Went out, had beer, forgot.
Went out, had beer, forgot.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Not a drop last week, hoping for some cask in Stockton through midweek though.
Bad Co. - West Coast Pale Ale. (c)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Chosen pubs didn't open
Titanic -- Iceberg (b)
Titanic -- Chocolate & Vanilla Stout (b)
Titanic -- White Star (b)
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA (b)
Blue Monkey -- Plum Stout (b)
Oakham -- Citra (b)
Marble -- Cross Collar (c)
Marble -- Cubbio Damage (c)
Blue Monkey --Big Blue (c)
Blue Monkey -- Guerilla Stout (b)
Titanic -- Plum Porter (b)
Titanic -- Sweet Stout (b)
Titanic -- Cappuccino Stout (b)
A decent mix of styles with BOTW going to Marble Cubbio Damage ,a 7.2% West Coast IPA but subtle and dangerous.
Next week a gentle return to pub life in Hertford and along the Thames Path in Hammershit.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
York - Guzzler
Taylors - Landlord (bottle & cask)
Rudgate - Jorvik
Rudgate - Chocolate Stout
Leffe - Bruin
Augustiner - Helles
Roosters - Yankee
Daleside - Blonde (cask)
Roosters - Baby Faced Assassin
neither cask beer was inspiring so a straight fight again between Harrogate and Munich, BOTW Roosters Yankee
Rat - White Rat. Absolute nectar after no cask beer for months.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Five Points - XPA
Adnam's - Ghost Ship
Both on cask IN A REAL PUB!
Not staying in:
Marble Lagonda IPA*
Blue Monkey Plum Stout
Titanic White Star*
Oakham Green Devil IPA*
Marble Cross Collar*
Marble Cubbio Damage*
Northern Monk Heathen IPA*
Marble Berimbolo*
Yeastie Boys Gunamatta*
Vocation Life & Death*
Oakham Bishop’s Farewell*
All bottles or cans except undoubted BOTW Oakham Bishop’s Farewell on cask. Liberally sampled and found to be good!
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Late on parade
Peroni (lager)
North Brewing Sputnik
North Brewing Huckaback
Magic Rock Saucery
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Flowerpots Goodens Gold
Three Castles Blonde
Severn Double Hopped Pale Ale
North Cotswolds Green Man IPA
Cans, bottles,keg and cask , all good , even the takeaway Peroni on keg in Winchester, before the pubs opened but BOTW should be cask this week, so it goes to the ever reliable Perridge Pale, perfect session beer and a session was had on Super Saturday in The Waggon & Horses beer garden.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields