A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Farnham, Reading , Pimlico.
Cask
Full Circle Repeater*
Downlands Lost Weekend*
Utopian British Pale Ale
Wantsum Hoppy Bunny
Elusive Hydra
Elusive Bloons*
Oakham Vista*
McMullen AK
Adnams Ghost Ship
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Bowland Buster IPA
Tiny Rebel Chocoholic
Siren The Night Market*
Siren Black Mirror*
Durham Pangle Wrangle
Keg
Electric Bear Noisette*
Phantom Anniversary*
Disruption Death By Ill Tempered Sea Bass*
Guinness
Epochal White Smoke*
Good Chemistry Free Thinker*
Dark Element Headlights*
Amity Twisting*
Siren Guess The Hop A*
Siren Guess The Hop B*
Siren Guess The Hop C*
Siren Oats On Oats On Oats On ......*
A good beer week with the exception of some boring stuff in Pimlico apart from The Cask of course, however BOTW is going to Reading this week and The Nags Head with a Siren tap takeover, Siren The Night Market was exceptionally good and a style I'm very fond of, Export India Porter.
Next week we shall see what Cambridge has to offer.
Last edited by Mobyduck; 31-03-2024 at 22:29.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:unplanned.
Goacher's-Fine Light Ale 3.7%abv.Full of earthy goodness, but lacking the marmalade oranges.
"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.
Thornbridge - Crackendale
It may have been the Jaipur had I tried that in Leeds' Bankers Cat, but it was still before noon and I had family to meet!
Soho,Letchworth,Baldock,Hertford and Leighton Buzzard.
Oakham -- Citra * (3PT)
Siren -- The Night Market *
Siren -- Broken Dream Breakfast Stout *
Old Cannon -- Gunners Daughter
Woodefordes -- Albion Stout
Sharp's -- Doom Bar
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA (keg)
Greene King -- IPA
Adnams -- Ghost Ship
Sharp's -- Doom Bar (keg)
Inbev -- Stella (keg)
Abbeydale -- Cloud Peak IPA *
Marstons -- 61 Deep *
Mad Squirrel -- Apres Ski*
Mad Squirrel -- Sumo *
Yonder -- Coconut Avalanche *
Siren -- Black Mirror *
Oakham -- Bishops Farewell *
Some very interesting dark brews but BOTW goes to Yonder Coconut Avalanche,a highly unusual sour ,sharp as you like but with soothing coconut and a weird dark crimson colour,strong too.Take on keykeg in Bottle House.
Next week PuG crawl around Cambridge and some footie,should be good for beer.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Wakefield.
Down to earth with a bump, after several sessions, last week.
Fernandes - Ale to the Tsar.*
Tigertops - Swoony.
Chin Chin - Waikana.
Fernandes - Centennial.*
Mallinsons - Amarillo.*
Chin Chin - Shifting Sands.
An old favourite takes the honours, this week. Taken, unsurprisingly, at Luis Bar @ Fernandes.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
A poor week, plodding the mean streets of Stockwell and Brixton:
Harvey’s – Sussex Beast **½
McA’s – East India Pale Ale **½
Sambrook’s – Junction **½
Timothy Taylor – Landlord **½
BOTW goes to Twickenham – Naked Ladies **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon)
Limited:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Phipps Gold Star*
Brunswick JD Juice*
Byatt's Midnight Export*
All good but BOTW was Byatt's Midnight Export. A proper, rich 6% stout with hints of coffee and chocolate and another winner from a currently very reliable brewerey.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter