Beer of the Week (w/e 9th August 2026)

[ROBCamra]

[Thuck Phat]

Varied week:

Turia Stark (can)*
Damm Complot Mediterranean IPA (bottle)
San Miguel (can)
Oakham Bishops Farewell
Brancaster Oystercatcher*
Moongazer Cheeky Jack*
Duration Turtles All The Way Down (keg)*

BOTW Turia Stark. A crisp, 5.5% lager from a Valencian brewery which went down beautifully on a warm Mallorcan day.

[Bucking Fastard]

Hertfordshire.

There were a lot of unreviewed pubs a mere bus ride away which produced the following horror list of ales and beer.I suffered for my art.

Greene King -- IPA (2 pubs)
Mc Mullen -- Country Bitter (3pubs)
Marstons -- Hobgoblin Gold
Heineken -- Birra Moretti (keg)
Greene King -- Brightside Pale
Fullers -- Dark Star Hophead
Sharps -- Doom Bar
Beavertown -- Neck Oil (keg)

and by default BOTW Nethergate Suffolk County in The Bull,previously unreviewed but worth a trip.

Next week a trip to Exeter and hopefully much better ale.

[Mobyduck]

This past week in Surrey, Hants, Wiltshire ( Salisbury) and Somerset ( Frome).

Cask
Ten Tun James Maybe*
Ten Tun Keira Fortnightly*
Wye Valley HPA
Hop Union Bonville Pale
Hop Union Miami Peach*
Frome Devils Backbone
Frome Space Taxi
Folly Road (Wadworth) Ozzie
Butcombe Adam Henson's Rare Breed*
St Austell Proper Job
Iron Pier Joined At The Hop Brewers Gold & Bramling Cross*
4Ts Tripwire*
Mallinsons Simcoe
Triple fff Moondance

Keg
Ten Tun What A Palaver*
New Invention Peach & Apricot Lassi*
Fourman Kite*
Neptune Black Cherry Abyss*
Thornbridge Midwest

BOTW goes to Ten Tun Keira Fortnightly a baby West Coast IPA at 4.5% and their best cask beer to date in my view. Taken in The Borough Beer House.