'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Kent:
Only With Love-Waldo APA 4.7%abv.Hazy,tropical pale.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.
Nothing special:
Adnams - Broadside **½
Adnams - Ghost Ship **½
ELB - Quadrant **½
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Fuller’s - London Pride ½
Gun - Extra Pale ½
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Southwark - Dr Rudi **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
BOTW goes to Mad Squirrel - Arabica **½ at The Metropolitan Bar (JD Wetherspoon)
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Cask
Disruption Demokracy*
By The Horns Lambeth Walk*
Five Points XPA
Five Points Green Hop Cascade*
Queer Lay Down My Bones*
Pomona Island Polzhuber*
Neptune Abyss*
Mad Squirrel Pomelo
Nightjar Lost In Ikea*
Vibrant Forest Paper Room*
Brew York Viking DNA*
Keg
Birra Moretti
Full Circle Liquid Balance*
Pretty Decent I Could Get Better At T*scos*
Mad Squirrel Pin Drop*
New Bristol Fruits Of The Forest
New Bristol Big Cinder Toffee Stout*
Maverick Cadence
The Kernel Pale Ale Citra El Dorado Cashmere*
Brew York Juice Forsyth
Howling Hops Mini Chuck*
Kasteel Baccus Framboise*
Several contenders but my beer of the week is Pomona Island Polzhuber, a lovely porter with lingering intense chocolate with a little spiciness at the end. Taken (more than once) in The Southampton Arms.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Thin week:
Tollgate Red Star IPA
Vale Brewery Black Beauty Porter*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
The Red Star IPA was disappointing - 4.2% and the last in the barrel so it was replaced, FOC, with BOTW Vale Brewery Black Beauty Porter. An easy drinking, chocolatey 4.4% porter from a generally very reliable brewery.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
NZ. All keg unless mentioned
Panhead -- Sandman Hazy Pale *
Montheiths -- Wayfarers Pilsner *
Cassels -- Hand Pumped Pale Ale (cask conditioned )
Whakatipu -- Exotic Coconut Sour*
Searchlight -- Lessons in Lunacy Pastry Stout *
Whakaitipu -- Hillside Pilsner
Searchlight -- Boysenberry and Cherry Sour *
Two Thumbs -- Red Rye IPA
Land of the Long White Cloud -- Brew Moon
Cassels -- Nitro Milk Stout
Duncan's -- Waiporpoa Lemonade
Rhyme x Reason -- Brainfade Cold IPA (can)
Heyday Beers -- Freedom of the Seas (can)
8 Wired Hop -- Maximus American Wheat 9can)
Wanaka -- Black Peak Coffee Stout (can)
Emerson -- Pilsner
Panhead -- Supercharger *
BOTW goes to Seachlight Boysenberry and Cherry Stout in The Beech Tree,Queenstown.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson