A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Hoxton.
Moor -- Nor' Hop
Five Points -- Railway Porter *
Crouch Vale -- Ten 46
Mighty Oak --Cascade IPA *
BOTW goes to Mighty Oak Cascade IPA,a magnificent 6.4% quaffable gem in NBSS 5 condition in The Wenlock Arms.BOTY so far.
Next week boating north on the Grand Union while it is still possible to travel around,some old haunts with hopefully top quality real ale.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Kent,East Sussex:
Larkins-Porter 5.2%abv:A cheering sight, and probably good physic.Dried fruit, bitter chocolate.
Long Man-American Pale Ale 4.8%abv:Bit tired,perhaps,but mellow.
Burning Sky-Arise 4.4%abv: From keg,but a delicious session pale.Wall fruit.Hazy.
Much as I relished the Arise,my BOTW, inevitably, is Larkins Porter, a beer that I thought I'd missed for the season.
"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.
A Citra beer at Lytham Craft House... Don't remember the brewery!
Manchester and Halifax this week,
Hydes - Mild (Old Indie)
Acorn - Drop Kick
Mallinsons - Is It Spring Yet?
Pictish - Brewers Gold
Nightjar - In Space No One Can Hear You Moo
Peerless - Peninsula IPA
Marstons - Tetley Cask
Holts - Bitter
Adnams - Old Ale
Staropremen - Lager
Rat - White Rat
Fernandes - Black Voodoo
Five Points - XPA
Tiny Rebel - Fubar
Redwillow - Wreckless
Turning Point - Lucid Dream
Totally Brewed - Papa Jangles
Bad Seed - Retro Style
Acorn - Black Oak
Salopian - Darwins Origin
Little Critters - Blonde Bear
Tapped - Sorsby Stout
BOTW is from my favourite brewery of the moment Turning Point - Lucid Dream
VOG New Tricks#17- Hefeweizen
Edinbrew Mid Atlantic
Edinbrew Super Stout
Tollgate Hackney Blonde
Colchester Metropolis
Keppels Golden Crow
North Yorkshire White Lady
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
A toss up between two beers, the styles not normally my thing, VOG New Tricks and North Yorkshire White Lady, the former a wheat beer and the latter billed as a cask lager, I'm going with the lager, soft on the pallet and a subtle Orangey taste. BOTW is North Yorkshire White Lady.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
New Bristol Brewery - Wonderland keg
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Just a Sunday afternoon session, this week. (Probably the last for a good while).
Rat - Ratched.
Great Heck - Nepa.
Ridgeside - Plato.
Magic Rock - Dark Arts.*
Rat - Mutant Rat.*
Elland - Amnesia.
Empire - Moonraker.
Wily Fox - Blonde Vixen.
Five Towns - Peculiar Blue.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
North Riding - Cascade.*
Stancill - Appraisal.
Parkway - Ruffled Feathers.
A two horse race this week, between the Dark Arts and the Mutant Rat. The latter, a premium strength (5%) version of White Rat, wins by a nose. Tried in the rapidly improving Henry Boons, Wakefield.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Best week for a while I suspect:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Marstons Pedigree
Pardoe's Netherton Pale Ale*
Abbeydale Deception*
Abbeydale Hopback Southern Cross
Easy winner of BOTW was Pardoe's Netherton Pale Ale. Typical black country beer with a sweetish, malty start which takes a half or so to adjust to followed by a lovely dry finish. Reminded me of Bathams Best, difficult to put down.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter