A pub is for life not just for Christmas
siren -suspended in Chinook
Gloucester -no coffee no workee
republic -modern bitter
gene pool -magnum mutation
Aylesbury -quantum
new wharf -erins pale
oakham -hause buckler
burnt mill -citra fog
oakham -green devil ipa
oalham -attilla
yeasty boys -?? ipa
brains -atlantic white
oakham -black hole porter
Botw
fourpure -shapeshifter ipa although at £6 a pint poor value compared with the oakham beers at £2.45
A fairly quiet week, I made the schoolboy error yesterday of going to Wolverhampton without checking the football so ended up having a great day in Codsall Station and the Albrighton Platform micro. It also had the plus point of virtually no walking. The faggots with chips and mushy peas in the Codsall Station were fantastic and good value at £7.50.
Fixed Wheel Through & Off 3.8%
Holden's Black Country Bitter 3.9%
Ludlow Blonde 4.0%
Mallinson Tropical Blonde 4.3%
Fixed Wheel Century Gold 4.8%
Fixed Wheel Summer Smiles 4.8%
Salopian Golden Thread 5.0%
Millstone True Grit 5.0%
Holden's Special 5.1%
Small World Thunderbridge Stout 5.2%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Fixed Wheel No Brakes IPA 5.9%
The winner is Fixed Wheel Summer Smiles. It's described as an American Wheat but is probably a hybrid as it wasn't cloudy. I'm not a big fan of wheat beers but this one had a great hoppy flavour. It was £3.30 (discounted) at the Albrighton micro. It bought a smile to my face but it was probably more an inane grin or a grimace.
BOTW Fixed Wheel Summer Smiles
A rather busy week including trips to Worcester,Reading, Surbiton, Bethnal Green and Borough Market.
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
West Berks Mr Chubbs Lunchtime Bitter
Hop Back GFB
Man In A Hat American Pale Ale
Salopian Dr Picc
Swan Green Swan
Saddlers Peaky Blinder
Prescot Super 6 No 3
Banks Sunbeam
Vibrant Forest Cambrian Root
Siren Suspended in Rainbow
Siren The Sky Was Pink
Siren Broken Dream
Two Crafty Brewers American IPA
Burning Soul Low Clarity
Church End Stout Coffin
Windsor & Eaton Champions Day Ale
BrewDog Mindgame
North Brewing Pale
Hopcraft Keep Me Away From A Naked Flame
Wild Weather Obscure 80's Reference
Mallinsons Idaho 7
Oakham Elephants In The Whirlpool
Oakham Hawse Buckler
Manchester Bewilderbeest
Wylam Hickey The Rake
Eight Arch Ancients Of Mumu
Adnams Mosaic
Adnams Two Bays
ELB Cowcatcher
Moor So Hop
Gipsy Hill Moxie
Boxcar Citra Columbus
Trumans Attaboy
Trumans Lazarus
Redcar Autumn Ale
Southwark LPA
Arrow Black Tip
Tollgate Brew 500
Almost impossible to choose but if pushed BOTW will be Wylam Hickey The Rake.
A much quieter week next week in readiness for the upcoming Manchester trip.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent
Angels and Demons-Bombay Social 3.8% A session pale/IPA that really hits the spot.Floral hops,hazelnuts.A BOTY contender, and there haven't been many of them, this year.
"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.
BOTW Beeston Brewery Magnificent Men Described on the bottle as Strong Amber Ale which at 7.2% is absolutely true. Went superbly with cheese.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
The Fens and Charing Cross.
Woodeforde's -- Wherry
Lacon's -- Legacy
Beestons -- Worth the Wait
Adnams -- Southwold Bitter
Pitchfork -- Golden Ale
Tydd Steam -- Piston Bob
Five Points -- Pale
Dark Star -- American Pale Ale
and BOTW ELB Calypso * (>3PT) on very fine form during a long session in The Harp ,a perfect quaffing pint that nearly brought on a Callapso . Glad to see the CAMRA discount still being offered in The Harp.
Next week all quiet apart from the footie.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Not a big week for me, but all of the below are new to me.
Berliner Heist (The London Beer Factory)
Mai Tai (Ossett Brewery)
Love & Hate (Vocation Brewery)
Perlenbacher Weissbier (Lidl)
Breakfast Club (Vocation Brewery)
Clockwork Tangerine (BrewDog)
Bitter Iron IPA (Hatherwood Craft Beer Company / Lidl)
Only one of the above was from a pub visit (the Mai Tai), the rest had at home as a result of various recent supermarket purchases.
For me, BOTW would be the Love & Hate by Vocation, with the Breakfast Club coming a close second, followed by the Mai Tai. The Love & Hate is a 7.2% New England IPA; I found it to be rather tropical and very enjoyable. Purchased in a 440ml can from Tesco, if anyone is interested.
Not been out much this week so a bottle for BOTW
Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Marzen.
Had the breakfast club and love and hate recently both 9/10.cheers john