A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Burning Sky- Plateau 3.5%abv.Quality pale from a solid brewery. 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 flying visit to the Lake District formed the basis of this week's drinking. Lots of new beers and three new pubs, as well.
Hawkshead - Mosaic.
Hawkshead - Dry Stone Porter.*
Hawkshead - Windermere Pale.
Hawkshead - Rookie's Return.*
Eden River Brew Co - Aurum.
Barngates - Tag Lag.
Kirkby Lonsdale - Monument.
Windermere - Bad Dog.*
Windermere - Shih Tzu Faced.
Hawkshead - Red.
Hawkshead - ITI.
Lakes Brew Co - Pale.*
Tirril - Staveley IPA.
Kirkby Lonsdale - Stanley's.
Cumbrian Ales - Loweswater Gold.
A pretty high standard, in the three pubs we visited, but the Bad Dog and the LBC Pale were the two that stood out, for me. When it's a close call, I always give the benefit of the doubt to the weaker beer. I thought the Pale had great flavour for 3.5%. Sampled at the Eagle & Child Hotel, Staveley.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A quiet week:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Brick - Peckham Pale **
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Park - Poets Corner *¾
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Sambrook’s - Wandle *
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
360° - Bluebell **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾
BOTW goes to Brodie’s - Piccadilly **¾ at The Old Coffee House.
Walthamstow, Gospel Oak, Hants and Surrey.
Buxton Hatchet*
Maverick Kickflip*
Growling Gibbon Stratospheric Flow*
Vault City Toasted Coconut Lemon Drizzle Doughnut*
Beavertown Neck Oil
The Kernel Dry Stout Simcoe & Ella*
ELB Jamboree
Portobello Westway Pale
Ilkley Josua Jane*
Southwark Mayflower
Wild Card Gemini*
Trap Primordial*
Pillars Hop Lager*
Bristol Beer Factory Showdown*
Vibrant Forest Marionette*
Mallisons Melon Opus*
Nightjar Lost In Ikea*
Howling Hops Lone Star Vista*
Wantsum Golgotha*
Mostly good with a couple of average and one poor.
BOTW is The Kernel Dry Stout Simcoe & Ella.jpeg taken in one of the consistantly best pubs in London,The Southampton Arms.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Very modest week.
Carlsberg -- Lager (keg)
McMullen -- Country Bitter (3PT) and by default BOTW taken in the Jolly Fisherman.
Next week an annual pilgrimage to the Nags Head,Reading which will crank up the consunption and quality .
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Late entry - slacker:
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Barsham Golden Close IPA*
Lacons Legacy
Guinness (keg)
Adnams Ghost Ship
Beavertown Neck Oil (keg)
BOTW Brancaster Oystercatcher . Nectar.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter