A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Low abvs in Kent:
Goacher's-Real MILD ale 3.4%abv.Grand earthiness. My BOTW.
Larkin's-Traditional 3.4%abv.Blackberries. A close runner up.
"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.
Modest week in Croydon,Twickenham and Kilburn.
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA *
By the Horns -- Hopadelic *
Track -- Sanoma
Sharp's -- Doom Bar.
BOTW goes to the ever reliable Thornbridge Jaipur IPA on particularly good form in The George.
Next week mainly about Chester ,here's hoping.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Hoxton, Islington, Lower Holloway, Waterloo and local.
Hop Kettle Chinook
Electric Bear Weeerd!
Double Barrelled Whats Your 20
Double Barrelled Pando*
Iron Pier Windmill Hill*
Staggeringly Good Little Arms Big Ambitions*
Vocation Death By Cherries
Vocation Bread & Butter
Marble Manchester Bitter
Mighty Oak Oscar Wilde Mild
Five Points Gold
Adnams Ghost Ship
Hammerton N1
The Kernel Grisette Huell Melon*
Werewolf Psycobilly*
Drop Project Slice*
Anarchy Blonde Star
North Riding Brazil Nut Porter*
Elusive Lunar*
Vibrant Forest Paper Room*
Saltaire No 5*
Oakham Hangar 17
Best of the cask this week was North Riding Brazil Nut Porter but top of the pile is Drop Project Slice in The Victoria Tavern
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Yet another quiet week.
Wensleydale - Close to the Edge.
Chin Chin - Lost in the Thick of It.
Mill Valley - Yorkshire Mild.*
Mallinsons - US Premium.*
Pretty close, but the Mild just edged it. 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.
King's Cross:
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Dark Star - Orbiter **½
Five Points - XPA **½
Kent - KGB **
St Austell - Tribute **¼
Sharps - Solar Wave í ¾í´¢
Siren - Lumina *
Southwark - Routemaster Red **
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **¼
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Windsor & Eton - Eton Boatman **
BOTW goes to Twickenham - Summer Sun ** ¾ at The King Charles I.
King's Cross:
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Dark Star - Orbiter **½
Five Points - XPA **½
Kent - KGB **
St Austell - Tribute **¼
Sharps - Solar Wave
Siren - Lumina *
Southwark - Routemaster Red **
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **¼
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Windsor & Eton - Eton Boatman **
BOTW goes to Twickenham - Summer Sun **¾ at The King Charles I.
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Theakstons & Tiny Rebel - Chocolate Old Peculier at the Beer Festival in the Grey Horse, Consett
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'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan