Beer of the Week (w/e 28th July 2024)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
No pub this week: found a couple of Yorkshire Dales Coast2Coast west coast IPA cans which sufficed as worthy BOTWs. Next week, a Sheps pub is forecast, so I'm not expecting great excitement.
"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.
Surrey, Hants, Berks and London.
Cask
Ossett Silver King*
Redemption Pale Ale
Elusive Mojave*
Fyne Ales Jarl*
Electric Bear Euronly Live Once
Disruption Chaos More Chaos*
Thornbridge Kia Ora*
Vibrant Forest Entelea*
Steam Town Steam Stout
Stardust Troy*
Marble Mild*
Leather Britches Comfortably Numb
Keg
Disruption 00101019*
Disruption Attribute Constitution
Budvar Dark*
Siren Suspended In Talus
Siren Dry Bones (Project Barista 24)*
Siren Viva Patron (Project Barista 24)
Siren Mucha Mora Mocha (Project Barista 24)
Lucky Saint Unfiltered Lager
Sam Smiths Dark Mild
Vibrant Forest Crimson Forest*
Azvec Magnificent Tree Frog*
Cloudwater Fresh
Can
St Austell Proper Job*
BOTW Ossett Silver King in The Waggon & Horses.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Thornbridge - Jaipur
In Chew's Yard, Preston. A very nice place to which I shall return as now in my top five in Preston.
Just another Friday teatime session, this week.
Luddite - Mosaic.
Luddite - Milk Stout.*
Luddite - Transportation IPA.
Luddite - 1812.*
Luddite - Burning Mill.
As I've nominated the Milk Stout a couple of times before, I'll go for the 1812, a tasty traditional bitter. Taken in 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.
Stockport,Hertford and Reading.Some top quality ale.
Deeply Vale -- Rambling Man *
Blackjack -- Pail Milk Stout *
Steelfish -- King of the Mild Frontier *
Thornbridge -- DDH Jaipur *
McMullen -- Ivel (3PT)
Beavertown -- Neck Oil (keg)
Siren -- Lumina (keg)
Anarchy -- Blonde Star
Disruption -- Chaos More Chaos *
Thornbridge -- Kia Ora *
Vibrant Forest -- Entelea *
Stardust -- Troy *
The last four taken in the Nags,Reading would have won most weeks but BOTW goes to Steelfish King of the Mild Frontier described as a double dark mild,at 6.5% it hid its strength well and had that dry finish you come to expect from a mild.Dangerous and on NBSS 4.5 form in the superb Magnet.
Next week not much planned
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Nowhere memorable:
Five Points - XPA **½
Hobgoblin - Ruby **
Salcombe - Gold **½
Sambrook’s - Freestyle *¼
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
Volden - Pale **½
A BOTW draw with Allsopp’s -IPA **¾ at The Axe and Bragdy Mŵs Piws - Ochr Dywyll Y Mŵs **¾ at The Rochester Castle (JD Wetherspoon).
Despite a day around Brighton on Sat I have to select something from the periodic fest (last thurs-fri of the month, apr-oct??) at Carshalton's Hope, I tried the extraordinary 'All Night Long' from Siren (10.2% imperial stout, £5 a third) but my botw would have to be 'No Sleep til Malton' from Brass Castle - raspberry jam in the tasting notes was spot on, lovely with a hop bomb alongside for contrast.
(Hope notes: "Stout. Coffee and doughnuts have always been a perfect pairing, this has the raspberry jam plus the big coffee hit.."
All quality this week:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Deeply Vale Rambling Man*
Saltaire Hop Selecta!*
Steelfish King of the Mild Frontier*
Thornbridge DDH Jaipur*
BOTW goes to Thornbridge DDH Jaipur. A superb, juicy edition of an already excellent beer.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Marked as closed - is that since Mick's (2024) visit, or we do have an out of date status on the listing..?Originally Posted by Mobyduck
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