A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kept it local this week
Cask
Purity Gold
Oakham JHB*
Saltaire Cascade
Elephant School My Milk Stout Brings All The Bulls To The Yard*
Downlands Secret Cyclist
Elusive Serana*
Wantsum Green Hop Fuggles*
Vibrant Forest Castana*
Wilde Child Shamrocks And Shenanigans*
Keg
Yonder Pink Lemonade
Moor Stout
Hammerton Crunch*
Burnt Mill Lights On The Shore
Disruption Lost Art Of The Handshake 2*
Vault City Lemon Iced Tea*
BOTW is Elephant School My Milk Stout Brings All The Bulls To The Yard . Super smooth Stout in The Alfred.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent: a vain search for Kent Green Hop beer.
McCann's-Bombay Social 3.8%abv. Cask from the source.
Goacher's-Fine Light Ale 3.7%.Peppery wholesomness.
Goacher's-Best Dark Ale (AKA Original) 4.1%abv.Forty years of earthy goodness.Nostalgia in a glass. 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.
Very quiet week with just Oakham Bishops Farewell* on cask.
So, to maintain variety, BOTW goes to Marble Ancodia. A canned, 4.5% session IPA which surpassed expectations.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Just the one beer had this week.
Theakstons Olde Peculier.
Several in the Lion on Blakey Ridge before a huge steak&ale pie stopped me in my tracks.
Crete,Hertford and Carshalton.
Mythos -- Lager (keg)
Alpha -- Lager (keg)
Fuller's -- London Pride
Surrey Hills -- Shere Drop
Moor -- Resonance
Marble -- Manchester Bitter * (3PT)
Drop Project -- Choppy *
The Mancherster Bitter proved to be a great session ale but BOTW goes to Drop Project Choppy ,a smooth Irish stout on NBSS 4.5 form in The Hope,a fine pub with a big mix of customers and ages where everyone was really hitting the ale,great to see a proper boozer in all it's pomp.
Next week boating in Warwickshire.and some footie.
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Bow, Hackney and King's Cross:
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
Five Points - Gold *1/2
Five Points - XPA **
Fyne Ales - Avalanche *¾
Gun - Best **
Hobsons - Bitter**
Kent - Kent Golding Bitter *½
Marble - Ginger ¼
Mighty Oak - King **
Purity - Mad Goose **½
Southwark - Ariana **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
A rather dull week with some poorly conditioned beers, so no BOTW.