Late on parade again due to being in Harrogate yesterday.
Late on parade again due to being in Harrogate yesterday.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Decent week for me.
Hilltop - Golden Ale.
Jolly Boys - Jolly Collier Porter.
Hop Studio - Vanilla Porter.
Bingley - Seven Dials.*
Ashover - Alton.
Roosters - Capability Brown.
Thornbridge - Cocoa Wonderland.
Abbeydale / Box - Sterile Tears.*
North Riding - Mosaic.*
Empire - Chocolate & Cherry Mild.*
Chin Chin - Dead Disco.*
Magpie - Thieving Rogue.
Fernandes - Float Your Boat.
Fernandes - Polaris.
Fernandes - Black Voodoo.
Salt - Alpaca.
The Mosaic was excellent, as usual, but as I've nominated it several times before, I shall give the honours to the Seven Dials. It's a cockle warming 6.5% Black IPA and was just the job on a dank Yorkshire afternoon. Sampled in The Black Rock, Wakefield.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Poor session in Durham...
Thornbridge Am/Pm in the Victoria was the only decent one.
Taylors - Boltmaker
Sarah Hughes - Dark Ruby Mild
Atom - Dark Matter
Brew York - Tonkoko
Brass Castle - Higge Figgy
Brass Castle - Bad Kitty
Brass Castle - Bozo Dont Serve This
Great Newsome - Jems Stout
Leeds - Midnight Bell
Taylors - Landlord
Acorn - Barnsley Bitter
York - Guzzler
Tiny Rebel - Stay Puft
Stamps - Rum Porter
Beartown - Lit
Empire - Colony 13
Bingley - Do You Know the Muffin Man
Nomadic - Pale Ale
Wishbone - Abyss
Roosters - Baby Faced Assasin
Saltaire - Amarillo
Bit of a dark week and I'm staying dark with Wishbone - Abyss
A quiet week :-
ELB Pale 4.0%
Southwark Routemaster Red 4.2%
Vale Of Glamorgan South Island 4.2%
Sambrooks APA 4.55
ELB Nightwatchman 4.5%
ELB Cowcatcher 4.8%
Nethergate Old Growler 5.0%
Southwark Eureka! 5.0%
Goff's Black Knight 5.3%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
While none of these were offensive there is little outstanding. Normally the Cowcatcher would be the one but I caught the end of the cask. I'll go for something different the Routemaster Red which is a pleasant enough old school red ale and was £2.19 in the Wanstead George. Hopefully a visit to the N Wales coast will see something better next week.
BOTW Southwark Routemaster Red
Harlow,Victoria Park and W1.Quite a bit of indifferent beer,often decent brews badly kept.
Mc Mullens -- Harvest Pale
Mc Mullens -- AK
St Austell -- Proper Job *
Titanic -- Plum Porter
Dark Star -- American Pale Ale
Wild Beer -- Belgium Pale
St Austell -- Tribute
St Austell -- Mandarin Bavaria
BOTW goes to St Austell Proper Job,sampled into two pub and thankfully a regular guest in Youngs tied houses with The Crown serving the best.
Next week lock free cruising up the Ashby Canal,hoping Market Bosworth or Hinckley can produce the goods.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Vale Of Glamorgan Speak Easy
Brunswick Triple Hop
3 Piers Old Station Porter
Cobra Lager
Rat White Rat
Cloudwater Open Door
Arbor Shangri-La
Arbor Mosaic
A short list but with some quality, but nothing came close to the Cloudwater Open Doorin sensational shape in The Antelope.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Not the worst week:
Castle Rock Elsie Mo
Grain Store 1050*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Blue Monkey Junior Ape
Wantsum Ravening Wolf*
Titanic Plum Porter*
A bit disappointed by the Junior Ape which, whilst clearly from the Ape Ale stable, didn't have a shadow of the depth or complexity of flavour of the original. Probably more a reflection of just how good Ape Ale is.
BOTW was Wantsum Ravening Wolf. A 5.9% New Zealand Pale which was in top condition in the Seven Stars, Rugby and whistled through the 3 pint test.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Kent,Lincolnshire,North Yorkshire.
Old Dairy-Green Hop Challenger Pale Ale-3.6%abv. Vibrant,floral,mint.
Marstons-Pedigree-4.5%abv-Not really my sort of beer now.Minerals and elements.
Black Sheep-Pale Ale-4%abv-Workmanlike pale ale.
Rudgate-Battle Axe-4.2%abv-Old school Best.
My BOTW-ODB's Green Hop Challeger PA.
"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.