A pub is for life not just for Christmas
This week:
Adnams Ghost Ship
Titanic Plum Porter*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Phipps Gold Star*
BOTW Phipps Gold Star which, unwisely at 5%, whistled through the 3 pint test. I'm yet to find a better beer brewed in Northamptonshire.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Vocation - Life and Death (can). So good I've ordered myself another 48.
A trip to Leeds on Friday, followed by Stockton Calling on Saturday.
Kent:
Three Acre IPA 5%abv.Resinous hops, cane fruit.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.
Wakefield.
Best week I've had in a long time. I even managed a Sunday afternoon wander, which I've not been able to do for ages.
Ossett - Melon.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Fernandes - Quantum.*
Tigertops - White Tiger.
Fernandes - Jockin'.
Fernandes - Spaced Out.*
Craven - CPA.
Small World - Twin Falls.
Little Critters - White Wolf.
Abbeydale - Daily Bread.
Mallinsons - Lupulin Trio.*
Acorn - White Oak.
Chin Chin - Kandel.
Nailmaker - Wapentake.
Rat - Black Forest Rateaux.
Fernandes - Mr Brian.*
Very little between the Quantum, Mr Brian and the Lupulin Trio, with the Mallinsons just shading it. Made with Ekuanot, Calypso and Nelson Sauvin hops. Taken at Harry's Bar.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.