A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent: old school.
Tonbridge-Traditional 3.6%abv:reliable farmyard bitter.
Harvey's-Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv: prime, deep and fruity.The best tried in a long while.
Harvey's IPA-3.5%abv.Solid earthiness.Much tastier than I expected.Not an IPA in Craft or historical terms,but my BOTW. I hadn't drunk this since the late 1990s.
Both Harvey's beers taken at The Fountain
"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.
Bit of variety this week:
Froth Blowers Hornswoggle IPA
Beartown Literate
Byatt's Regal Blonde*
Everards Milk Stout (keg)*
Everards Tiger
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Everards Old Original*
BOTW Everards Milk Stout (keg).
As recommended by the governor at the Seven Stars with an unusual, for him, compliment for Everards brewing.
A smooth and delicious 6% stout with prominent hedgerow fruits - dark berries and a dry finish. So subdued was the gas and well judged the temperature that I'm not sure I'd have guessed that it was keg. Excellent.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Kings Cross,Rugby and Bristol.
Whiplash -- A Distance in You * (keg)
Beavertown -- Gamma Ray (keg)
Frothblowers -- Hornswoggle IPA
Byatt's -- Regal Blonde *
Everard's --- Milk Stout *(keg)
Left Handed Giant -- Pale
Settle -- Marmalade
Blue Bee -- Reet Pale
Salopian -- Midnight Express *
Twisted Ale -- Urban Ledgend * (3PT)
Titanic -- Cappuccino Stout
St Austell -- Tribute
Stroud -- Fall *
Gloucester -- Gold
Bristol Beer Factory -- Notorious
Twisted Oak -- Sheriff Fatman
Bristol Beer Factory -- Independence *
BOTW goes to Stroud Fall,an unusual organic smoked bitter,where the smoke was in the background while the hops and nutty malts were balanced.On fine form in the Barley Mow.
Next week mainly a visit to Peterborough to tick off some outliers.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Mixed week:
Two Tribes Metroland (3.8%) (c)
Thornbridge Brother Rabbit (4.0%)
XT 22* (4.2%)
Beavertown Neck Oil (4.3%) (k)
Titanic Cherry Dark* (4.4%)
XT 15 (4.5%) (b)
Animal Crow (4.6%)
XT APA (4.7%) (c)
Beartown Créme Bearlee (4.8%)
Black Isle Walrus (5.0%) (c)
BrewDog Hazy Jane (5.0%) (c)
Rodenbach Classic (5.2%) (b)
Thornbridge Jaipur (5.9%)
Arbor Faked Alaska (6.0%) (c)
Buxton Original Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream (6.0%) (c)
Vocation Life & Death (6.5%) (c)
BrewDog Layer Cake (7.0%) (c)
Only two real standouts; the new XT brew 22; a hoppy session pale, and this week's winner, taken at Swindon's excellent Hop Inn:
BOTW: Titanic Cherry Dark
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"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
A balanced week, not helped by a trip to N4:
Arbor - Destiny's Mild (c)*
DEYA - Best Foot Forward (c)
Beavertown - Gamma Ray (k)
Beavertown - Neck Oil (k)
Brewhouse - Goal Scorer (c)
Brewhouse - Tramshed (c)**
Dark Star - Hophead (c)*
Eternal - Northern Monk (c)*
Kent Brewery - Chocolate Orange Porter (c)*
Siren - Yu Lu (k)
Thornbridge - Green Mountain (k)
360º - Just Right (c)
Timothy Taylor - Landlord (c)**
Twickenham - Naked Ladies (c)**
Runners up go to:
Bristol Beer Factory - Milk Stout (c)*** at The Cock Tavern.
Redemption - Fellowship (c)*** at The Myddleton Arms.
Drank at the Old Fountain BOTW goes to Five Points - Railway Porter (c)****
A decent range of beer styles from Hampshire , Surrey and London including three milds from the endangered species list .
Bowman Swift One
Red Cat Mosaic Pale
Red Cat Art Of T*
Flower Pots Perridge Pale*
Flowerpots Cheriton Porter*
Triple fff Pressed Rat And WartHog
Black Jack Arch 34 Commission
Fullers ESB
Elusive Microball*
Elusive Patchwork Parkway*
Three Blind Mice Citra And Nelson Sauvin*
The Kernel Pale Ale Amarillo*
St Peters Cream Stout*
Verdant Headband*
Twisted Oak Wild Wood
Animal Crow
Vocation Bread And Butter*
Left Handed Giant Dark Mild*
Runners up both from The Sutton Arms are From Three Blind Mice and The Kernel but clear winner this week is Verdant Headband from the ever reliable Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
All good beers this week.
Duvel-triple hop citra
Salt/siren -North South divide
North -full fathom five
Bath - Lansdowne
Exmouth-gold
Erdington- dunkel
Botw
Salt -tram
One top notch beer this week, which sadly might not be with us much longer - Weird Beard Black Perle
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement