Beer of the Week (w/e 4th August 2024)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:Sheps.
The forecast visit to a Sheps' pub was fine,the beer less so.(Master Brew and Whitstable Bay Pale.)
"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.
Local, Winchester and Rochester.
Cask
Oakham JHB
St Austell Proper Job
Grainstore Rutland Beast
Craft Beer Man CBM3 Kentish Pale*
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Gadds She Sells Seashells*
Shepherd Neame Whitstable Bay
Liverpool Sanctuary Soul Vacation
Big Trip Never Fight A Man With A Perm*
Grey Trees Diggers Gold
Saltaire Triple Choc*
Queen Inn Partea*
Flowerpots Goodens Gold
Keg
Ten Tun Only Fans And Horses*
Ten Tun Quality Item*
Double Barreled Lemon Drizzle*
Shepherd Neame Small Batch XPA
Rivington Better Believe*
Electric Bear Nice OneStrata*
Siren Playmaker
Beers a bit so-so this week , best kept cask beer this week was Gadds' She Sells Sea Shells Taken In The Man Of Kent.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Harlow,Petersham and Chelsea.
Mc Mullen -- Ivel
Mc Mullen -- AK
Fyne -- Jarl
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord (taken at two pubs)
Laines -- Factor 50 *
Fullers -- London Pride
Greene King -- False Nine
Youngs -- London Original
Greene King --IPA
Allsops -- Best Bitter
St Austell -- Tribute
Wye Valley -- Butty Bach
A collection of largely dull ales,some impacted by high temperatures so by default BOTW goes to Laines Factor 50 in the Fox & Hounds.
Next week boating south,with some potential for better ale.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Better than last week; couldn't really be any worse:
BBF - Fortitude *½
Dark Star - Hophead **½
Five Points - Railway Porter **½
Five Points - XPA **
Harvey’s - Sussex Best **
Howling Hops - No.1 *
Ossett/Sureshot - Magna **
St Austell - Proper Job **½
Saltaire - Best **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Vocation - Heart & Soul **½
Windsor & Eton - Conqueror **½
BOTW goes to Twickenham - Naked Ladies **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon)
Some way from my usual preferred dark beers, but Tempest Am I Amarillo? was absolutely superb on a warm day (as well as being a fairly rare beer name with a question mark)
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
Late again:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Everards New World IPA (keg)
Everards Medusa
Mad Squirrel Trident
Purity Mad Goose
Tollgate Porangeter*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Barsham Golden Close IPA*
BOTW goes to Tollgate Porangeter an acceptable 5.5% orange milk stout. New to me and my strongest of the week hence the nomination.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
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