Beer of the Week (w/e 4th January 2026)

[ROBCamra]

[Thuck Phat]

Festivities!

Oakham Bishops Farewell*
Fosse Way Dark Side*
Moongazer Pintail
Brancaster Brewdolph*
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Everards Old Original*

All these were good to very good but I'll go for Fosse Way Dark Side as BOTW. A rich, dark, 4.8% porter which went down well in the Butchers Arms.

[Bucking Fastard]

St Pancras,Brookmans Park and Deptford.

Loch Lomond -- Bonnie & Blonde *
Oakham -- Citra * (3PT)
Titanic -- Plum Porter
Windsor & Eton -- Mandarin
Salt -- Citra (keg)
Salt -- HuckaBack (keg)
Brockley -- Autumn Amber
Hammerton --Walk West (keg)
Ossett x Amundsen -- Chocolate Stout *
Pastore -- Double Crumble Apple Blueberry Maple Sour *(keg)
Inbev -- Stella (keg)

BOTW goes to Ossett x Amundsen Chocolate Stout on NBSS 4.5 form in The Lucky Anchor ,which was quite a find.The Pastore sour was a very close second.

Next week yet more footie but otherwise quiet.

[Mobyduck]

Reading, Brixton and localish.

Cask
Oakham Harmonia
Oakham JHB
Mysterious Aurum
Burning Sky NZPA*
Pentrich Futures Past*
Double Barrelled Maple Pecan Brownie*
Indie Rabble Retro Suitcase
New Bristol Pasta De Nata Stout*
Howling Hops Wait For Me
3 Brewers Blonde
Mallisons Lemondrop
Bearwood Flashforward*

Keg
Bearwood Flashforward*
Bearwood Time Is An Illusion*
Radio City Battle Pints*
Staropramen*
Siren Dark Chocolate Caribbean Chocolate Cake*
Siren Darth By Caribbean Chocolate Cake*
Howling Hops Rising Sun*
Loud Shirt Take My Shoes Of And Throw Them Into The Lake*
Flowerhorn Limbzilla*
Stardust Twill*
Elusive Redondo*

Some average/dodgy quality cask this week but a few excellent ones dotted in-between.
BOTW is New Bristol Pasta De Nata Stout, the first time tried on cask and wonderful in The Borough Beer House.