A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Norbiton and Croydon
Exeter -- Darkness
Pottery -- House Lager
Wadworth -- Horizon
Harvey's -- Sussex Best
St Austell -- Proper Job
Wantsum -- Yellow Cake
Park Brewery -- Saw Pit
Fullers -- London Pride
Cairngorm -- Wild Cat
Thornbridge -- Jaipur IPA
Salcombe -- Shingle Bay
and BOTW Vault City x 3 Sons Triple -Stacked Lumberjacks Breakfast
,a keg stout-imperial/double pastry 11.5% which I've had before and was magnificent in The Craft Beer Cabin.
Next week Leipzig then end month sessions in Hertford and London so should be a bumper week.
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Kent:
Ramgate Brewery-Gadd's No 5 4.4%abv. Tired
Dark Star-Hophead 3.4%abv. Nostalgic citrus jobbie.
Three Legs-N Z Pale:Rakau and Nectaron. 4.8%abv. Full bodied tropical fruit.Slight haze. My BOTW.
Tonbridge-American Pale 5%abv.Delicious resinous Pale.
"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.
A lovely stand-out mild this week: Thornbridge Present.
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
Surrey, Hants Greenwich and Central London.
Cask
Pentrich Fighting For A Sandwich
Stancil Blonde*
Elusive Urban Haze*
Hop Monster Son Of A Jago*
Roosters Scoundrel
Timothy Taylor Dark Mild*
Harvey's Pells Pale
St Austell Proper Job
Iron Pier Session IPA*
Bass Pale Ale
Maverick Equinox
Electric Bear The Cascade Effect*
Keg
Nothing Bound The Whipgrass*
New Invention White Noise
New Invention Chocolate Fondant Stout*
Elusive Tasman*
Beavertown Neck Oil
Camden Hells Lager
Newbarns 11 Plato Pils*
This week BOTW is Electric Bear The Cascade Effect, a nicely balanced West Coast IPA, in The Borough Beer House.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
BOTW Duration Turtles All the Way Down (keg). Delicious and dangerous at 5.5% on a warm day.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter