Tiny Rebel - Urban IPA very good , tastes like a traditional IPA then the Hops hit you at the finish , lovely stuff
Tiny Rebel - Urban IPA very good , tastes like a traditional IPA then the Hops hit you at the finish , lovely stuff
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
Harviestoun Wild Hop IPA for the good list
'Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable' - Python
Couple more for the good list:
Sunny Republic Hop Dog (5.5%) - brewed with Kohatu and Dana hops - not very subtle but very enjoyable.
Yeovil Posh IPA (5.4%) - very moreish, another very good beer from the Yeovil brewery - shame I couldn't find any of their beers on a recent trip to Yeovil.
Best bet is Woods Wine Bar , The Green Room (a restaurant!) and The Yew Tree . Woods is the best bet out of these three IMHO.
For a proper free house experience you are best looking in the pubs in the villages around Yeovil, but the beer is hard to find unless you know where to look. For Posh IPA the Rusty Axe Stembridge which has recently reopened is stocking it, as does the White Hart, Crewkerne. which reminds me, I need to update the Rusty with an up to date review.
Last edited by Brewguru; 18-09-2012 at 07:44.
Thanks for the tips. I spent most of my time in Yeovil trying to navigate my way from the train station into town, then onwards to Huish Park and back again on local buses. This seemingly simple task ended up being a complete nightmare, so I didn't get much time to explore beyond a quick hike up the hill to the Quicksilver Mail and a couple of swift pints in the town centre. I'll make sure Woods is on my list for next season.
Having visited the Marble Arch in Manchester 3 years ago it was clear to me that Marble Lagonda IPA was the best IPA I'd ever had and indeed the best beer. A recent visit was made with some trepidation: was this paragon as good as before, had the recipe changed, had the competition caught up.
There's no doubt that the competition is much better than it was 3 years ago as the below list shows and three cheers for that. Marble Lagonda IPA though, remains as excellent as ever and is still my favourite beer. That and the fact that my labrador is named after the brewery, justifies a reclassification from Good to A & H's F*****g Brilliant I think.
A&H's F*****g Brilliant
Roosters/Odells The Accomplice (A&H)
Salopian Kashmir (TP)
Marble Lagonda IPA (TP)
The Good
Blue Monkey - Ape Ale
Brew Dog - Punk IPA
Thornbridge - Jaipur IPA
Art Brew - Monkey and Spanked Monkey
Acorn - Scorachi IPA
Bingham - Space Hoppy IPA
Tryst - Raj IPA
Moor Pacific IPA (OB)
Kirkstall Dissolution (OB)
Penzance Brewing IPA (BF)
Dark Star Green Hopped IPA (PoH)
Kernels Simcoe IPA (PoH)
Wadsworths Henrys IPA (A1)
Buxton Axe Edge Double IPA (PSM)
Summer Wine Diablo IPA (PSM)
Redemption Big Chief (PSM)
Thornbridge Seaforth IPA (RobC)
Hopdeamon Skrimshander IPA (Wit)
Old Dairy Blue Top (Wit)
Acorn Santiam IPA (O Blue)
Brains IPA (Mil)
Tring XL IPA (Mil)
Fernandes Motueka IPA (A&H)
Summer Wine Kahuna (A&H)
Ilkley Lotus IPA (TP)
Brewdog Hardcore IPA (Sp)
Stone Ruination IPA (Sp)
Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA (Sp)
Rat King Rat (Sp)
Orkney Wayfarers IPA (A1)
Marble Dobber (OB)
Oakham Green Devil IPA (O Blue)
Dancing Duck Abduction IPA (Dan B)
Fullers Benghal Lancer (TP)
Red Squirrel Redwood American IPA (BF)
St Austell Cornish IPA (TP)
Ironbridge IPA (OT)
Ridgeside Southern Cross (TP)
Off Beat Out of Step IPA (TP)
RCH Hewish IPA (MD)
Thwaites Indus IPA (MD)
The Kernel Citra IPA (Sp)
Beavertown 8 Ball Rye IPA (BF)
Whitehorse Saracen IPA (MD)
Sharps Atlantic IPA (MD)
Wantsun IPA (OT)
Clun Citadel (OT)
Tiny Rebel Urban IPA (OT)
Harviestoun Wild Hop IPA (O Blue)
Sunny Republic Hop Dog (PSM)
Yeovil Posh IPA (PSM)
The Bad
Greene King - IPA
Caledonian - Deuchars IPA
Marlow - Rebellion IPA
Brains - IPA
Wells - Eagle IPA
McMullen's IPA (BF)
Tring XL IPA (TP)
Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA (Wit)
Phipps NBC India Pale Ale (TP)
Holts IPA (A&H)
St Austell Podium IPA (TP)
GK IPA Gold (MD)
The Nostalgic
Charringtons IPA (ND)
Elland - Big Dog IPA(4.9%) is very good
Accorn - Calypso IPA (5%)not bad but nothing special
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
Two new IPAs for me and both to go on the good list
Lincoln Green Sheriffs IPA 5.5% and very drinkable,this is from a fairly new Nottingham brewery
Navigation Classic IPA 5.2% and a really refreshing drink,this is brewed a the newish Navigation brewery in Nottingham
Last edited by Al 10000; 23-09-2012 at 15:44.
Old Dairy Hop Top Double IPA (9%) - a right hop bomb, sold in 330 ml bottles (which is probably all you would want in one go...)