A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Salisbury,Pimlico,Marylebone and Hertford.
Stonehenge -- Danish Dynamite IPA
Hop Back -- Summer Lightening *
Otter -- Ale
Salopian -- Sixth Mass *
Blackjack -- Four of a Kind *
Tiny Rebel -- Dutty * (3PT)
Tiny Rebel -- Pump up the Jam
Tiny Rebel -- Fubar
Three Sods -- Mon Cheri IPA
Five Points -- XPA *
Mc Mullens -- Bootwarmer
Fullers -- London Pride
Marstons -- Deep 61
Mc Mullens -- Country
Dark Star (Fullers) -- Hophead
Tring -- Citra Session *
Mighty Oak -- Wonky Donkey
There was a partial tap takeover by Tiny Rebel at the Cask which was very good,but BOTW goes to Five Points XPA on top form in the Jackalope.
Next week,besides Xmas another Craft Beer Co. session and two home games to hopefully deliver decent contenders.
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 24-12-2018 at 13:49.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Purity Bunny Hop
Hop Back Cropcircle
Hop Back Winter Lightening
Dark Star Hophead
Osset Silver King
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Navigation Santas Blotto
Bragd Y Twt Lol, Pewin Ynfytyn (Crazy Peacock)
Stockport Yuletide Blonde
BOTW is the Welsh one, (Crazy Peacock) , very nice.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Same as last week.Different pub same beer
Gypsyhill -inspecter 4.5 (a Christmas cake mild)
A small list this week :-
Reunion Opening Gambit 3.8%
Downton Kangarudolph 4.1%
XT Three 4.2%
Reunion Beardtongue 4.5%
Welton's Wencelegless 4.6%
Truman's Gunner Smith 5.2%
Salopian Kashmir 5.5%
Southwark Harvard APA 5.5%
For the third week running it's a Salopian beer the Kashmir going down a treat at £3.95 in the E17 Rose & Crown. I've already had next week's winner and it's not from Salopian!
BOTW Salopian Kashmir
Right thread this time!
Big Hand - Gold enjoyed in the Corner Post
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Kent;swiftly gained beers:
Old Dairy-Copper Top 4.1%abv. Fair Copper.
The Canterbury Ales-The Friar's IPA 4.3% Surprisingly and welcomingly hoppy.Blackcurrants and beyond.
Larkin's- Porter 5.2%. Not quite ready, a bit oily on the tongue.
My BOTW:The Friar's IPA from The Canterbury Ales,taken at Larkins' Alehouse
"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 Severn Brewing Prancers Porter. A very easy drinking, smooth porter from a new to me brewery.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
A very average week, but, not too many execrable Xmas brews around, fortunately.
Roosters - Golden State.
Small World - Thunderbridge Stout.
North Riding - Mosaic.*
Thornbridge - Rattlesnake.
Colchester - Flaming Gun.
Tigertops - Honey Bear.
Rat - White Rat.
Fernandes - Hophead Pixie.
Fernandes - Rum for Cover.
Fernandes - What the Dickens.
Fernandes - Yule Love It.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Both the Plum Porter and Mosaic were in great shape, but the latter is probably in my top five beers for the year. Just so drinkable.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
The Christmas beers were out in force.
Tring - Top Secret santa
Oakham - Below Zero
Adnams - Lighthouse
Twickenham - Fig Stout
Leighton Buzzard - Xmash
Cjiltern - Foxtrot
Chiltern - Three Hundreds Dark Old Ale
Salcombe - Christmas Tide
Animal Beewing - Jack Rabbit
Lizard Ales - Kernow Gold
Skinners - Porthleven
Bays - Jingle Ale
Wadworth - Big Baubles
BotW goes to the Fig Stout
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.