A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A good beer week.
Salopian Hop Twister
Salopian Shropshire Gold
Thornbridge Galaxia
Dark Star Hophead
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Ramsbury Tripple Hop
Riviera Riviera Gold
Acorn Itchycoo Dark
Stealth Covert
Magpie Cherry Raven
Prescott Summer Season
Stonehenge Danish Dynamite
Little Ox Yabba Dabba Doo
All very close in quality, my favourite was Little Ox Yabba Dabba Doo in The Alfred
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
It will have to be Thornbridge - Kipling. Had in the Gasworks Manchester. That, and Jaipur, are always my must have when the pump clip is spotted.
BOTW Wild Beer Bibble. Light, fruity and ideal for the warm weather.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Oakham - Citra.
Ashover - Coffin Lane Stout.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Not much drinking this week but this was nicest Hop Studio Porter
A quiet week.
Mc Mullens -- Rivertown Brewing Atlas Ale
Hogs Back -- TEA
Old Mill -- Liquid Gold
and BOTW St Austell Tribute on very fine form in The Devonshire Arms.
Next week end month drinking in Hertford and at the Euston Taps should produce a more exciting list.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
The hot weather continues to cause beer quality problems but not in JDWs this week :-
Hardys & Hansons Dark Mild (keg) 3.1%
Little Star Shipstones Original 3.8%
Jennings Cumberland 3.8%
Sharps Atlantic 4.0%
Fernandes Chinook 4.0%
Silhill Hop Star 4.2%
Lincoln Green Bowman 4.3%
Rooster's Yankee 4.3%
Great Heck Citra 4.5%
Fullers Fruit Loop 4.5%
Totally Brewed Crazy Like A Fox 4.5%
Blue Monkey Infinity 4.6%
Lincoln Green Tuck 4.7%
Charnwood APA 4.8%
Titanic Plum Porter 4.9%
Salopian Nebula 4.9%
Blue Monkey Little Loco 5.0%
Blue Monkey Last Mango In Paris 5.2%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Castle Rock Screech Owl 5.5%
Lincoln Green Blackshale Kibble 5.5%
Milestone Missy Sippy Jazz Ale 5.5%
Black Hole Cyborg 5.5%
Totally Brewed Captain Hopbeard 5.5%
Scribblers One Brew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 5.5%
Thornbridge Jaipur IPA 5.9%
Magpie Wanderlust Stout (keg) 6.2%
The winner is the Salopian Nebula as tried several times for £2.50 during the Nottingham Organ Grinder's Friday happy three hours. The Blue Monkey Infinity ran it close.
BOTW Salopian Nebula
No pub this week,but I enjoyed an al fresco pint of Cellar Head Single Hop-Bullion-Pale ale on the farm from whence came the Bullion. From one of those plastic bladder things, but a world away from the sarsonian gruel served at one of the 200 top pubs that I endured the weekend before.Indoors,I've enjoyed Pig and Porter Whispering Bob .
"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.
Spent some time in Weymouth.Few new beers but no problem as Wetherspoons were selling
Thornbridge -Jaipur £2.70 camra score 5