Beer of the Week (w/e 14th October 2012)
hondo: Broughton Merlins Ale
Aqualung: Blindman's Icarus
Real Ale Ray: Northumberland Carnivale
Mobyduck: Darkstar Greenhopped IPA
london calling: Nelson Green Horn
Oggwyn Trench: Plain Ales Inncognito Port Stout
aleandhearty: Rat Brewery Red Rat
Bucking Fastard: Townhouse Audley Gold
Spinko: Marble Pint
Wittenden: Wall's The Dark Side
Thuck Phat: Titanic Plum Porter
Pubsignman: Quadrant Oatmeal Stout
Alesonly: O'Hanlons Original Port Stout
ROBCamra: Marble Pint
Last edited by ROBCamra; 19-10-2012 at 11:44.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Broughton Ales - Merlins Ale
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
I've a few to choose from this week :-
Skinner's Cornish Knockers 4.5%
Robinson's Unicirn Bitter 4.3%
Robinson's Green Bullet Pale Ale 4.4%
Robinson's Double Hop 5.0%
Blindman's Icarus 4.5%
Brodie's Old Street Pale 5.0%
Brodie's Kentish Town Brown IPA 6.2%
Brodie's Big Mofo Stout 10.5% (on Keykeg)
The 4 contenders are the Knocker, Icarus, Old Street and Big Mofo. As I believe that this is my first experience of the Blindman brewery and as it was served in really superb condition at the Coronet in Holloway Road for a mere £1.99, it's my beer of the week. My only problem with it is defining the style of beer. It could easily be called a dark bitter or a brown ale and one beer site describes it as a red beer.
I would go for a brown ale myself.
BOTW Blindman's Icarus.
BOTW Northumberland - Carnivale
been drinking for most of the week Darkstar Greenhopped IPA ,a case of make hay while the sun shines,
also had ,
Darkstar Hophead,
Springhead Roaring Meg
Sharps Own
But the clear BOTW for the second week running is Darkstar Greenhopped IPA.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
plenty of good beers to choose from.the best of them were
london brewing -highrise
london brewing -skyline
london brewing -vista
kernal -red brick
mallinsons -castlehill premium
peerless -triple blonde
but the winner was another greenhop beer from a brewery i dont rate
nelson -green horn 4.0
cheers
They must be doing something right.Originally Posted by london calling
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Some dullish beers this weekand some very good ones
Marstons - EPA
Marstons - Burton Bitter
Banks - Mild
Milltown - High Flyer
Pictish - Warrior
Salamander - Love Bug
Six Bells - Supper
White Horse - Saracen IPA
Plain Ales - Inncognito Port Stout
Imperial - Mysterious Blonde
The Imperial was very good but BOTW is Plain Ales - Inncognito Port Stout , very black and very smooth , full of flavour
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
Another quiet-ish week, but fortunately some of those tasted were bang on form.Tried this week:
Old Mill - Blonde Bombshell.
Roosters - Yankee.
Bowman - Eldorado.
Golcar - Dark MILD.
Raw - JR Best Bitter.
Acorn - Old Moor Porter.
Ironbridge - IPA.
Rat Brewery - Red Rat.
Fernandes - Ghost of Luis.
Fernandes - Double Six.
Not a cigarette paper between the MILD, Porter and Red Rat, but I'll give it to the latter - a wonderfully aromatic red ale, dry hopped with Simcoe.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Some very fine ale in Macclesfield,Kidsgrove and Stone with BOTW going to Townhouse Audley Gold,with a fragrant nose,easy quaff and a solid bitter finish served in peak condition in The Blue Bell,Kidsgrove.
Pushing south later in the week down the T&M and Coventry Canals so still in good ale country for now.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
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