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Thread: Beer of the Week (w/e 24 April 2011)

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    Default Beer of the Week (w/e 24 April 2011)

    Bucking Fastard: Downton's Honey Blonde
    Alesonly: Daleside Old Leg Over
    rpadam: Youngs Ordinary
    gillhalfpint: Wantsum Turbulent Priest
    Thuck Phat: Wood Farm Best
    oldboots: Brains Milkwood
    ROBCamra: Wychwood Hot Chocolate
    Oggwyn Trench: White Rose - Gecko to Nose You
    Pubsignman: Kernel Simcoe IPA
    RogerB: Daleside White Beer
    Evil Gazebo: Oakham Citra
    Millay: Brewdog Tokyo
    aleandhearty: Fenandes Green Bullet

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    BOTW for me was Downton's Honey Blonde,a refreshing pale beer served up in The Black Friar ,EC4.

    Next week should be interesting on the ale front ,with trips to Lichfield,Burton,Derby and the Erewash Valley.I'll try and make some coherent notes.

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    My Best beers of the week are Daleside Old Lubrication Followed by Daleside Old Leg Over very close contest But I will go for the Old Leg Over.
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    BOTW is Youngs Ordinary. A fine session beer, especially on a hot day, and even more so when free of charge... (see Voucher Watch thread)

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    Well a good start to the extended bank holiday season , with two beer festivals to go at(across the road from each other)plus the Stations 6 guest ales , i have been spoiled for choice Highlights so far

    Offa`s Dyke - Barley Gold
    Joules - Stumbling Monk
    White Rose - Gecko to Nose You
    Doctor Mortons - Sheep Remedy
    Phoenix - Pale Imitation
    Cambrinus - St Georges Ale
    Brown Cow - Pale Moon

    Its between the White Rose and Doctor Mortons at the mo
    Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !

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    Afraid my beer of the week is one of 46 new ales we had between us - our rules - over our 3 days at Egham United Services Club.

    Wantsum Turbulent Priest 4.4% just beat Ascot Ales Emperor Penguin Porter 7%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rpadam View Post
    even more so when free of charge... (see Voucher Watch thread)
    Yes, thanks for the heads-up on that one. I particularly enjoyed a free pint at Wimbledon's Alexandra, as they ripped me off for ~£3.60 last time I visited! They said they were out of Bombardier as it had been £2 per pint yesterday.

    Quote Originally Posted by gillhalfpint View Post
    one of 46 new ales we had between us over our 3 days at Egham United Services Club.
    That's good going Gill!

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    A bit to choose from this week having visited The Merchants http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/57333/ beer festival. Over 80 beers and 20+ ciders and perries on over the week. My own sampling included:
    Oakham Bishops Farewell and Farmers Wellies
    Art Brew Blackcurrant Stout
    Gidleys Meadow
    Goose Eye Golden Goose
    Saltaire Blackberry Cascade
    Spectrum Old Stoatwobbler
    Wood Farm Wood Farm Best

    A tough call between the Farmers Wellies, Blackberry Cascade and Wood Farm Best but BOTW was Wood Farm Best, a traditional best bitter which goes down well initially with apparently little character but then smacks you with flavour and bitterness causing it to bounce rapidly out of the glass. Great to see a new and relatively small brewery hitting such heights.

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    A very good week for beer as I wasn't working, lots of very good beers but an unexpected winner from Brains was MILKWOOD - a traditional malty bitter, slightly bitter-sweet but very drinkable.

    "To begin at the begining:
    It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black,
    the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters' - and rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
    The houses are blind as moles
    (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles)
    or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfounded town are sleeping now."

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    Oakham JHB hit the spot on a warm Thursday evening (as you'd expect), but I was highly impressed by WJ King's new offering 'Market Porter' - not quite the pint for the climate, I accept, but it's very nearly as good as Fuller's London Porter. I shall be looking forward to another pint of Market Porter once winter comes around.

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