Beer of the Week (w/e 13th October 2024)
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Surrey, Hants, SE1 and SE16.
Cask
Fyne Ales Everyone Loves UK Cascade*
Wiper & True Kaleidoscope*
Wylam Gold
New Bristol Cinder Toffee Stout*
Disruption TDH Chaos More Chaos*
Utopian Mystic Sun*
Triple fff Flagpole Citra
Verdant Fresh Hop #1 East Kent Golding
Blackjack Early-Days Northern Porter*
Electric Bear The Schooner The Better
Keg
Harbour Bounty Hunter*
The Kernel Dry Stout Citra Cascade*
The Kernel Export India Porter Amarillo Comet*
The Kernel Pale Ale Ernest*
Hacker Pschorr Kellerbier*
Siren Juicy Details*
German Kraft Leopold
White Rhino Pale Ale*
Vault City Blood Ink*
Can
Hogs Back Hog IPA
This weeks BOTW is Disruption TDH Chaos More Chaos pokey, murky 6% stone-fruit stuff, lovely in The Borough Beer House.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Richmond,Bexleyheath,St Pancras.
Surrey Hills -- Shere Drop *
Greene King -- IPA
Thornbridge x Lees -- Rosa *
Bexley -- The Big Ten
Inbev -- Stella (keg)
St Austell -- Proper Job
Fyne -- Sun Lounger
Sharps -- Doom Bar
Kent -- Green Giant *
Greene King -- London Glory
Beavertown -- Neck Oil (keg)
A mixed bunch but BOTW goes to Thornbridge x Lees Rosa ,a superb American IPA using Maris Otter malt and Citra,Comet and Simcoe hops leading to a fine deep bitter finish.Taken in the Kentish Belle.
Next week some boating down the GU.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
A good week for me.
Riverhead - Mocha Mild.*
Fernandes - Yorkshire Pint.
Fernandes - Wacca.
Chin Chin - Higher Grounds.
Fernandes - Empress of India.*
Saltaire - Aquila.*
North Riding - Toffee Porter.
Blue Bee - Triple Hop.*
Driftwood Spars - Lou's Brew.
Ossett / Leviathan - Rising.
Ossett - White Rat.
Ossett - Jet.
Fernandes - Peregrine.
Chin Chin - Take Flight.
Five Towns - Always Crashing In The Same Car.
Very close between the Empress and the Triple Hop, but the latter just takes it. Made with Citra, Mosaic and Ekuanot hops, it came on whist I was at Harry's Bar and was as fresh as a daisy. Lovely stuff.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
East London:
Allsopp’s - Pale **½
ELB - Quadrant **½
Five points - best **½
Purity - Jimbo **½
St Austell - proper job **½
Timothy Taylor - landlord **½
Tring - Side Pocket **½
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
BOTW goes to St Austell - Thunder Struck **½ at The Castle
Rutland,North Yorkshire.
Everards-Tiger 4.2%abv.old school, malt led.Reassuring.My first ever encounter with this long established East Midland brewery.
Everards- Milestone 4.3%abv.Red Ale,dry biscuity finish.
Yorkshire Dales-Askrigg Ale 4.3%abv.Amber pale ale.Oranges'n'lemons,wall fruit.
Yorkshire Dales-Butter Tubs 3.7%abv.Spicy,arboreal session pale ale.
My BOTW, Yorkshire Dales Askrigg Ale.
"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 and Durham:
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Rat White Rat
Durham Dark Angel
Vocation Doppelganger DDH IPA (keg)*
Blue Moon (keg)
Small World Thunderbridge Stout*
TT Landlord*
BOTW Small World Thunderbridge Stout. A well balanced, 5.2% stout with a delightfully dry finish.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
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