Beer of the Week (w/e 12th March 2023)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Old Dairy (now contract brewed elsewhere)-Red Top 3.8%abv. A fair reinterpretation of this old favourite.
Only with Love-Halland 4.9%abv.Unassuming oatmeal stout.
My BOTW-Red Top.
"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.
Not too much variety but plenty of beer:
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
Guinness (keg)
TT Landlord
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Twickenham Naked Ladies*
The old favourites were, as ever, excellent but BOTW was Twickenham Naked Ladies. Golden, thirst quenching and hoppy giving a lovely, moreish bitter finish.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Horsham,Clapham Junction and Croydon.
Robinsons -- Dizzy Blonde
Gun -- Scaramanga Extra Pale *
Marble -- Uppe Hela Natten *
Firebird -- Paleface APA
Firebird -- Mandarina Vit *
Downlands -- Devils Dyke *
Surrey Hills -- Shere Drop *
Oakham -- Bishops Farewell
Oakham -- Citra * (3PT)
BOTW goes to Marble Uppe Hela Natten ,a great coffee porter in tip top condition in The Anchor Tap,my highlight pub of a large crawl around Horsham.
Next week looks sparse .
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
It's bloody good stuff when done well and seems to be a staple at the The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon), where it's good (this week) to excellent (last week).Originally Posted by Thuck Phat
Othwerwise:
Anams - Ghost Ship **¾
Brew by Numbers - Hazelnut Stout **½
Fullers - Wild River **½
Hobsons – Champion **½
Kent - Pale **½
Ludlow – Gold **
Oakham - Fruit Crumble **¾
Portobello - JPA **
Portobello- Star ½
Thornbridge - Jaipur **¾
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Windsor & Eton - Father Thames **½
Bottle:
Oakham - Inferno
Titanic - Plum Porter
UBU - Mad Goose
BOTW goes to Kelham Island - Pale Rider *** at the Euston Tap.
Abbeydale - Deception, in the Station Inn Hull. Nice little stop on the route from Atom to Whalebone.
Bristol Beer Factory Notorious*
Flowerpots Wildfire*
Hop Back Spring Zing*
Well Drawn Pontcanna Pale
Disruption Consume
Oakham Nelson Sauvin* (4pt)
Small Beer Mild
BOTW this week is the seldom seen Flowerpots Wildfire, on very good form in The Wonston Arms.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Sadly, no pub time, this week. Just industrial amounts of my current favourite cans, to ease the pain, during and after the Twickenham debacle.
Vocation - New Musick. (sic)
Northern Monk - Faith.
Love them both, but the Faith just edges it.
'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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