A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Swannay Brewery - Orkney IPA
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Good week for me. Wakefield (as per).
North Riding - USA IPA.*
Vocation - Chop & Change.*
Oakham - Citra.
Nailmaker - Plum Porter.*
Wensleydale - Black Dub.
Stancill - Endeavour.
Mallinsons - Rockets & Feathers.*
Wensleydale - Protagonist.
Tigertops - Slip Away.
Fernandes - Mosaic.
Marston's - Wainwright. (keg)
Thornbridge - Kipling.*
Acorn - Gorlovka.*
Harrogate Beer Week Collective - High Five.*
Some good beers, on cracking form, this week. Quite close at the top, but I'll go with an old favourite, not seen in ages. Taken in
Harry's Bar.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Colchester,Hertford and South Norwood.
Colchester -- Jack Spitty's Smuggler's Ale *
Colchester -- Bearded Lady *
Chelmsford -- West Coast IPA *
Roosters -- Easy Going Assassin
Elephant School -- My Milk Stout Brings All The Bulls to The Yard * (Prize for longest beer name )
Colchester -- Old King Coel London Porter *
Wolf -- Sly Wolf
Bristol Beer Factory -- Milk Stout *
Fuller's -- Dark Star Hophead
Fuller's --ESB
Fuller's -- London Pride * (as well kept as I can ever remember )
Northern Monk -- A Little Faith (keg)
Colchester offered some very fine ale ,so difficult BOTW choice goes to Colchester Old King Coel London Porter on NBSS 4 form in the fine surroundings of The Odd One Out.
Next week Carshalton and some footie in a warm up for Burton.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Mid Kent:
Larkins-Premium Bitter 5.5%abv. A new 'un from Larkins:A dark ruby ESB,malty with resinous hops.Good, but I don't think I'd want too many!
"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.
Not a bad week:
Titanic Plum Porter*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Spey Valley Spey Cadet
Byatts Novus Porter*
Byatts Heavenly Juice IPA*
Another 2 winners from Byatts with BOTW going to Byatts Heavenly Juice IPA. A fruity but dry 5.8% proper IPA.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Oxford plus the usual suspects
Redemption Fellowship*
Elusive Oregon Trail*
Vault City Cloudy Lemonade*
Cloudwater Happy
New Bristol Mavericks
Disruption Surfing Sunsets
Wiper & True Milk Shake*
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
White Horse (Luna) Titans
White Horse Village Idiot
Black Sheep Velo
Animal Bearded Reedling
Sam Smiths Export Stout*
Beavertown Neck Oil
Bristol Beer Factory Fresh Tracks*
Marble Stout
Howling Hops Road To Unruin*
Siren Suspended In Ella
Siren Out Like A Light*
Siren Carribean Chocolate Mole Cake*
Some really good stuff but head and shoulders above all is Siren Carribean Chocolate Mole Cake, at 8.8% one of the most complex yet so balanced beers I've ever tasted, beautiful, taken in The Ten Tun Taphouse on keg during a Siren tap takeover, I really hope there's some left when I visit again tomorrow, highly unlikely though.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Quite a good week in London:
Adnams – Ghost Ship**½
Beavertown – Rocket Man *
Dark Star – APA **½
Dark Star – Hophead **½
Dark Star – Orbiter **½
ELB – Cowcatcher **
Five Points – Best *½
Fyne Ales – Vital Spark **½
Hammerton – N7 **½
Portobello – Market Porter **½
Purity – Jimbo **½
St. Austell – Tribute **½
Sambrook’s – Junction **
Sambrook’s – Wandle *½
Southwark Brewing – Mayflower **½
Stroud Brewery – Budding **½
Thornbridge – Jaipur **½
Thornbridge – Lord Marples **½
Turning Point – Chip Hazard
Twickenham – Naked Ladies **½
But again, there's a two-way tie with BOTW going to:
Brew York – Tonkoko **¾ at The Old Fountain.
Siren – Broken Dream **¾ at The Woodbine.
Brinkburn - Quayside Blonde in Brinkburn Street Brewery
Easily passed the 3 pint test and the rest
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Had a lot of good beers in Hammersmith,Chiswick and Brentford
Botw
Verdant -I remember having one 3.8 on cask in the George 1v Chiswick