend Piter (Brandy version) 8%.
Come On You Hatters!
Theakstons Old Peculier - either six or seven pints in the Red Lion at Blakey Ridge (going off my bank transactions!). And then stayed over to sleep it off