Beer of the Week (w/e 31st December 2023)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Cambridgeshire,Kent:
Adnams-Ghost Ship 4.5%abv. Seems much sweeter than the beer I enjoyed a few years back.Confirmed by bottled version tried today.
Greene King-IPA 3.4%abv. Seldom tried by this scribe,but an acceptable drink.
Three Legs-ESB 5.5%abv.Dark bronze.Dried and summer fruit,spice.Yes, a bit like Christmas Cake.A fitting end to the pub year. 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 quiet week furnished by a pair of 'spoons:
Sambrook’s - Junction **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Twickenham - Winter Warmer **½
...then...
BOTW goes to Dark Star - Revelation **¾ at The Wenlock Arms.
A week off work so kept myself busy within a 15 mile radius of home spanning three Counties, five pubs and a Ruby.
Cask
Oakham Citra*
Roosters Yankee*
Animal Hop Kitty*
Neon Raptor Scrooge
Pentrich Tinsel Town
Steam Town Steam Engine*
Steam Town Ralph Dutton
Slaughterhouse Revenge Of The Pod People*
Dark Revolution So.La*
Salopian Darwins Origin*
Utopian Stout
Keg
Ten Tun Business Meeting*
Ten Tun Red Rust*
Brew York Fairytale Of Brew York*
Indie Rabble The Mob Has Arrived*
Elusive Ravenwood*
Elusive Mince Pie Barley Wine*
New Bristol/Elusive Pastel De Nata Stout*
Vibrant Forest Farmhouse*
Disruption Death By Steamroller*
Anspach & Hobday Dry Hopped Wheat Beer*
Dark Revolution Holy Stout*
Burning Sky Quench*
Bottle
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen*
Bangala (Lager)
Many excellent beers across the styles and formats
Top of the pile is Elusive Ravenwood A sumptuous 6.8% Export India Stout with loads of dark chocolate and coffee flavours with an orange citrus twist , taken in
The Borough Beer House.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Ware,St Pancras and Croydon.
Marston's -- Wainwright
Southwark -- Borough Market Brown
Adnams -- Ghost Ship (sampled at two pubs)
Twickenham -- Naked Ladies * (>3PT)
Fullers -- Dark Star Hophead
Fullers -- ESB
Northern Monk/Nord/Mack -- 10th Anniversary * (keg)
BOTW goes to Twickenham Naked Ladies taken in quantity in the Barrel Vaults ,a great quaffable ale.
Next week boat shuttling around Hipster Central.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
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