A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Bath,Weedon,Stevenage and Hertford but all low quantity drinking.
Five Points --Good Point,Well Made *
Goose Island -- IPA (bottle)
Charles Wells -- Dry Hopped Lager (keg)
Kirkstall -- Three Swords
Tring -- Bring Me Sunshine
BOTW goes to Five Points Good Point,Well Made ,a really good MILD taken in Kingsmead Street Bottle.
Next week a double dose of footie,so serious 'spoons action.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A better week than last, with some decent variety:
Anspach & Hobday - The Old Golden Bitter (c) *
Brewhouse - Triple AAA (c) **
Burning Sky - Plateau (c) *
Cloudwater - Brown Ale (c) Yawn.
Dark Star - Hophead (c) *
Durrell Arms - House Bitter? (c)
East London Brewing - Foundation (c) *
Redemption - Fellowship (c) *
Five Points - Best (c) **
Five Points - XPA (c) *
Fosters - Fosters (k)
Fyne Ales - Jarl (c) *
Hammerton - Cache (c) ½
Hardy & Hansons - Scrum Down (c) *
Marble - Stout (c) ½
Pig & Porter - All These Vibes (c)
St. Austell - Proper Job (c) *
Timothy Taylor - Landlord (c) *
Twisted Wheel Brew - Moonlight Shadow (c)
Wadworth - Horizon (c) *½
Young's - Special (c)
Runners up:
Mighty Oak - Oscar Wilde (c) **½ at The Wenlock Arms
Saltaire - Triple Choc (c) **½ at The White Horse
BOTW goes to Boxcar - Double Dark Mild (c) *** at The Old Fountain - quite sweet so I doubt I could manage another pint, but very moreish all the same, with a good complex taste and long finish; one to savour.
Bath, Surrey, West Sussex and Hants.
Hogs Back TEA
Fullers Wild River
Oakham Citra*
Abbey Bellringer
Wye Butty Bach
Marstons Bass
Parnay Nine Lives Porter
Imaginary Friends Cafe Con Leche
Buxton Future Life Preferences*
Listers Dark Mild*
Black Isle Yellowhammer
Odyssey Ghettos Of The Mind*
Team Toxic Black Custard*
Wantsum Motueka
Lakeland Blonde
Disruption My Walkabour Haze*
Disruption Cereal Thrilla*
Thornbridge Jaipur*
Hop Back Citra
Mallinsons Simcoe
The Cereal Thrilla is an exceptionally good keg Breakfast Stout and been Knocking on the door for the last two weeks but I have to go with the Jaipur as BOTW, a classic IPA and still doing the business. Both from The Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Drinking limited to Saturday only:
Tring Moongazing (4.2%)
XT 22 (4.2%)
XT 7 (4.5%)
Animal Ocelot (4.6%)
Also had a great home-brewed chocolate vanilla porter (5.4% ABV) at a mate's shed bar, that they'd cheekily named Janet Street.
BOTW: XT 22
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Some interesting beers this week, most found in the ever reliable Seven Stars.
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
XT Animal Guinea Fowl
Fownes Seven Crowns Sunburst IPA*
Lakealand IPA
Leatherbritches Bohemian Dark*
Impressed by the Seven Crowns Sunburst IPA although I'm not convinced that at 4.5% it qualifies. A decent pint nonetheless.
BOTW goes to Leatherbritches Bohemian Dark, a 5.9% rich and complex porter which didn't touch the sides.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Just a Friday tea time mini-crawl, this week:
Rat - White Rat.*
Oakham - Citra.*
Titanic - Plum Porter.
North Riding - Citra.*
Fyne Ales - Hurricane Jack.
Chin Chin - Alone in the Dark.
Five Towns - Pennine IPA.
Roosters - One Eighty.
Gun - Scaramanga.
Wensleydale - Falconer.
Not a lot in it, but because the White Rat was the first one of the day and in excellent nick, it gets the nod. Taken in Henry Boons.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.