Beer of the Week (w/e 5th October 2025)
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Thin week with BOTW Hop Back Summer Lightening topping a very short list.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Wiltshire,Kent:
Stone Daisy-Phoenix 4.2%abv. Well grounded peppery stalwart.
Larkins'-Green Hop Best 4%abv.Tooth rasping hop oily delight.Grown up Larkins'. 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.
Not much to choose from, as usual these days, but this was good:
Thornbridge-Oakham American Pale ('from the Union')
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A rather pathetic week,just two pub visits with both serving Surrey Hills Shere Drop which is therefore BOTW,best pint in the King William IV.
Next week boat moving after an extended stay in Stone.Good ale virtually guarenteed in Tamworth.
Last edited by Bucking Fastard; 06-10-2025 at 16:41.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Surrey, Hants, N1 & SE1
Cask
Ten Tun Alfred Engers The 4th*
Fownd Gold*
Fyne Ales Oktoberfest*
Iron Pier Dark Mild
Wantsum Green Hopped Goldings
Wantsum Green Hopped Ernest*
Wantsum Green Hopped Emperor*
Revolution Wreckin Havoc
Howling Hops Hop Series Eldorado & Simcoe*
Howling Hops Life Coach*
Harveys Sussex Best*
Harveys Southdown Harvest*
Lakedown Sussex Pale
Black Hole Celestial
Keg
Howling Hops Festbier*
Glasshouse Starting To Fly*
Yonder Basque Cheesecake*
I was impressed by Ten Tuns debut cask beer Alfred Engers The 4th, NBSS 4.5 but this was soundly beaten by a pristine and faultless
Harveys Sussex Best NBSS 5 ( my third 5 this year) in The Royal Oak of course.
Last edited by Mobyduck; 06-10-2025 at 19:14.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
BOTW goes to Titanic - Velvet Curtain *** at The White Swan (JD Wetherspoon)
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