A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Tins and more tins.
Marble -- Berimbolo * (c)
Marble -- Cross Collar * (c)
BrewDog -- Pale Ale (c)
Black Sheep -- Milk Stout *(b)
BrewDog -- Hazy Jane (c)
BrewDog -- Dead Pony Club (c)
BOTW goes to Marble Cross Collar,a very fine 5.2% West Coast Pale with a light caramel malt base balanced by classic (but un-named ) hops.Classy.
Next week having worked through a good amount of my Xmas present stash,awaiting a refill from Marble.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Takeaway Cask, cans and a bottle.
Cask
Disruption Chaos More Chaos
Disruption How To Dress For The Apocalypse
Cans
North Brew Lost Cosmonauts
Magic Rock Dark Arts
Magic Rock What Are The Odds
Vocation Life & Death
Thornbridge Jaipur
Bottle
BrewDog Elvis Juice
I'm going to stick with cask for BOTW and give it to How To Dress For The Apocalypse. A 5.5% Black IPA, a style I sometimes struggle with but this hit the spot.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Back to cans and bottles for the foreseeable :
Bottles
Oakham Citra
Oakham Green Devil IPA
Titanic Plum Porter
Cans
Oakham Green Devil T90
Marble Berimbolo
Marble Rapid Vienna IPA
Marble Uppe Halen Natten
Marble Rufus
Oakham Citra T90
Marble Extra Special Marble
Marble Lagonda
Northern Monk New World IPA
Marble Cross Collar
No stars as they were all good and I enjoyed the Rufus and Extra Special from Marble.
BOTW goes to Oakham Citra T90 followed closely by the Green Devil T90. Both the unfiltered versions so slightly cloudier and more expensive that the originals but they're softer and more akin to cask so worth the extra. The difference is slightly more marked with the Citra so it gets the nod.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Cask
XT 8 Porter (4.5%) *
Bottles
Rebellion Winter Royal (5.4%) *
Hook Norton Twelve Days (5.5%) *
Rebellion Roasted Nuts Extra (5.8%) *
Cans
BrewDog Clockwork (4.5%)
Magic Rock High Wire Grapefruit (5.5%)
Thornbridge Jaipur (5.9%)
Vocation Life & Death (6.5%)
London Beer Factory Zia (9.2%) *
The BOTW and Pubs Galore Bar threads continue to be must-reads for me as I've read about, sought out and sampled so many fantastic beers thanks to the writings of the contributors on this forum, so thank you to those who have written about this gorgeous tiramisu-flavoured pastry stout, which I was fortunate to source in one of large Tesco stores in Aylesbury, before it moved to Tier 4. I can now see what all the fuss was about :
BOTW: London Beer Factory Zia
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"