Beer of the Week (w/e 21st April 2019)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Brunswick Ales - Triple Hop. In Derby's the Brunswick.
Change of plan,so just Merry Hill.
Tiny Rebel -- Cwtch
Marstons -- Pedigree
and BOTW Sadlers Peaky Blinders Black IPA * on fine form in The Waterfront Inn.
Next week the annual pilgrimage to the Nags Head,Reading which should provide a lot of fodder.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Very average week.
4Ts - APA.
4Ts - European Pale Ale.
Tigertops - Turn Again.
Stancill - Black Gold.
Jolly Boys - Jolly Klondike Blonde.
North Riding - Cascade.*
Empire - Moonrakers Mild.
Morley - Black Monk of Pontefract.
Morley - Yorkshire PPA.
North Riding - Mosaic.*
Great Heck - Mercy.
Great Heck - Treasure IPA.
The North Riding beers were head and shoulders above anything else, this week. I've nominated both before, but after a day's heavy gardening, in the baking sunshine, the Mosaic went down a treat.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
BOTW Estrella Galicia 1906
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Roosters 24/7 in The Red Fox
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Kent:
Brumaison-Bullion single hop. 4.5%abv:Spicy.English soft fruit.Pale. Nothing too exciting.
"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.
Velvet Raven stout from Tonbridge Brewery
A really pathetic week for me so I've included what I took along to a barbecue yesterday :-
Adnam's Fat Sprat 3.8%
Portobello Chestnut Ale 4.5%
Exmoor Gold 4.5%
Hook Norton Old Hooky 4.7%
Conwy Kodiak 5.0%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Hop Stuff Unbarred Grapefruit NEIPA (Tesco can) 6.5%
Brewdog Elvis Juice (cans) 6.5%
Five Points DDH IPA (Tesco can) 6.5%
Thornbridge Magic Rock Yelamu (Tesco can) 7.4%
London Beer Factory Dance Juice (Tesco can) 7.5%
The four £3.00 Tesco cans were fine but I have to go for a cask which is the Conwy Kodiak, an excellent American Brown that was £2.09 in the Wanstead George.
BOTW Conwy Kodiak
Not too bad by recent standards
Helmsley - Striding the Riding
Kirkstall - Three Swords
Saltaire - Triple Chocholic
Roosters - Twenty Four Seven (keg)
Theakstons - Best Bitter
Fyne Ales - Jarl
Roosters - YPA
North Riding Brewery - Sorachi Stout
Bad Seed - Reload & Rewind
Roosters - London Thunder
Black Horse - Hetton Pale Ale
Flxed Wheel - King Kelly
The North Riding Stout was gorgeous but I've had the BOTW a few times and it really works for me, Flxed Wheel - King Kelly
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