A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Not too bad:
Brewhouse - Stone Fruit Pale *
ELB - Beyond the Tower ½
Five Points- XPA **¼
Leigh on Sea - Third Amendment **½
Redemption - Hopspur **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **¼
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
BOTW goes to Timothy Taylor - 1715 Stout **¾ at The Pembury Tavern.
Kent:
Rudgate -Ruby MILD 4.4%abv.Dry,light bodied for the abv. 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.
Slaithwaite,Huddersfield,Halifax ,Marsden and Manchester.
Goose Eye -- Chinook
Empire -- Moonraker Mild
Empire -- Chockwork Orange Porter *
4T's -- Raging Bull *
Rat -- White Rat *
Marble -- Ginger
Thornbridge -- Jaipur Noir *
Brew York -- Keras *
Vocation -- Chop & Change *(3PT)
Mill Town -- Platinum Blonde
Vocation -- Pride & Joy * (>3PT)
Bradfields -- Farmers Blonde (>3PT)
Ossett -- Silver King
Tiny Rebel -- Clwb Tropicana * (keg)
Salt -- Huckaback NEIPA (keg)
Kirkstall -- Dissolution IPA *
Marble -- Easy Street *
Marble -- Atlas
Marble -- Earl Grey IPA *
Marble -- Pint
Fyne Ales -- Jarl *
Brightside -- Odin *
Thornbridge -- Wye *
Some really great pints and some serious sessions on quaffable options,so BOTW is tricky but by a nose Thornbridge Jaipur Noir. I've never been sure about black IPA's in the past but this was an excellent example on NBSS 4.5 form in The Grove.
Next week detox.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Surrey, Hants, London
Cask
Pennine Miami Jazz
Electric Bear Moving The Goalposts*
Elephant School My Milk Stout Brings All The Bulls To The Yard*
Exeter Avocet
St Austell Proper Job
Siren Lumina
Siren White Tips*
Tillingbourne A.O.N.B
New Bristol Starlite
Wantsum Coming Home
Oakham Superdelic*
Oakham JHB*
Keg
Ten Tun Temples Of Citra*
Ten Tun Temples Of Talus*
Ten Tun Transilvanian Families*
Gravity Well Cosmic Dust*
Bini Brew Under The Manhole Cover
Maverick Big Bird*
Maverick I Love Vermont*
The Kernel Export Stout Ella*
Elusive Silver Strand*
Some poor quality cask in places in London you would expect better, luckily some better stuff further south.
BOTW Siren White Tips fresh and vibrant in The Borough Beer House.
Next week, who knows?
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Late on parade:
Goose Eye Chinook
Empire Chockwork Orange Porter*
4Ts Raging Bull*
Rat For Those About To Rat*
Marble Ginger
Brew York Keras
Thornbridge Jaipur Noir*
Vocation Chop & Change*
Vocation Pride & Joy*
Vocation Life & Death Classic IPA* (keg)
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Hop Back Summer Lightening*
All starred would be worthy winners. BOTW Vocation Life & Death Classic IPA (keg). A 6.5% US IPA which was much needed and appreciated at the end of a tricky day.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter