A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Against expectations,managed a few this week, mostly good.
Goffs Jester Brew 1
Dark Star Hophead
Potbelly Piggin Saint
Potbelly Beijing Black
Industrial Coal Face Stout
Raw Baby Ghost IPA
Stockport West Coast IPA
White Horse Stable Genius
The Hophead was the best I've tasted in a long while, almost certainly Partridge Green brewed, so much better than the sweet gloop brewed in Chiswick. But BOTW this week is Industrial Coal Face Stout, nothing fancy about it, just a solid 4.5% very drinkable stout.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:
Three Legs-IPA 6% abv.Apparently launched this week, a delicious juicy, murky IPA.Stewed apricots. Dangerously drinkable.My BOTW,taken at Larkins' Alehouse
"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.
Brew York - Tonkoko. In the Tank and Paddle, York.
Nottingham and Hull this week:
Lenten Lane - Black Velvet
Cotswold Spring - Godiva
Blue Monkey - BG Sips
Nottingham - Extra Pale Ale
Robinsons - Trooper Day of the Dead
Lost Industry - Pale Jester
Scribblers - Ale of Two Cities
Grasshopper - Nymph
Revolutions - Marquee
North Riding - Hazelnut Mild
Bridgehouse - G3 Blonde
North Riding - Kohatu
Scarborough - Sealord
Bad Co - Dark Necessities
Yorkshire - Dead Bod
Brew York - Tonkoko
Theakston - Best Bitter
Cathead - Hazelnut Stout
Cathead - Vanilla Stout
Wye Valley - HPA
Kirkstall - Dissolution
Atom - Synthesis
Taylors - Boltmaker
Easy win for North Riding - Hazelnut Mild in spite of Tonkoko being in the running.
Not a bad lot almost entirely in Wolverhampton :-
Holden's Black Country Mild 3.7%
Shefford (B&T) Plum Mild 3.8%
Backyard Hoard 3.9%
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.9%
AJ's Stuck In The Mud 4.3%
Vocation Heart And Soul 4.4%
Burton Bridge Love Is Ale 4.5%
Oakham Bishops Farewell 4.6%
Enville Ginger 4.6%
Crouch Vale 1046 4.8%
Bristol Beer Factory Entourage 5.0%
Bristol Beer Factory 12 Apostles 5.0%
Fixed Wheel Blackheath Stout 5.0%
Green Duck Velvet Thunder 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Elephant School Oatmeal Milk Stout 5.1%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Waen Chocolate Coconut Porter 7.0%
None of these were poor but the winner is the Vocation Heart And Soul (£3.20) in the excellent Keg & Comfort micropub which makes an ideal retreat from the footbore.
BOTW Vocation Heart And Soul
Westminster
St Austell -- Tribute
St Austell -- Proper Job
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Greene King -- Yardbird Pale
Fyne Ales -- Jarl *
Dark Star (Fullers) -- Session IPA
Shepherd Neame -- Whitstable Pale
Some shoddy ale whilst on a pub crawl but a clear winner in Fyne Ales Jarl taken in The Feathers.
Next week drifting nothwards on the Grand Union ,then some footie which should net some much better ale.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Bit late but never mind.
Oakham -green Devil ipa on cask at the Antelope Surbiton.
Truly a great beer and one of my favourites.
Another late entry:
BOTW Marble Trials Series #2 (can). A 9.7% Imperial IPA which went down a little too well.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter