Beer of the Week (w/e 20th November 2022)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Kent:
Long Man-Wild Man 5.2%.Farmyard English IPA,hedge fruit and a long bitter finish,from a farmer brewer in East Sussex.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.
Hop Kettle Duet # 13 Summit & Simcoe*
Vibrant Forest Face Everything
Howling Hops Top Buzzer*
The Kernel Dry Stout Azacca*
Floweropts Perridge Pale
Triple fff Lady Eleanor
Thornbridge Astryd*
Quantock Wills Neck
Play Brew Marshmallow And Peanut Ice Cream Stout*
Wellbeck Abbey Porter Oak
Elusive Step Into The Light
Milton Minerva*
Ben's Mean Old Bastard*
All good stuff on the whole with last weeks Play Brew effort good enough to do the double but for the sake of change an equally good Howling Hops Top Buzzer is BOTW, sampled midweek, on cask in The Nags Head.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Slightly better week:
Everards Old Original*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Brunswick Grun with Envy*
Byatts All Day Extra Stout*
All were good and any could have taken the title but BOTW was Brunswick Grun with Envy. My first green hopped beer of the autumn with all the piney, resinous bitterness you'd hope for. Slipped through the three pint test with ease.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Edinburgh.
Wily Fox --Crafty Fox
Spey Valley -- Spey's Cadet
Cromarty -- White out *
Loch Lomond -- Silkie Stout *
Fyne -- Jarl * (sampled many time in different pubs)
Fyne -- Castle Black *
Tiny Rebel -- Dark Cherry Battenberg * (keg)
Swannay -- Duke IPA
Loch Leven -- King Slayer *
Stewart -- Kilted Kiwi
Harviestoun -- Broken Dial
Spey Valley -- David's Not So Bitter *
Hanging Bat/Simple Things -- Special Belge
Thornbridge -- Market Porter
Greene King -- Edinburgh Rock
Stewarts -- Radical Road Reverse *
Oakham -- Citra
Orkney -- Red MacGregor
Swannay -- Scapa Special *
Inveralmond -- Lia Fail
Stewarts -- 18 Tropical IPA Birthday Beer
There was some great ale quality and I sampled widely from Scottish brewers,by a very narrow head BOTW goes to Loch Leven King Slayer perfectly conditioned in Kay's Bar. A 5.2% dark amber,malt driven but beautifully balanced by Target and Goldings ,it slipped down a treat on a cold morning.
Next week sessions in Hertford and around Kings Cross.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
London:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Black Iris - Rise & Shine **
Brodie’s - Bethnal Green **½
By the horns - Blue Bird *½
Ealing brewing -TW8 **½
Five points - Best **½
Five Points - Green Hop Bullion **½
Five Points - SBR IPA **¾
Fullers - Red Fox *
London Brewing - Beer Street
Mighty Oak - Saxon Strong **¾
Southwark Brewing - Routemaster Red **¾
Thornbridge - Ena **¾ (unsurprisingly a milk stout)
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Titanic - Plum Porter ***
Twickenham - London Porter **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾
BOTW goes to White horse - Trojan *** at The Fox.
Bank Top - Flat Cap at Ye Olde Man & Scythe, Bolton.
Quite apt for a 40th birthday pint in the land of Fred Dibnah!
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