A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Kent:
Goacher's-Best Dark 4.1%.abv.The essence of Kent, the first Excellent rated beer this year.
"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.
Halesowen,Stourbridge,Wombourne,Wolverhampton and Stafford.
Castle Rock -- Elsie Mo * (3PT)
Leather Britches -- Hairy Helmet *
Salopian -- Prohibition
Mallinsons -- Cascade * (3PT)
Nothing Bound -- Kinlet Park (keg)
Kinver -- Old Bush * (>3PT)
Oakham -- Hell Bent Coffee Porter *
Kinver -- Khyber *
Titanic -- Iceberg* (3PT)
Titanic -- Plum Porter *
Morton -- Essington Pale *
Salt -- Alpacalypse (keg)
Titanic -- White Star * (3PT)
Byatts -- Amarillo Session IPA
Salopian -- Altitude *
Fixed Wheel -- Hen Rage.
Some real quality on display but after a hot days boating you can beat Titanic Iceberg served in perfect condition in Hail to the Ale ,a worthy winner of boat trip pub of the tour.
Next week I need to take a break.
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"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Hants and Surrey plus Brighton.
Cask
Harveys Best
Burning Sky Aurora*
Good Chemistry Good Odds*
Three Legs Offa
Three Acres English Pale Ale
Electric Bear NEIPA In The Bud*
Siren Fashionably Late
Ten Tun Jenifer Lopez Dispenser*
Hop Shed Wheatlow
Stardust Easy Pale Mosaic
Oakham JHB*
Keg
Unbarred Casual Pale*
Laine Sonar
Duration Turtles All The Way Down*
The Kernel Imperial Brown Stout London 1856*
Siren Suspended In Anchovy*
Ten Tun Massive Dancer*
Ten Tun Eternal Fry-Up*
Pipeline Wipeout
Bearwood Rogue Protocol*
Can
Badger (Hall & Woodhouse) Outland India Pale Lager
A few very good beers amongst the list but nothing comes close to BOTW The Kernel Imperial Brown Stout London 1856, Hellishly strong at 10.1%,
hellishly expensive at £ 9.75 a half but hellishly good in The Evening Star.
Yet another missed train.![]()
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Late:
BOTW Castle Rock Elsie Mow at the excellent Waggon and Horses.
"Beer is food." Morse, Colin Dexter