A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Just one pub trip so limited consumption with however a wonderful BOTW in New Bristol x Elusive Pastel De Nata Stout,a 7% pastry stout with vanilla,tonka,custard and cinammon notes.NBSS 4.5 in The Old Cross Tavern.
Next Week a few days in Gent ,a Hertford crawl and some footie so hoping for interesting bevvies.
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Surrey, Hants, Bermondsey.
Cask
Fownd Cosmic Santa
Fownd White Fox
Bearwood All Systems Red*
Hop Monster Greetings From Krampus
Vibrant Forest Canopy Series Gold
Wantsum Letters From Satan*
Neptune XPA
Harveys Sussex Best
The Kernel London Porter*
Ten Tun Gorgon Ramsay*
Keg
Bearwood Storm Series Thunder*
Flowerhorn Stogie
New Bristol Honeycomb Expresso Martini Stout*
The Kernel Export India Porter Simcoe*
Boundary The Ruthless Elimination Of Responsibility*
Both Kernel beers were excellent as you would expect, taken at their very busy Spa Road Taproom but pipping them at the post is
New Bristol Honeycomb Expresso Martini Stout taken nearer home in The Borough Beer House.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
East:
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Barsham Oaks
Barsham Eastern Gold
Moongazer Pintail
Leffe (keg)*
Having grown bored of finding only (relatively) low strength beers BOTW goes to Leffe at 6.6%. Blasphemy I know but I enjoyed it.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter
Kent: pedestrian. Two pints of lacklustre Pride and SBB led me to eschew cask for can. My BOTW-Parade from Beak at 6.2%abv.
"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.