Spent a couple of hours in Shrewsbury yesterday then a visit to the Crown in Oakengates for the beer festival which is on all week and has 34 handpulls on the go and i had forgotten all about it(off work this week
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Marstons - Pedigree
Nelsons - Powder Monkey
Thwaites - Nutty Black
Joules - Blonde
Ringwood - Boondoggle
Phoenix - Monkey Town Mild
Saxon City - Iceni
BOTW Thwaites - Nutty Black
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
A close one between Hook Norton Copper (a copper coloured ale with plenty of big old school flavours) and Binghams Hop Harvest, their first foray into a light zesty ale, both at The Nags Head
Hook Norton shades it.
A great day out yesterday in Bakewell and Matlock Bath with the good wife,we tried several good beers some more than once.
Ashover - Hydro
Ashover - Golden Valley Ale
Peak Ales - Bakewell Best
Peak Ales - Chatsworth Gold
Peak Ales - Swift Nick
Bradfield - Farmers Blonde
Brunswick - White Feather
Banks's - Banks's bitter
Marstons - Pedigree
All the local beers were very drinkable and my beer of the week goes to Peak Ales Bakewell best this was a very nice amber coloured bitter that was quite bitter and very drinkable, this was tired in the Peacock in Bakewell.
Below is the best of Some of this weeks beers I had this week.
Thwaites Nutty Black
J W Lees Hopmeister
Skinners Betty Stogs
Wooden Hand Cornish Buccaneer
Darkstar Hophead
Rudgate Viking
Beer of the Week Is Skinners Betty Stogs
Don't You just hate Pubs that say
( We don't stock any Real Ales as theres Just no call for it.)
A pretty average week on the beer front. Either not very exciting, or not in particularly good nick. Tried this week:
Ossett - Green Hop.
Ossett - Blonde.
Fernandes - Ale To The Tsar.
Fernandes - Wakefield Wheat Beer.
Fernandes - Crusade.
Vale - Black Swan.
Rat - Black Rat.
Brentwood - Pacific Pale Ale.
ATTT just shades it from the Black Rat. Once again, another totally underwhelming beer from Brentwood.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I only have one brewery that I would describe as truly local, Millis - a tiny brewery that in my exprience doesn't penetrate very far outside North West Kent. Their beers are very hit and miss but my local has had the Dartford Wobbler on for the past few weeks and a fine pint it is. Although not that striong (4.3%) it seems to do what it says on the tin and I always feel wasted the next moring (although a few extra pints to celebrate our North London derby win may have contributed to this mornings effect). Good stuff.
Revisited some favourite real ale pubs last week,The Old Cross Tavern in Hertford supplied a well kept Dark Star American Pale Ale among others,while the Harp was full on Friday evening and had a good selection as always from which my BOTW was Red Squirrel London Porter. It was a hot evening and folk were quaffing the golden ales with gusto,but I found the London Porter equally thirst quenching,although it was washed down afterwards by a few Dark Star Hopheads.
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