Beer outside actual pubs.
Vocation Pride & Joy just shades it from Brew York Jarsa both taken in The Baum.
Beer outside actual pubs.
Vocation Pride & Joy just shades it from Brew York Jarsa both taken in The Baum.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 18-04-2021 at 21:03.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Back to the pub:
Cask:
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Cans:
Marble Earl Grey IPA*
Marble Extra Special Marble
Northern Monk Scafell*
The cask beers were all fantastic and the Bishops took a bit of a beating but BOTW has to be Brancaster Oystercatcher as it was the first cask beer in four months and half a gallon just disappeared. Fantastic.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Petersham,Braunston and Euston.
Twickenham -- Grandstand
Sharp's -- Doom Bar
Marston's -- Pedigree
Salt/Pomona Island -- Shoop * (can)
BrewDog -- Punk IPA (can)
Hammerton -- N7 * (>3PT)
Five Points -- XPA (keg)
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA * (can)
Easy winner Hammerton N7 taken in volume at The Euston Tap on a great session made simple by top quality cask ale.
Next week boating on very familiar territory,no new pubs ticks likely but lots of ale assurred.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
I have had some excellent local beers in this first week of pub gardens opening:
Tapped Mojo 3.6% brewed and drunk at (or just outside the front door of) the Sheffield Tap
Kelham Island Best Bitter 3.8% brewed next door to and drunk in the garden of the Fat Cat
Loxley Halliday Bitter 4.0% brewed just on the edge of Sheffield and drunk in the car park of the Raven Inn
and not local but still excellent, Marble Bitter 4.0% drunk in the small back yard of the Beer House on Ecclesall Road, having made the journey over the Pennines from Manchester.
Very hard to choose a favourite from those four. Marble has never been a favourite of mine, partly because of an early experience of a beer that tasted of lemon squash, so this Bitter was a bit of an eye-opener for me. It's not as bitter or as idiosyncratic as Boddingtons, which I think it is modelled on, but it was very good. However, for sheer quality and excellent condition, the Kelham Island Best is, by a nostril, my beer of the week.
Come On You Hatters!
Kent
Made one outdoor visit this week,with some trepidation, as I wasn't in the mood for faffing with apps and ordering blind, and had already passed several pubs before seeing the co-landlady of Larkins' Alehouse standing at the door. The back garden was full, but fortuitously the table on the street was available. The resulting glass of Kent Brewery-The Quiet American (abv 4.2%) was prime, and justified my decision not to take cask beer home in a plastic container during lockdown. My BOTW,though I rather enjoyed a can of Revolver Pale Ale (4%) from Good Things Brewing.
"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.
Three pubs plus stuff from the fridge
Cask
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Beartown Blubeary
Beartown Creme Bearlee
Wantsum Golgotha Stout
Oakham Inferno
Marble Manchester Bitter
Chapter Hidden Lakes
360⁰ Session India Pale Ale
Disruption A Walk Thru Eden
Keg
Lost And Grounded I Wanna Be In The Sun
Cans
Northern Monk Northern Star
Siren The Wedge
Siren Granola Coaster Cacao & Orange
Siren Futurist
I wondered if a cask beer would be able to get past some of the tin selections given my love of hop forward , and of late stronger beer but BOTW goes to a beer before tasting I wouldn't have put my money on but BOTW goes to Marble Manchester Bitter, an extremely well put together beer and extremely well kept in The Wonston Arms
Marble Manchester Bitter.jpg
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Not a huge amount of choice on my East Kent foray, but the fresh Whitstable Bay Pale Ale from Shepherd Neame suited the sunny beer gardens very well.