Beer of the Week (w/e 14th July 2019)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent
Kent-Session Pale Ale:3.7% abv.Ever reliable.
"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.
An odd week with a few uncharacteristic beers taken, by circumstance,not design.
Greene King IPA
Fullers London Pride
Marstons Wainwright
Marstons Pedigree
Badger Best
Laines Heroes
Dark Star Hophead
Flowerpots Perridge Pale
Long Man Sleeping Giant
Heritage X Porter
Revolutions Switch #15
Needless to say BOTW doesn't come from the top half of the list but goes to Revolutions Switch #15,nice and hoppy in The Alfred yesterday lunchtime.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
All beers were in Sheffield :-
Little Critters Raspberry Blonde 4.2%
Scruffy Dog Sit! Ra 4.3%
Abbeydalr Moonshine 4.3%
Camerons Road Crew 4.5%
Welbeck Abbey Duck Decoy 4.6%
Thornbridge Chiron 5.0%
Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.2%
Abbeydale Absolution 5.3%
Scruffy Dog Hoppity Dawg 5.3%
Brewdog Punk IPA (keg) 5.4%
Thornbridge Jaipur 5.9%
Thornbeidge Jaipur (krg) 5.9%
Neepsend Erinyes 6.0%
Fuggle Bunny 24 Carrot 6.0%
The winner is from a brewery I'd never even heard of let alone tried. It's the Scruffy Dog Hoppity Dawg which is a stronger hop bomb that was £3.60 in the excellent Rising Sun.
BORW Scruffy Dog Hoppity Dawg
Quieter week with an eastern flavour:
Barshams Norfolk Kiwi
Panther Gold
Oakham Inferno
Adnams Ghost Ship*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
The Brancaster Oystercatcher was an easy BOTW winner and once again flew threw the three pint test.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
All beers taken in the West Riding of Yorkshire (bar the last two)
Rat Rat in Black
Revolutions - Switch 15
Exile (Exmoor) - Urban Fox
Ossett - Refresher
Kirkstall - Black Band Porter
Nepture - Mermaid's Purse
Blue Bee - Reet Pale
Stancill - Barnsley Bitter
Bingley - Goldy Locks
Five Points - Railway Porter
Gt Heck - Navigator
Thornbridge - Astryd
Neepsend - Fafnir
Henry Smith - Session IPA
Lost Industry - Pale Rakau
Anthology - New England Session Pale
Beatnikz Republic - Midtown
Celtic - Brewers Gold
Bingley - Lock Keeper
Crosspool Alemakers Society - Mount Zion
Thornbridge - Jaipur
Roosters - Stars & Stripes
Harrogate - Plum Porter
Yorkshire Dales - Nappa Scar
Theakstons - Best Bitter
BOTW the outstanding Harrogate Plum Porter
One of the few I can remember from Sheffield. Abbeydale Deception.
Not very often I break 25 beers in a week, these days, but a flying visit to Leeds, plus the Sheffield trip meant beer a go-go.
Ilkley - Summer.
Kirkstall - Single Hop (Mosaic).*
Kirkstall - Three Swords.
Fell - Ghyll.
Thornbridge - Rocky Road Lucaria.
Great Heck - Voodoo Mild.
Tapped Brew Co. - Toha.
Marble - Uppe Hella Natten.
Shiny - Paradise.*
Abbeydale - Moonshine.
Roosters - Stars & Stripes.
Mallinsons - Flight Risk.
Thornbridge - Astryd.*
Bingley - Jamestown.
Neepsend - Fafnir.
Great Heck - Mosaic.
Blackjack - Dead Man's Hand.
Anthology - New England Session Pale.
Beatnikz Republic - Midtown.
Shiny - New Moon(?)
North Riding - Honey Stout.
Tigertops - Union Pacific.
Milestone - Eagle APA.
Crosspool Alemakers Society - Mount Zion.
Eagles Crag - Alter Eagle.
Cocksure - Session IPA.
The standard was pretty high, overall, but my favourite was the Mosaic based Paradise, sampled in the ever reliable Rutland Arms.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I'm not getting out and about much these days, but a pub crawl around London for a mate's birthday on Saturday saw me at least live up to my forum signature, and a BOTW at Soho's Dog & Duck.
BOTW: Hook Norton x Yeastie Boys X Ale
"Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"
Blue Monkey - Infinity IPA in Corner Post
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
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