A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Hampstead.
Forest Road -- Sesh
Five Points -- XPA * (sampled at two pubs)
Gorgeous -- Geek Hunter
Fuller's -- ESB
Twickenham -- Naked Ladies
Fuller's -- London Pride
BOTW goes to Five Points XPA on NBSS 4 form in The Old White Bear
Next week slogging up the Grand Union towards Berko.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Wimbledon Quartermaine at South Wimbledon's Trafalgar, now under Oli's excellent stewardship, but not open til 16:00 mon-thurs (noon Fri-Sun)
Easy drinking juicy 5.8%
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Very quiet week for variety so it's a can that wins.
BOTW Marble Cubbio Damage (can). An excellent, 7.2%, West Coast IPA which is far too easy to glug.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Wakefield.
Chin Chin - Harlequin.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.
Chin Chin - Last Bastion.
Small World - Thunderbridge Stout.*
Nailmaker - Yorkshire Bitter.
Fernandes - Nightingale.
Riverhead - Higher Orbit.*
A good solid group, but the Higher Orbit (5.5%) made with Galaxy and Idaho 7 hops was easily my favourite. Taken in Luis Bar @ Fernandes.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A ropey week discovering the hostelries of south-west London (a task not to be repeated), with much Neck Oil drunk to avoid the deluge of Young's ales in their virtual monopoly in this locality:
Nethergate - White Stout **½
Orkney - Boulder Beach **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
BOTW goes to Titanic - Chocolate & Vanilla Stout **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon)
Farnham and Southampton
Cask
Blue Monkey Cinder Toffee*
Otherworld Medusa*
Stonehenge Sign Of Spring
Brew York Make It Eldorado*
Liverpool Brewing Sanctuary The Dark North*
Elusive Sawbuck*
Mallisons Kiwi Classic*
Full Circle Hoop
Electric Bear Mocha The Week
Keg
Rivington Never Known Fog Like It*
Vibrant Forest Thousandth*
Otherworld Cerberus*
Dark Revolution Velveteen*
Wiper & True Lemondrop Hill*
New Bristol Dreamin*
Elusive Coconut Road*
Pollys The Hop Studio Idaho 7*
Amity Super Dank*
A week of full on quality and some good micropub action down south, tough decision but I'm going with Rivington Never Known Fog Like It Piney Citrus Heaven as I commented on Untapped, Taken in Bottle & Stoat.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields