Beer of the Week (w/e 3rd December 2023)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Housebound.
Vocation - Life & Death. Can.
Kent,East Sussex.Mainly dark for a gloomy week.
Wantsum-Black Pig 4.8%abv.Baltic Porter.Dark, dry:dried fruit.
Iron Pier-Dark MILD 3%abv.Gentle,toasty. Much flavour for the ABV.
Harvey's- Sussex xxxx Old Ale 4.3% abv. Autumnal hedgerow classic.
Harvey's-Armada 4.3%abv.Grown up Harvey's.Bitter Orange.Yum.
My BOTW-Harvey's Sussex xxxx Old Ale, taken at The Rose & Crown
"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.
Some variety helped by a thoroughly enjoyable visit to the Stars:
Castle Rock Time Traveller
Broadtown Line of Sight IPA*
Broadtown Black Llama*
Byatts Colonel Cocoa
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Parkway Brewing Bronx Cheer
Adnams Broadside
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Roman Way Autumnus
No surprise in a chilly week that BOTW goes to Broadtown Black LLama a 4.8% Baltic Porter with all the good stuff - chocolate, coffee and liquorice. A new brewery to me and this one drew me in to the 3 pint test which was successfully negotiated.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Our annual pre-Christmas wander round Skipton provided the beer, this week. Always a great atmosphere.
Wishbone - Tiller Pin.*
Saltaire - Triple Choc & Cinder Toffee.
Goose Eye - Bitter.
North Riding - Superdelic.*
Lamb - Bitter.
Settle - Jericho Blonde.
North - Vanishing Point.
Reedley Hallows - NZ Pale.
Lamb Pale.
Craven - BAP.
Tiller Pin is always a cracking pint in the Boathouse bar, but it was just edged by the Superdelic in The Beer Engine. (Apparently, Superdelic is a NZ hop. I'd never heard of it before).
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Cambridge and Hertford
Broadtown -- Daisy Belle *
Rat -- Gentleman Rat *
Mauldon -- Sea Explorer
Milton -- Nike
Fat Cat -- Tom Cat
Colchester -- Brazilian Coffee Vanilla Porter *
Adnams -- Ghost Ship
Fat Cat -- Marmalade *
Calverley's -- Fruitti Tuitti Sour (keg)
Orkney -- White Shores *
Cobra -- Lager (keg)
Theakstons -- Old Peculier
New River -- Twin Spring (3PT)
New River -- Blind Poet
BOTW goes to Colchester Brazilian Coffee Vanilla Porter ,appropriate in cold weather and on fine form in The Elm Tree,a friendly little boozer.
Next week boating into London and footie X2 ,so hopeful of something interesting.
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 04-12-2023 at 12:30.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
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