A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Don't usually go for American Pale Ales, but the Amagansett from Bedlam Brewery was in great form on takeaway from our village club today.
Couple of pub visits. More inside next week:
Cask:
Binghams Ostara
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Church End Fallen Angel*
Cans:
Oakham Citra T90*
Marble Lagonda*
Marble Silly Point*
Marble Cross Collar*
Northern Monk New World IPA*
Bottle:
Braybrooke Smash Maybock*
BOTW Church End Fallen Angel. A superbly fresh new barrel and, at 5%, like a pumped up Goats Milk.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Mostly good beer.
Cask
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
Disruption How To Dress For The Apocolypse*
Three Castles White Knight
Wantsum Huell Melon*
Ashover Ernest*
Industrial Stephenson Pale
Cans
Cloudwater IPA*
Siren Soundwave*
Keg
Ascot Single Hop Amarillo*
BOTW Ascot Single Hop Amarillo In The Alfred
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent
Kent-Tropical Ale 4.9%abv. What it said on the pump clip.Juicy.I wonder if, post reopening, I'll recover my love of earthy beer.
"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.
Still on the canned stuff, this week, but hoping the idiots will have calmed down enough by next weekend, to enable a gentle wander round town, on Sunday.
Northern Monk - Faith. (c)
Siren - Soundwave. (c)
Northern Monk - New World. (c)
Thornbridge - Jamestown. (c)
Kirkstall - Virtuous. (c)
Thornbridge - Bliss Point. (c)
Siren - Broken Dream. (c)
All pretty decent, but after so many pale beers the Broken Dream (Breakfast Stout) really hit the spot.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Bottles:
Duchy Organic IPA - 5.2% ABV but tasted more like 2.2%
Oakham - Citra
ELB - Pale Ale
A very modest week in pub gardens.
BrewDog -- Elvis Juice *(c)
Crouch Vale -- Brewers Gold *
Twickenham -- Grandstand Bitter
Vocation -- Tr-Hop-Ical *(c)
Cloudwater -- DDH Pale (c)
BOTW goes to Crouch Vale Brewers Gold,almost an old school beer and on fine form in The Star ,Standon.
Next week pre and post footie beers ,then boating into Nottingham to sample their finest inside.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson