Not a bad week:
Oakham Citra*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Church End Stout Coffin*
Gloucester Brewery Citra*
Blue Monkey The Year of the Monkey*
Blue Monkey Chimp Chim-In-Nee
All decent contenders, especially The Year of The Monkey brewed for the Chinese New Year.
BOTW Church End Stout Coffin. A classic 4.6% stout which just suited on a chilly day.
Quietish week for me, still haven't managed a decent Sunday afternoon session yet, this year.
Five Towns - HB.*
Bird Brain - Howden Bitter.
Camerons - A-Hop-Alypse Now.*
Kelham Island - Kelham ESB.
Exit 33 - Speyside Whisky Aged Stout.*
Acorn - Hallertau Blanc IPA.*
Otley - Milk Stout.*
Exit 33 - Hop Monster.*
Quite hard to choose, this week. However, the Speyside edges it. It's a big hitting stout (7%), aged for 10 months in Speyside whisky casks. Very good indeed.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Any of these three would be a worthy winner
squawk -raspberry mango ipa
alphabet-raspberry vanilla pale ale
and this one was BOTW
the superbly named
Stewarts-Cauld Reekie 6.2
Roosters Fruity Pale - a trial brew from Roosters (not under the Outlaw label usually used for trials).
An excellent fruity IPA at 5.3%, everyone who tasted it would like it to become a regular.
Bowland - Hen Harrier
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Brass Castle Bad Kitty. A superb 5.5% Vanilla Porter. Tried several times in The Baum.
Tastes its strength, but still goes down easily, good job it was a Saturday.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas