Beer of the Week (w/e 6th January 2019)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Harveys-Sussex Best Bitter 4%abv. Taken in two houses,ranging from OK to fruity.
Larkins-Traditional 3.4%abv.A bit on the cold side.
Bedlam-Benchmark 4%abv.New style old school Best Bitter.Farmyard, hedge fruit. My BOTW.
"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.
Purity Bunny Hop
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Black Hole Cosmic
Ciren Porter
Wantsum Black Pig
BOTW goes to the Flowerpots beer in a light drinking week.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
A short and not especially well formed list:
Moongazer Amber Ale
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Brancaster Brewdolph
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Moongazer Hiberno*
Oakham Bishops Farewell
BOTW Brancaster Oystercatcher. I always forget quite how good this is until around halfway through the second. Nips at TT Landlord's heels as a quality session ale.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
A good start to the year which has given me 10 new beers towards my 2019 target of 500
Enefeld - Speculation
Enefeld - EB
Osset - Nervous Turkey
Truman's - Swift
Windsor & Eton - Silent Knight of the Garter
Truman's - Bow Bells
Twickenham - Naked Ladies
Pope's Yard - Frogmore Stout
Leighton Buzzard - Irish Oil
Kelchner - Small Batch #3
Dorset Berwing Co - Origin
Chiltern - Chiltern Pale Ale
Watneys - Irony
Dartmore - Dartmore Best
Oxford Craft Beer Co - Triploid
BotW is from Kelchner, a micro brewery in Ampthill near Milton Keynes.
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.
Good week for me, almost certainly a reaction to having no pub time during the Xmas hols.
Tarn 51 - Altofts Blonde.
Tarn 51 - Rocking Robin.*
Tarn 51 - Jol.*
Stancill - Not Dark Yet.
Small World - Twin Falls.
North Riding - Citra.*
Half Moon - Dark Masquerade.
Melwood - Derby Stout.
Empire - Strikes Back.
Stancill - Blizzard.
Stancill - Driving Home.
Titanic - Plum Porter.*
Bad Seed - On the Juice.*
Salt - Mockado.
Rat - Rat Trap.
Wilde Child - Chimney Blockage.
Kirkstall - Solitude.
North Riding - US Session Pale.*
Fernandes - Kiwi Session.
Abbeydale - Salvation.*
The Citra, US Session Pale and Plum Porter were particularly good, but as they've all been nominated before, I'm plumping for the Jol, a 7% impy stout. Sampled at The Robin Hood, Altofts, where the Tarn 51 microbrewery is also based.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
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