Beer of the Week (w/e 8th October 2023)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A poor week:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
ELB - Bloom **
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Oakham - Citra **½
St Austell - Proper Job **½
St Austell - Tribute **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
No BOTW.
Kent:still no Kent Green Hop beer.
Tonbridge-Velvet Raven 5.2%abv.Delicious bible black stout.Blackcurrants,bitter coffee.
Cellar Head-Session Pale 3.8%abv. Lacklustre.
Tonbridge-Coppernob 3.8%abv. Great earthy farmyard fare.
My BOTW- Tonbridge Velvet Raven.
"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.
Long Itchington, and Croydon.
St Austell -- Proper Job
Parkway -- One for the Road
Adnams -- Ghost Ship *
Salopian -- Darwins Origin
and BOTW Oakham Green Devil IPA * on top form in the George and through the three pint test.
Next week a session in the Cask and a day trip to Skipton.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Borough/ Southwark/Waterloo and local.
Cask
Dark Star Hophead
Harveys Sussex Best*
Twisted Oak Fools Gold
Cross Bay Spectrum Cream Ale
Vibrant Forest Paper Room*
XT 8*
Mallisons Wakatu*
Wishbone Two Lapels
Black Iris Snake Eyes*
Keg
Signal Joost
Beavertown Gamma Ray*
Villages Raffiki*
Elusive Ten Burns The Deck*
Verdant Sundialer*
Drop Project Flow*
By The Horns Warped Reverb*
Vibrant Forest Kaleidoscope*
Otherworld Unknown Fire
Bullhouse Rolling Papers*
This week BOTW is Drop Project Flow, a brewery that has impressed this year taken in The Gladstone Arms , a pub that has impressed.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
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