Beer of the Week (w/e 8th June 2025)

[aleandhearty]

[Thuck Phat]

Local:

Settle Brewery Attermire Pale
Front Row Hooker*
Byatts Healing Juice*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*

Thoroughly enjoyed the Healing Juice but BOTW was Front Row Hooker a 4.5% salted, chocolate and caramel stout. That sounds cloyingly sweet but it isn't and is so cleverly done that 3 pints wasn't a problem.

[Tris39]

Streatham and Carshalton. Nothing stands out:

Dark Star - Hophead **½
Howling Hops - Party Wave **½
Mad Squirrel - London Porter **½
Sambrook’s - Pomelo **½
Thornbridge - Jaipur **½
Timothy Taylor - Landlord **½
Vocation/Left Handed Giant - West Coast IPA **½

[Wittenden]

North Yorkshire,County Durham,West Yorkshire:

Yorkshire Dales-Drover's Arms:3.9%abv.Bible black,full bodied Yorkshire MILD.
Yorkshire Dales-Askrigg Ale:4.3%abv.Mid brown session bitter.Stone fruit.
Blackjack-Mosaic Light: 3.4%abv.Flavoursome,lightweight citrus jobbie, from a brewery new to me.
Wensleydale-Rose Tattoo: 4.2%abv. APA/Golden Ale, using the recently introduced Krush hop. Intensive citrus, backed up by stone fruit. Modern.
Black Sheep-Best Bitter:3.8%abv.Bittersweet,Yorkshire Grit. In excellent condition taken at The Rose & Crown
Black Sheep-Blonde :3.7%abv.Thin.
Yorkshire Dales-Swale Trail:3.8%abv. Solid Northern pale.Just what the doctor ordered.
Ossett-White Rat:4%abv.Resinous Northern Pale.

Only one dull one all week.A close run thing between the BS and Swale Trail, my BOTW being Yorkshire Dales Swale Trail,taken at Kings Head

[Mobyduck]

Surrey/ Hants/ EC1 and WC1

Cask
Electric Bear Gizmo*
Moor Revival*
Sam Smiths OBB
T Taylor Landlord
Harveys Sussex Best*
Harveys Lewes Castle Brown*
Brew York Monks Bar
Oakham JHB*
Titanic Steerage
Loud Shirt Small Batch 01*
Disruption Ernie Loves To Dance On Tables*
Roosters Yorkshire Best
Three Brothers S'more Porter

Keg
Ten Tun Pizza Jumpscare*
Ten Tun Temples Of Vista
Tenby 10th Birthday*
Brooklyn Stonewall Inn IPA
Maveric Luna*

The stand out beer was Harveys Lewes Castle Brown, superb beer in The Calthorpe Arms

[Bucking Fastard]

Late on parade....Victoria , Eltham and Bermondsey.

St Austell -- Proper Job
Shepherd Neame -- Whitstable Bay Pale
Greene King -- Hopping Special Amber
BrewDog -- Hazy Jane (keg)
Wantsum -- Heart of Darkness stout *
Inbev -- Stella (keg)
Three Acre -- Spring
Fullers -- Dark Star Hophead
Portobello -- Stiff Lip IPA
Lacons -- Brewers Series Goody
Runway -- Only After Dark *
Runway -- Progress Dark Mild *

A mixed bunch but BOTW goes to Runway Only After Dark,a rich 6% dark ale on superb form in the Hand & Marigold

Next week boating into the Erewash valley,maybe Lords cricket.