A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent (Cranbrook again):
McCanns (sub brand of Angels and Demons)-The Troubadour 4.5%abv. 21st Century Best Bitter. Skilfull use of hops mitigates the malt sweetness.Full bodied.A new beer for me from a respected local brewery. I'll forgive 'em their woeful online shopping experience.
"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.
Plenty of pub visits so limiting the list to cask and keg this week:
Cask:
Vocation Bread & Butter*
Neepsend Jotun*
Fernandes Octohop
North Riding Harry's Cascade*
Darkland Jera
Windswept Wolf
Keg:
Vault City Sloe Gin Sour*
Redwillow Contactless*
Brew York The Dream Child
A wide variety and some good beers with BOTW going to Neepsend Jotun. A Sheffield brewery which is new to me and this was a refreshing 6% pale with plenty of hops sliding down nicely on a warm evening.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Doncaster,Wakefield and Hertford.
BrewDog -- Dead Pony Club (c)
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA * (c)
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *(b)
Vocation -- Bread & Butter
Neepsend -- Jotun *
Vault City -- Sloe Gin Sour* (keg)
BrewYork -- Rubarbara Streisand *(keg)
Shiny -- Afterglow
BrewYork -- The Dream Child (rocky roads icecream pastry stout) 14% (keg)
Vocation -- Life & Death * (c)
Vibrant Forest -- Precipice of Light (c)
Fernandes -- Octohop
Fernandes -- Malt Shovel MILD *
North Riding -- Harry's Cascade *
Darkland -- Jera
Windswept -- Wolf
Crouch Vale -- Amarillo *
New River -- Twin Spring
Tring -- Mansion MILD *
The Dream Child was strong and rich and I could taste all the flavours in the description and several more but BOTW goes to Vault City Sloe Gin Sour in the Draughtsman's Alehouse. Maybe a pint at 8% was a little rash,but the sourness wasn't extreme and it did slip down.There was some weaving later in the evening.
Next week trying to keep calm before the week's booze cruise across the Pennines,which promises some first class ale .
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 21-06-2021 at 14:22.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Surrey & Hampshire
Cask
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Timothy Taylor Landlord*
Red Cat Mosaic Pale
Fallen Acorn Expedition IPA*
Hop Back Cropcircle*
Heritage Charrington IPA
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout*
Isle Of Purbeck Equinox
Hop Monster Child Of Jago
Ascot Anastasias Stout*
Big Smoke Music Room*
Keg
Disruption Bye Bye Cherry Pie
Elusive/Vibrant Forest Anomalous Materials*
Lost & Grounded I Wanna Go To The Sun*
BOTW Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Just a combination of the usual suspects, mostly.
Thornbridge - Jaipur. (c)
Vocation - Divide & Conquer. (c)
Ossett - Silver King. (b)
Kirkstall - Dissolution IPA. (b)
BrewDog - Hazy Jane. (c)
Thornbridge - Green Mountain.
Been a while since I've had any Dissolution, so that made a nice change.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A trip to Manchester, where four out of the five pubs visited were disappointing for one reason or another. The exception was the Hare & Hounds on Shudehill, where the Holts Bitter was drinking very well. What a superb beer, and an excellent pub too.
Come On You Hatters!