A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Only With Love-Big Champion Session IPA:4.9%abv.Arboreal,citrus.A bit lacking in the malt bill to rate 4,though I did enjoy it.
Siren Craft-Titanic Turmoil: 10.5% abv.Barrel aged stout.In bottle.Sweetish,approacheable and fulfilling. 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.
Oundle and Woodford.
Nene Valley -- Manhatten Project
Nene Valley -- Call Me Bubbles (keg)
Nene Valley -- Egytian Cream Milk Stout *(keg)
Digfield -- Chiff Chaff
Phipps NBC -- IPA
Quite limited with BOTW going to Nene Valley Egyptian Cream Milk Stout ,the best beer sampled at their Tap & Kitchen.
Next week the annual pilgrimage to the Nags ,so lots of anticipation.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Only three to choose from, this week:
Abbeydale - Restoration.
Roosters - Yankee.
Skinners - Chapel Rock.
All taken in a fabulous little micro Prop'ur Baa, Ossett
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
London, Hants and Surrey.
Hop Back Summer Lightning*
Disruption Battle Royale Simcoe*
Disruption Cereal Thrilla*
Leather Britches Hairy Helmet
Malisons Mosaic
Three Sods Mon Cherie IPA
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Rat White Rat
Hackney Mysterious Spectre
ELB Hopside Down Pale*
40FT Given Lem
Hammerton Panama Creature
Hammerton/Vertigo Van Food*
Cellar Head Session Pale*
Vault City Banana Split*
Camden Pale
Azvex Cruise Liner
Raddeberger Gruppe Schofferhofer Grapefruit*
Old school BOTW this week in Hop Back Summer Lightning, in the best condition I can remember having this beer, 3pt was no problem in The Alfred as usual, however it was hard pushed by Van Food in The House Of Hammerton and also The Schofferhofer in The Ten Tun Taphouse.
coming up hopefully some Nags Head action with the Captain later this week.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A good week with a wide variety of styles, including the offer of a Saison, happily surpassing the last two weeks, with only a few clunkers and one Bloody Awful Beer, all sampled in London and Oxford:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **
Adnams - Southwold
Bedlam - Wilde *¼
Big Smoke - Solaris
Black Sheep - Best **
Brewsmith - Oatmeal Stout **½
Dark Star - American Pale Ale **½
Five Points - Best **
Five Points - Railway Porter **¾
Five Points - Pale **
Five Points - XPA **¼
Harvey's - Sussex Best **½
Hook Norton - Off The Hook **
Hook Norton - Old Hooky
Howling Hops - Swing Time
Lister's - APA **¾
Lister's - IPA *½
Oxford Brewery - Let The Dragon See The Wolf tasting of cheese at The Head of the River.
Pig & Porter - Lilac Time **
Purity - Pure UBU **¾
Ramsbury - Gold *
St. Austell - Proper Job **½
St. Austell - Tribute **½
Three Sods - BoHo **½
Wylam - Wylam Gold **
XT - 8 **¾
BOTW goes to Titanic Plum Porter **** with a rich, creamy head on stupendous form (as it should be) at https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/31671/.
Nice beers in general last week but a few cask beers could have been colder
Ealing -pocaface v2
3 hills-heidrun special hop
Brewdog - 50 cuts
Brewdog - lost in blood orange
By the horns - tropical
Burnt mill- otherworlds
Hop back - entire stout
Arbor - this time next year
London - flying the mags mild
London - 100 oyster stout
East london- pale.ale
Ossett - voodoo
Portobello- summer honey ale
North - vanishing point
Thornbridge - crackendale
Urban alchemy- beach body ready
Urban alchemy - elephants graveyard
Urban alchemy - fat labrador American pale botw in their brewery tap in Barnet.all 3 beers from this new brewer were v good
Another late entry:
Enjoyed BOTW Adnams Ease Up IPA on keg on a hot, sunny day. Gently fruity but with a moreish, dry finish. Easy to drink at 4.6% but not a real IPA.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter