A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Minimalistic list after being laid up most of the week with some serious lurgey.
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
Salopian Hop Twister
Surrey Hills Ranmore*
Animal Asian Elephant
Bristol Beer Factory Notorious*
BOTW is BBF Notorious, perfect session beer for hot weather.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:
Angels and Demons (again.): Bombay Social 3.8%abv. A cracking beer at any time, especially so on a day of ennervating heat. My BOTW.
"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.
Quiet week in Richmond and Maida Vale.
Erdinger -- Weissbier (keg)
and BOTW Siren -- Lumina in NBSS 4 condition in the Carlton Tavern and passed the three pint test at least twice during a long session before some weaving home.
Next week navigating across The Wash with a pilot and hoping that doesn't impact on the Winchester crawl due to the tide timings.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Just a handful of pre-curry swifties, this week. Disappointingly, no beer really stood out. All a bit average, a bit 'meh'.
Blue Bee - American Five Hop.
Titanic - Plum Porter.
Mallinsons - Above the Clouds.
Tigertops - Mai Bock.
Sunbeam - Sun Beamer.
Small World - Barncliffe Bitter.
Will go with the Bock, as at 6.3% it had, at least, some oomph from the alcohol.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
King's Cross, Hackney and Islington:
Dark Star - Hophead **
ELB - Pale Ale **½
Five Points - Best *
Five Points - Railway Porter **¾
Marlow/Rebellion - IPA
Marlow/Rebellion - Overthrow *
Oakham - JHB **½
Purity - Pure Gold **
Redemption - Pale **½
St. Austell - Proper Job **
St. Peter's - Best **
Three Sods - Maelstrom **
Timothy Taylor - Landlord
Track Brewing - Sonoma
Tring - Side Pocket for a Toad **
BOTW goes to Bad Seed - Painted Sanctuary *** at The Snooty Fox.
Big Hand - Bastion
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Late entry:
BOTW Barshams Close Call IPA. Slightly sweet to me but still a decent 5% IPA and the best of the week.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter