Beer of the Week (w/e 26th March 2023)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Nice.....
Hogs Back TEA
Church End Brewers Truth*
Glasshouse Morning Process*
Disruption Alright Treacle*
Disruption Law Of The Mind*
Langham Session IPA
Hop Kettle Element*
Handsome Top Knot*
Northern Whisper Yammerhouse*
New Bristol The Joy Of Sesh
New Bristol Starlight*
Elusive Oregon Trail*
Elusive Overdrive Lap 29*
The Kernel Dry Stout Simcoe*
Rudgate South Pacific Ale
Rudgate York Chocolate Stout*
VOG Maveric
Wander Beyond Narwhale*
Going with a beer I've not had before, Handsome Top Knot beautifuly balanced and supremely kept in The Wonston Arms.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
I really need to get back out and on the road a lot more, but I did find Hawkshead Five Hop in the wimbledon spoons, the day before their festival started, superb!
Kent (again..)
Three Legs-India Black Ale:4.3%abv. Black coffee, arboreal hops.Pleasantly astringent dry finish.A Black IPA or an Old Ale? 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.
Another decent week, due to more strategic drinking:
Adnams - Oyster Stout **½
Birmingham Brewing - Pale Brummie **½
Brewhouse - Best *½
Brewhouse - IPA **
Hammerton - N1 **½
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Sambrook’s - Powerhouse **½
Siren - Broken Dream **
Siren - Liquid Mistress **½
Southwark - LPA **½
Southwark - Routemaster Red **½
Vocation & Friends with Vault City - Banana Cookie-Dough Cheesecake Stout **
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Titanic - Plum Porter ***
Twickenham - Spring Ale **½
Adnams - Southwold **½
By a whisker, BOTW goes to the very hard to find Hammerton - Penton *** at The Scottish Stores.
Glasgow and Edinburgh.Three days solid drinking,mostly quality ale.
Fyne -- Jarl *
Fyne -- Hurrican Jack *
Drygate -- Gladeye IPA (keg)
Stewart -- Spring Ale *
Loch Lomond -- Silkie Stout *
Stewart -- Pentland IPA
Swannay -- Orkney IPA
Loch Lomond --West Highland Way
Rat -- Cheating Rat *
Thornbridge -- Sequoia *
Stewart -- Citra Blonde
Clearwater -- Cashmere
Isle of Skye -- Tarasgeir *
Osset -- Yorkshire Blonde
Cromarty -- Happy Chappy
Salopian -- Beat-Ific *
Orkney -- Island Life
Loch Lomond -- Parumpalumplum * (keg)
Innis & Gun -- Lemon Sour (keg)
North Brewing -- Sputnik *
Stewart -- Jack Back
Loch Leven -- Outlaw King *
Some interesting brews with Isle of Skye Tarasgeir very peaty like their whisky ,but BOTW goes to Loch Lomond Silkie Stout in great nick in the Pot Still.
Next week end month sessions in Ware and Holborn plus some footie could be decent on the ale front.
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 28-03-2023 at 19:28.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Tried a few Spoons fest beers in Wimbledon and was surprised they were all good
Roosters - blind Jack
Theakston- double cross ipa
Cairngorm - white lady
Orkney - cliff edge
Moorhouse - totemic
Then 3 pints of
Oakham - green devil ipa in Surbiton Spoons
Botw.northern monk - raspberry porter in the express brentford
Late entry:
Stockport Stock Porter
Nethergate Growling Dog Tropical IPA*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Woodfordes Nelson's
Barsham Golden Close IPA*
Easy winner: BOTW Nethergate Growling Dog Tropical IPA. A ridiculously drinkable, 7.5%, fruity - pineapple and mango, but bitter IPA.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
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