Beer of the Week (w/e 19th March 2023)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Three Legs-Pale #3:3.7%abv.Flavoursome pale ale.Citrus, with hedge fruits to the finish. 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.
A better week
Flowerpots Goodens Gold*
Flowerpots Peridge Pale*
Timothy Taylors Landlord
Fullers London Pride
Disruption Never Knew You Where Here* (cask version)
Outhouse Joker
Kent Southern Cross*
Marble Thasos*
Play Choco Fudge*
Brew By Numbers Hazelnut Stout*
Mallisons Citra*
VOG South Island
Only With Love Halland
Rudgate South Pacific Ale
Elusive Oregon Trail*
Cloudwater Concrete Jungle*
Front Row Wot No Cheyz*
The Oregon Trail was excellent but will go with a new beer for me this week , less potent but equally excellent, full bodied and flavoursome for a 3.5% beer, Marble Thasos, taken in the Ten Tun Taphouse.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Harlow,Ham and the West End.
Mc Mullen -- IPA
Mc Mullen -- AK Original Mild
Twickenham -- Naked Ladies
Sam Smiths -- Old Brewery Bitter
Stewart -- Backing Blue
Dark Star -- Pacific Dawn IPA *
St Austell -- Tribute
Portobello -- Star
The only really memorable pint ,and hence BOTW is Dark Star Pacific Dawn IPA in solid nick in the charming Red Lion.
Next week three days in Scotland reprising pubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh.Hoping for decent ale and some interesting venues.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Firmly Midlands:
Millstone True Grit*
Byatt's Novus (dry hopped porter)*
Wily Fox Crafty Fox
Milestone Hammerhead*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
The Hammerhead, a 5.6% ruby stout, was probably the best I've had from this brewery and the Novus, as is usual for Byatt's now, was very good.
BOTW Millstone True Grit. An favourite rarely seen this far south. A full flavoured, 5%, citrussy pale.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
A decent week, mainly around Kings +:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Beerblefish - Pan Galactic Pale Ale **½
Five Points - Pale **½
Kelham Island - Pale Rider **¾
Portobello - Market Porter *¾
Redemption - Urban Dusk **¾
Southwark - Bermondsey Best **½
Tring - Going Loco **½
Twickenham - American Nut Brown **
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Twickenham - Red Sky **¾
Twickenham - Wolf of the Woods **½
VOG - Maverick **¼
Windsor and Eton - Father Thames **½
By a whisker, BOTW goes to a new beer for me, Southwark - Pilgrim **¾ at The King Charles I.
Camden,Kentish Town and other random London destinations
Bristol bf - simplicity
Howling hops -blankets
Darkstar -Pacific dawn ipa
Howling hops -we buy teeth
Moor - resonance
Redwillow - session porter
Howling hops -moody esb
Utopian -bow
Great beyond - West coast pale
Double barrelled - relays stout
Siren - undercurrent
3 locks - porter
A mention must.go to Howling hops who,s 3 beers tonight were top class and have now become my fav London brewer but botw week goes to a new comer
3 locks - west coast.ipa 6.0 drank at the brewery tap.
Bit late this week.
Tigertops - Half Sessions.*
Mallinsons - US Blonde.
Wilde Child - Futures Past.
Jolly Boys - Supa Citra.
Fernandes - Ale to the Tsar.
Sunbeam - Black Forest Gateau.*
Tigertops - White Dwarf Pale.*
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Rat - Anth-rats.
Fernandes - Firebrand.
Fernandes - Nelson IPA.
BOTW took me by surprise, this week. I tried it out of a ticker's curiosity and was expecting something sickly sweet, but it actually had quite a dry finish. Probably couldn't manage more than a pint, but it was certainly different. Sampled in The Polka Hop.
'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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Last edited by Tris39; 27-03-2023 at 18:32.
Originally Posted by Tris39
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
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