Beer of the Week (w/e 5th January 2025)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent: quality start to the account.
Larkin's-Porter 5.2%abv. A rare sighting of this hedgerow icon.Bible black, dry,raspberries.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.
Play Brew - Raspberry Jaffa Cake Stout 5.8%, absolutely sublime in Victorian Craft Beer Cafe
'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan
Winchester, Salisbury and local.
Cask
Timothy Taylor Landlord
Flowerpots Perridge Pale*
Ilkley Lotus
Hop Back Citra
Hop Back Summer Lightning*
Hop Back Crop Circle*
Windsor & Eton White Riot
Stonehenge Danish Dynamite*
Bristol Beer Factory Gambler
Weekend Project Island Hopper*
Mallinsons Centennial Wai-iti
Burning Sky Porter*
Keg
Siren Eleven Finger Discount*
Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake:Chocolate Orange Tiramisu*
Phantom What Day Is It*
Bluntrock Mr Milksop
Disruption Attributes*
Little doubt about BOTW, Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake:Chocolate Orange Tiramisu, taken in Sips, proof that Salisbury is slowly moving toward a more modern beer scene.
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"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Not bad but oddly two beers with 'Nelson' in the name from two different breweries at The Bear Otherwise:
Burton Bridge - Fox & Goose **
Burton Bridge – Stairway to Nelson Sauvin **
Coach House - Post Horn **
Macintosh - Best **½
Mad Squirrel - Winter’s Tail **½
New Bristol Brewery - My Nelson Romance **½
Portobello - Market Porter **½
Purity - Mad Goose **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Tring - Side Pocket **½
Twickenham - London Porter **½
Twickenham - Small Batch Oatmeal Stout **½
Wolf - Granny Wouldn’t Like It **½
BOTW goes to Ilkley - Lotus **¾ at N1's White Swan.
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A quiet week.
Fernandes - Vril.
Fernandes - Spaced Out.
Riverhead - Deer Hill Porter.*
Horbury - Citra.
Fernandes - Empress of India.*
Fernandes - Wacca.
Botw goes to the Empress, a satisfying pale beer (6%), made with Cascade, Bullet and Fuggle hops. Taken in Luis Bar @ Fernandes.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Croydon and Hammershit.
Lakedown -- Extra Special Bitter *
Oakham -- Green Devil IPA *
Adnams -- Ghost Ship
Brixton -- Reliance Pale (keg)
Fullers -- ESB *
Timithy Taylor -- Landlord
Fullers -- HSB
Crossed Anchors -- Lola Palooza Sour * (keg)
Thornbridge -- Jaipur *
Flack Manor -- New Forest Classic IPA *(3PT)
Hogs Back -- Surrey Nirvana
Vault City -- Strawberry Sour *(keg)
Southwark -- LPA
BOTW goes to Oakham Green Devil IPA on great form in this 'spoons.
Next week just footie,otherwise very quiet.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Out East:
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Moongazer Cheeky Jack*
Woodfordes Bure Gold
Lacons Saint Nick
Woodfordes Volt (keg)
Barsham Oaks
Barsham Golden Close IPA
BOTW Brancaster Oystercatcher. An old favourite that gets the vote as it's what I drank most of.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
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