Beer of the Week (w/e 21st September 2025)
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Spey Valley Brewery - Spey's Cadet
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Surrey, Hants, Brixton, Bermondsey, Waterloo.
Cask
Youngs London Original*
Elusive Nelsons Revenge*
Electric Bear Schwifty
Vibrant Forest Paper Room*
Darwin Rare Stout
Oakham JHB
Triple fff Sundown
Iron Pier Thank You For The Mosaic
Black Hole Black Hole IPA
Keg
Murphy's Stout
Pressure Drop Le Gouter*
Starapromen
BrewDog Elvis Juice*
Bearwood Stromberg*
Utopian Fest Marzen*
Most of the cask was ok without being notable, bizarrely a very good pint of Youngs but BOTW is keg and a shootout between Bearwood Stromberg and the winner just edging it Pressure Drop Le Gouter taken in Ghost Whale.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Kent:
Harvey's-Sussex Best Bitter 4% abv.Good condition,if sweetish.
Tonbridge-Velvet Raven 5.2%abv.Delicious bible-black Porter;roast coffee,blackcurrants. 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.
Quiet one:
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Moongazer Cheeky Jack*
Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Everards Tropical
To ring the changes I should go for the Everards Tropical but it isn’t a patch on Brancaster Tropical.
BOTW Moongazer Cheeky Jack
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Croydon,Kensal Rise,Temple and Datchet.
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA *(3PT)
Oakham -- Inferno *
Fullers -- London Pride
Stone & Wood -- Pacific Ale (keg)
Siren -- Lumina (keg)
Cube -- West Coast IPA (keg)
Timothy Taylor -- Landlord
Beavertown -- Lunar Haze (keg)
Shepherd Neame -- Whitstable Bay Pale
Windsor & Eton -- Azacca the Clones
Generally poor beer while seaking out London heritage pubs so not for the first time BOTW goes to Thornbridge Jaipur IPA on sparkling form in The George.
Next week boat painting in Titanic country ,end month sessions and footie so a bumper week.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
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