Beer of the Week (w/e 11th February 2024)

[aleandhearty]

[Wittenden]

Kent:

Only With Love-Waldo APA 4.7%abv.Hazy,tropical pale.My BOTW.

[Tris39]

Nothing special:

Adnams - Broadside **½
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
ELB - Quadrant **½
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Fuller’s - London Pride ½
Gun - Extra Pale ½
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Southwark - Dr Rudi **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½

BOTW goes to Mad Squirrel - Arabica **½ at The Metropolitan Bar (JD Wetherspoon)

[Mobyduck]

Cask
Disruption Demokracy*
By The Horns Lambeth Walk*
Five Points XPA
Five Points Green Hop Cascade*
Queer Lay Down My Bones*
Pomona Island Polzhuber*
Neptune Abyss*
Mad Squirrel Pomelo
Nightjar Lost In Ikea*
Vibrant Forest Paper Room*
Brew York Viking DNA*


Keg
Birra Moretti
Full Circle Liquid Balance*
Pretty Decent I Could Get Better At T*scos*
Mad Squirrel Pin Drop*
New Bristol Fruits Of The Forest
New Bristol Big Cinder Toffee Stout*
Maverick Cadence
The Kernel Pale Ale Citra El Dorado Cashmere*
Brew York Juice Forsyth
Howling Hops Mini Chuck*
Kasteel Baccus Framboise*

Several contenders but my beer of the week is Pomona Island Polzhuber, a lovely porter with lingering intense chocolate with a little spiciness at the end. Taken (more than once) in The Southampton Arms.

[Thuck Phat]

Thin week:

Tollgate Red Star IPA
Vale Brewery Black Beauty Porter*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*

The Red Star IPA was disappointing - 4.2% and the last in the barrel so it was replaced, FOC, with BOTW Vale Brewery Black Beauty Porter. An easy drinking, chocolatey 4.4% porter from a generally very reliable brewery.

[Bucking Fastard]

NZ. All keg unless mentioned

Panhead -- Sandman Hazy Pale *
Montheiths -- Wayfarers Pilsner *
Cassels -- Hand Pumped Pale Ale (cask conditioned )
Whakatipu -- Exotic Coconut Sour*
Searchlight -- Lessons in Lunacy Pastry Stout *
Whakaitipu -- Hillside Pilsner
Searchlight -- Boysenberry and Cherry Sour *
Two Thumbs -- Red Rye IPA
Land of the Long White Cloud -- Brew Moon
Cassels -- Nitro Milk Stout
Duncan's -- Waiporpoa Lemonade
Rhyme x Reason -- Brainfade Cold IPA (can)
Heyday Beers -- Freedom of the Seas (can)
8 Wired Hop -- Maximus American Wheat 9can)
Wanaka -- Black Peak Coffee Stout (can)
Emerson -- Pilsner
Panhead -- Supercharger *

BOTW goes to Seachlight Boysenberry and Cherry Stout in The Beech Tree,Queenstown.