Beer of the Week (w/e 19th February 2023)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Canterbury Ales-The Pardoner's Ale:4.1%abv. Sweetish citrus lead pale ale.
Harvey's-Sussex Best Bitter:4%abv.Very ordinary.
Three Acre-Hazy Pale Ale 4.6%abv.On the tropical spectrum.From a new to me brewery in East Sussex.
Nothing outstanding this week, but my BOTW is Hazy Pale Ale from Three Acres.
"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.
Surrey/Hants
Brixton Reliance
Triple fff Pressed Rat & Warthog*
Oakham Nelson Sauvin*
Mallisons Nelson Sauvin*
Thornbridge AM:PM*
Settle Old Smithy Porter*
Wantsum 1381
Elusive Gyroscope*
Double Barrelled Gloria*
A tight decision but Oakham Nelson Sauvin edges it from Thornbridge AM:PM, taken in The Waggon & Horses
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Three old favourites:
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Haven't had BOTW Brancaster Oystercatcher for a while and it was absolute nectar. Three pint test: no problem.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Southam and Harlow.
Wye Valley -- Butty Bach *
Mc Mullens -- IPA
Mc Mullens -- AK
Thin pickings with BOTW going to Wye Valley Butty Bach in very giood condition in the Bowling Green.
Next week end month sessions in Hertford and Waterloo plus footie action ,so hoping for a wider list.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A surprisingly good week in London, achieved through precision drinking:
Block - Oatmeal Stout **½
Five Points - Best **½
Fullers - London Pride ½
Howling Hops - Moody **¾
Oakham - JHB **
Purity - Jimbo **¾
Redemption - Urban Dusk **¾
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Siren - Lumberjack **½
Small Beer - Steam *½
Southwark - Harvard **¾
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - American Nut Brown **
Nothing to choose between four excellent halves, so a four-way split this week, with BsOTW going to:
Anspach & Hobday - Londorado *** at The Kings Arms.
Oakham - Woodston *** at The Wenlock Arms.
Titanic - Plum Porter *** at The Carlton Tavern
Twickenham - Naked Ladies *** at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon)
Sunday lunchtime beers in Thame:
Bristol Beer Factory Fortitude (4.0%)
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout (4.5%)
Fuller's Wild River (4.5%)
Animal (XT) Moonrat (4.6%)
Only one winner this week; one that I described thusly: "an initial roastiness shape-shifts into a lactose-y sweetness which dials down the ABV hit, then there's a subtle bitterness on the way down." Lovely stuff indeed. Taken in the excellent Cross Keys.
BOTW: Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Fairly bog standard crawl around Farsley, west Yorkshire on Saturday.
Stone IPA (two-thirds, keg) was probably the best of an adequate bunch. In the Amity Brewing brewtap.
Another decent week for me.
Ossett - White Rat.*
Ossett - Voodoo.
Portobello - London Porter.
Chin Chin - Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Ossett - Zappa.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Chin Chin - Giddy Stratospheres.
Riverhead - Leggers Light.
Fernandes - May The Force Be With You.
Ossett - Butterley.
Rat - Lab Rat.
Fernandes - Nelson IPA.*
Name of the week must go to May The Force Be With You! A beer brewed for the annual Rhubarb Festival and highlighting the forced variant the area is famous for. Shame the beer wasn't anything special. BOTW goes to an old favourite. Still one of the best milds out there, when it's on form. Sampled 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.
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