A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent: unplanned visit to a newly reopened pub.
Harveys-Sussex Best Bitter 4% abv.On the peppery end of the SBB spectrum. Taken at The Print House
"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.
More London, Borough and Bermondsey, Reading and local.
Salopian Oracle*
OakhamThe Hare The & Hedgehog
Oakham Citra
Marble Pint*
Pipeline Citra Deluxe*
Moonwake Dry Hopped Stout*
Delphic Misty Summit*
Bristol Beer Factory Outer Limits*
Elusive Morrisman Salted Caramel Edition*
Roosters/Elusive Assassins Trail*
Roosters Yankee*
Thornbridge Goat Void
Gipsy Hill Bandit
Southwark LPA
Harveys Dark Mild*
The Kernel Dry Stout Simcoe*
The Kernel Export Stout London 1890*
Cloudwater Cascading*
Anspach & Hobday London Black*
Pretty Decent Employee Of The Month
Barrel Project Reburried Cherry*
Engine Shed Project Ubiquitous
Red Willow Faithless 162*
Red Willow Amarillow Best Bitter
Disruption We Interupt This Programme*
Pentrych Clown College*
Double Barrelled Parka*
A hard choice but The Kernel Export Stout London 1890 was unbeatable in The Kernel Taproom.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Hobgoblin Gold in the White Horse, Aberystwyth. The pub is massively changed from uni days 20 years ago when it was a typical student place called Varsity.
This week more visits to Aberystwyth, Machynlleth, Borth and perhaps a drive out to Brecon.
A quiet ale week with little choice courtesy of Fuller's pubs in the wilds of Ealing:
Dark Star - Hophead **1/2
Kelham Island - Pale Rider **¾
Moor - Illumination **
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
BOTW goes to Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon).
Limited:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Church End Fallen Angel
Phipps Gold Star*
BOTW Phipps Gold Star. A proper, moreish, 5.2% IPA and locally brewed.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Localish this week
Odyssey- underground up
Newbarns - sparkling ale
Marble - stout
Fullers - coronation
Fullers - Griffin ipa
Green King- coronation ale
Broughton - hopo
Thornebridge - jaipur
Disruption - penguin
Botw
Exmoor - gold in the Plough and Harrow Hammersmith
Oxfordshire/Northants borders.
Sharps -- Doom Bar
Inbev -- Stella (keg)
Marston's -- Bass
Slaughterhouse -- Saddleback (3PT)
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Poor drinking options with BOTW by default going to Slaughterhouse Saddleback ,a very standard bitter and only passing the three pint test in The Wharf due to dehydration while boating and lock working on (finally) a sunny day.
Next week another quiet one saved by the footie.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson