A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Three Legs-Oatmeal Stout 4.5%abv.Bible black dry stout.Oaty liquorice goodness,in excellent condition.
Twisted Wheel-Friday Vibes 3.6%abv.Fair to middling session pale.
My BOTW-Three Legs Oatmeal Stout.
"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.
A solid drinking week, Hants, Surrey, Kent
Cask
Electric Bear I Think Therefore I Drink
Electric Bear Don't Take A Fence
Kent Hugge*
Kent Prohibition*
Kent Nectaron
Titsey Vanguard
Dark Star Hophead
Dark Star APA
New Bristol Coffee & Biscotti Stout*
Howling Hops Blanket*
Cross Bay Halo*
Downlands Tripod
Welbeck Abbey Georgiana
Welbeck Abbey Cubitts Voyage
Keg
Ten Tun Fuji 9
Greene King East Coast IPA
Howling Hops Drag Race Johnny*
Howling Hops Listen You Screwheads*
Staggeringly Good MegaloDawn*
New Bristol Wonderland
New Bristol Up Close Magic*
Quantock Whats Bruin*
Marble Chocolate*
Kasteel Bacchus Kriekenbier*
Verdant Putty*
Bottle
Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont*
So many good beers amongst those but BOTW has to go to Verdant Putty an almost perfect beer.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Always envious of Moby's lists:
Three Acres India Pale Ale
Purity Longhorn IPA*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
At least I managed more than one of each.
BOTW Purity Longhorn IPA. Always reasonable on keg but superb on cask.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Vault City - Strawberry Sundae
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
At Borough Beer House per chance?
A 'spoon-fed week:
Cairngorm - Nessie’s Monster Mash **½
Mad Squirrel - Arabica **¾
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Sambrook’s - Black Forest **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾
Windsor & Eton - Knight of the Garter ** /2
BOTW goes to [B]Titanic - Plum Porter[/B] *** at The White Swan (JD Wetherspoon)
Another quiet week.
Fernandes - Mr Brian.
Fernandes - MacGowan Black.*
Rat - Ratatonic.*
Fernandes - Railway Nut.
Fernandes - Solstice.
Rat - Reservoir Rats.
Easy winner was the Ratatonic (5%), a tasty golden IPA made with Chinook, Mosaic and Sorachi Ace. Taken in Luis Bar @ Fernandes.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
NZ (All keg unless otherwise mentioned)
Panhead --Supercharger *
Sawmill -- Indian Pale Ale
Three Sisters -- Aotearoa No. 42 IPL *
Oat Barton -- Stout
Good George -- IPA
Garage Project -- Hatsukoi *
Sawmill -- Pilsner
Lakeman -- Taupo Thunder
Tuatara -- Hazy Pale *
Yellow Hammer --Parrot Dog
Heyday Beer -- Soho Bramble Sour *
Mac's -- Gold
8 Wired Hop -- NZ IPA *
Garage Project -- Surrender to the Void
Garage Project -- Black Beer*
Garage Project -- Hapidaze
Garage Project -- Pilgrim's Blend*(Mixed Culture)
Garage Project -- Pils and Thrills *
Montheiths -- Tight Lines Pale
Montheiths -- Phoenix IPA *
Lakeman -- Stout
BOTW Panhead Supercharger in The Fainting Goat,Rotorua
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 22-02-2024 at 15:26.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson