Beer of the Week (w/e 1st December 2024)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Surrey, Hants, Balham/Battersea.
Cask
Vale VPA
Vale Gravitas
Moorhouses Blonde Witch
Goffs Jester Brew 32
Park Saw Pit*
Elusive Umbra*
Redemption Pale Ale*
Gun Project Babylon
Eagle Youngs Winter Warmer*
Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale
Fell Cuppa Joe
Mysterious 70 Watts
Electric Bear Ancient Astronaughts
Roosters Blame It On The Tetons*
Wantsum Single Hop Galaxy
Keg
Siren Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake 2024*
Siren Soundwave*
Drop Project Crush*
Two Flints Bear With Us*
Attic Union
Lost Cause Me Myself And I AUS
Disruption Maelstrom Peanut Butter*
There can only be one winner this week, Siren Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake 2024, not to be taken lightly at 12.3% but gorgeous, taken in The Ten Tun Tap House.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:
Three Legs-West Coast IPA 5.50%abv. Muted arboreal hazy fare.
Goacher's-Special House Ale (aka Chimneys Ale) 3.8% abv. In fine formerfect Tovil goodness.My BOTW,taken in The Three Chimneys
"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.
2xN1 'spoons, Woodbine and Princess Louise:
Allsopp’s - IPA **½
Burton Bridge - Santi Freeze **½
ELB - Nightwatchman **½
Dark Star - APA **½
Kent - Prohibition **¾
St Austell -Proper Job **½
Sam Smiths - OB
Twickenham - Naked Ladies **½
A joint tie with BOTW going to two Christmas-themed beers: Exmoor - Exmas **¾ at The White Swan (JD Wetherspoon) and Twickenham - Cinnamon Swirl Stout **¾ at The Barrel Vault (JD Wetherspoon)
Hertford,Hoxton and Croydon.
McMullen -- IPA
McMullen -- Bootwarmer
Marble -- This is the Sea * (3PT)
Downlands -- Oatmeal Stout *
Three Legs -- Special Brew
Five Points -- Hook Island Red *
Verdant -- Minature Cymbals *
Pheasantry -- Merry Christmas IPA * (3PT)
JW Lees -- Plum Pudding
Titanic -- Plum Porter Grand Reserve (keg)
A decent selection with BOTW going to Marble This is the Sea ,a very good best bitter on great form in The Wenlock which I'm glad to say was back to former glories under a new,young team.
Next week mainly in Lille,so who knows on the beer front,but footie at end of week.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Quiet week:
Mr Winter's Quantum Gold
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Adnams Broadside
Everards Old Original*
Oakham Bishops Farwell*
All starred are old favourites and all were on good form. BOTW Brancaster Oystercatcher as that's what I had most of.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
A fairly quiet week.
Ossett - Apollo.
Fernandes - Malt Shovel Mild.*
Fernandes - Wacca.
Chin Chin - Sabro Stout.*
Horbury - Tawny.
Five Towns - Where Are We Now?
Wilde Child - Time Warp.
Mallinsons - Harlequin.
The dark beers had it, this week. The honours go to the Sabro, a complex if slightly unusual, dry hopped stout. Taken at Luis Bar @ Fernandes.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
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