A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Surrey, Berks, Hants, Battersea & Borough.
Cask
Timothy Taylor Golden Best
Oakham JHB
Harveys Porter*
The Kernel Dry Stout Ella*
Lords Sanglier
Portobello Polari
Elusive Oberon
Brentwood Falcon Punch
Goffs Jester Brew 23 - Pan-Asian Pale
North Riding Banoffee Porter
Siren Soundwave*
Disruption Seismic Wave*
Tolgate Old Rasputin
Wantsum Yellowtail
Keg
Beavertown Neck Oil
Battersea Brewery Black Abyss
Battersea Brewery Bananas In Pyjamas
Anspach & Hobday The Smoked Brown*
Siren Angels In The Architecture
Fierce Beer Darksynth*
Beak Hum*
Two By Two Azacca Mosaic
Delirium Tremens*
Two beers are clear of the pack this week and both taken in The Rake, Anspach and Hobday The Smoked Brown beaten only by The Kernel Dry Stout Ella, fantastic on cask and BOTW.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Local and Stoke:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Blue Monkey Infinity +1*
Champion Big Session IPA
Inadequate Tickety Boo*
Guinness (nitro surge)
Titanic White Star
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
BOTW Hop Back Summer Lightening. Haven't had this for a while and I'd forgotten how good it is. In superb condition it easily passed the 3 pint test and was very difficult to keep in the glass.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Adel and Horbury.
Meanwood - Black Goddess.
Meanwood - Herald. (keg)
Luddite - 1812.
Luddite - Mosaic.*
Luddite - Milk Stout.*
Luddite - Transportation IPA.
Luddite - Blackberry Belgian.
Luddite - Citra Lite.
Three Fiends - Bad Uncle Barry.*
A fairly quiet week. BOTW is the ever-reliable Milk Stout, brewed on the premises, at The Calder Vale Hotel.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Stoke,Hertford and Charing Cross.
Bristol Beer Factory -- Party Wave
Inadequate -- Tickety Boo *
Carling -- Lager (keg)
Titanic -- White Star
Mc Mullen -- Rivertown Ivel
Mc Mullen -- Rivertown SIPA (keg)
Saltaire -- Amarillo * (>3PT)
Ilkley -- Alpha Beta
Tiny Rebel -- Cosmic
Fullers -- "Dark Star" Hophead *
BOTW goes to Saltaire Amarillo taken in volume in the Harp.It was a wonderful session ale on sparkling form.
Next week quiet ,a bit more boat moving.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
SW19 in the main:
Forest Road - Work ½
Newbarns - Schmonus **½
St. Austell - Tribute **½
Southwark - Harvard **½
Southwark- Mayflower IPA **¾
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
BOTW (at a price) goes by a whisker to Allsopp’s - IPA **¾ at The Hero
Suffolk to Norfolk:
Earl Soham-Victoria Bitter: 3.6%abv. Proper old school bitter,luscious malt,dried grass.
Thornbridge-AM:PM:4.5%abv.Tropical fruit, honey from the malt.
Barsham-Barsham Oaks: 3.6%abv.Mid brown, berries,some earthiness from the home of a leading grower of malting barley.
Barsham-Eastern Gold:4.5%abv.Substantial gold 'un.
Lacons-First Light:4.5%abv.Soft Pale Ale.Summer fruits.
Moon Gazer:Pintail:3.9%abv. Reedy,golden,gluten free.
My BOTW-Earl Soham Victoria from a brewery new for me, that's been around for a while. Taken at The Fox
"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.