A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Kent-Kashmir IPA 5%abv:Hazy IPA.Tropical fruit,herbal lemon,spice.In great condition.I think this is a different beer to Kent's Cashmere (abv 4.5%),that was tried a couple of years back.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.
Taking advantage of the garden and the weather to enjoy some cheap craft.
Thornbridge/North - North Bridge IPA. A supposed cross between the west and east coasts take on the IPA.
BOTW Purity Lawless Lager. Very welcome on a hot day.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Just a handful of pre-curry swifties, this week. Pub time is very limited, at the moment.
Townhouse - Megs Mild.
Mallinsons - Melon Opus.*
Wensleydale - Black Dub.
Sunbeam - Changeable.
Easy winner was the Melon Opus. 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.
Beers that made it to NBSS 3.5 or (in bold) 4 this week:
RedWillow Lil' Soul 4.5% (session black IPA) Kelham Island Tavern
Blue Bee American Five Hop Pale 4.3% (62nd iteration - the hops change every time) Kelham Island Tavern
Timothy Taylor Boltmaker 4% Adam & Eve, Wragby, Lincolnshire
Bass 4.4% Ivy, Wragby, Lincolnshire
Welbeck Abbey Red Feather 3.9% (red ale) Morning Star, Lincoln
Landlord 4.3% Bottle & Glass, Scothern, Lincolnshire
Blue Monkey BG Sips 4% Old Reindeer, Edingley, Notts
Ringwood Boon Doggle 4.2% Lion, Farnsfield, Notts
Pheasantry Ringneck Bitter 4.1% Chequers, Ranby, Notts
Acorn Barnsley Bitter 3.8% Bath Hotel, Sheffield
Neepsend Rombard ESB 5.2% Wellington, Sheffield
Tetley's Bitter 3.7% Black Rock, Wakefield
A tussle between American Five Hop, one of my favourite beers of the last couple of years; Acorn Barnsley Bitter at the Bath Hotel, my nearest regular haunt; and the superb Tetley's at the Black Rock in Wakefield. As I told the licensee, it was the best Tetley's I've had since the brewery in Leeds was abandoned. He's well aware how good it is, as he fired back "Best Tetley's in Yorkshire!" And I had three pints of it, so that has to be my beer of the week.
Come On You Hatters!
Petersham,Oval and Pimlico.
Twickenham --Naked Ladies *
Bira 91 -- IPA (keg) 3PT
Gun -- Dry Hopped Summer Best
Thornbridge -- Freeman Street*
Eight Arch -- Corbel
Kirkstall -- Special Pale *
BOTW goes to Thornbridge Freeman Street,an american hopped IPA,6% complex and not to be hurried in great nick in Cask.
Next week a return to Stone for a boat tidy up and painting prep ,so lots of Titanic possibilities.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A limited week due to being held hostage to cheap lager at first-time pubs which I'll never visit again:
Kelham island - Pale Rider **½
St. Austell - Proper Job **½
St. Austell - Tribute **
Saltaire - Titus ¼
Southwark - Bermondsey Best **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **¼
BOTW goes to Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon).
Bexleyheath and the Borough Market
Brew york - fennec
Thornbridge - freeman Street
Burton Bridge - top dog stout
Mauldons - black adder stout
Tiny rebel - peaches and cream
Two tribes - heroes
By the horns- porter
One of those weeks when any of these beers could have been botw but
Thornbridge - in.the heart of.4.9 a nice.english bitter
An Improving week.
Dark Star Hophead
Dark Star Sky Lab
Oakham Citra*
Exeter Ales Pathfinder Cheeseburger Chaser*
Exeter Ales Exile Wicked Wolf*
Wiper & True Heading Home*
Wiper & True Sundance*
Howling Hops Barley Hop*
Abyss Dirty Joe*
Salt Jute*
Villages Rafiki*
Beavertown Neck Oil
Wild Craft Wild Juicy
Mallisons Chinook XL*
Squawk/Electric Bear Aluda*
Stockport Cascade
Disruption Ghost Fiction*
Cross Bay Azacca
Maverick Drawing Pictures Of Mountain Tops*
BOTW is the nowhere near as disgusting as it sounds Exeter Ales Pathfinder Cheeseburger Chaser taken in The Andover Tap At The Lamb
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields