Chorlton cum Hardy was a totally separate small town until Manchester swamped it.
No-one in Chorlton thinks they live in Manchester.
There's a JDW in Chorlton The Sedge Lynn (JD Wetherspoon). Pretty good it is too.
Chorlton cum Hardy was a totally separate small town until Manchester swamped it.
No-one in Chorlton thinks they live in Manchester.
There's a JDW in Chorlton The Sedge Lynn (JD Wetherspoon). Pretty good it is too.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 22-06-2015 at 09:46.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Bit late on parade this week, owing to a long weekend in London. Most of this week's drinking was done there and rather disappointing it was too. Several beers were very dreary and some in not very good condition. However, did manage to pick up a couple of new breweries in Whippet and Cromarty.
Whippet - House Dogge.*
Sonnet 43 - Bourbon Milk Stout.
Magic Rock - Rapture.*
Roosters - Buckeye.
Sharps - Coaster.
Youngs - Bitter, Special.
Cromarty - Hit the Lip, Happy Chappy.
Roosters - Birdman.
Portobello - Star.
Upham - Punter.
Dark Star - Hophead.
Easy winner was the Rapture.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
My elder daughter has started to get into beer and she texted me a couple of weeks ago, raving about this stuff, when she was in the Cask Pub & Kitchen. It was also on in Stormbird, Camberwell, when we visited on Saturday evening, so she was happy as Larry. I wish I'd had it instead of the indifferent Hophead I'd ordered. Unfortunately, we only had time for one!
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'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I have found indifferent Hophead on occasion, more so in the last year( as demand has increased maybe pushed through the system a bit to fast?)
However I do normally get to drink it every week so the chances of a below par pint are increased.It is generally good though.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
On Saturday, it was a little too cold, which didn't help things, but the characteristic hop flavour seemed rather subdued, generally, something I've noticed before. Moby's point about increased demand may well apply, as the quality of Rudgate Ruby Mild was all over the place, for a while, after it won Champion Beer of Britain.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Does this throw any light on it? I know they sometimes do single hop versions of HH.The pumpclip was blue as I recall, which I thought different, though I hadn't drunk HH for many months upto last weekend. The beer wasn't as extreme as I remember it,with some sort of antipodean fruitiness. More than pleasant, though.
"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.
Not sure when your original quote was from but it sounds like you had Hophead Vic Secret which was this years Hophead special from January, although the pump clip was purple. Although it was more than drinkable, It was my least favorite of their specials, the Hophead Galaxy and Hophead Simcoe and Ahtanum from previous years were far superior in my view.
Last edited by Mobyduck; 24-06-2015 at 17:30.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields