UK Weekend Beerage

Otley's Hop Angeles. A touch of American influence here - tasty.

 

Tapped Leeds Normal Lager, brewed on site and very drinkable. Founders All Day IPA @ North Bar, think I prefer it in bottle.

 

Began the Stout and Porter Trail in Nottingham today. So many pubs are involved we just looked at one pocket, the so-called Canning Circus Circuit. First stop was the Sir John Borlase Warren which I hadn't visited since it was a Shipstone's pub.My choice was Abbeydale's Black Bishop, 4.2 % and very pleasant indeed. Should have been the Falcon next but it didn't open till 5 so we walked a few more paces to the Organ Grinder. I began with Buxton's Rednik Stout, 4.1% and simply gorgeous , full and smooth. Next up was Buxton's Dark Nights at 5% which was described as an American style one, but despite the extra strength was nowhere near as flavourful as the Rednik.Not by a mile. The Salem Porter from Bateman's was an old friend and then came Elland'sPorter at 6.5% , lovely stuff too but hardly any more flavourful than the Rednik.
Next to the Hand on Heart , from the street looks like any other pub but look behind the bar and the rest of the pub is carved into the rock going back a long way. The dark stuff this time was Amber Brewery's Abbey Stout at 6%.
Star of the visit was the Rednik which showed that extra strength does not equal more flavour or more enjoyment.

 

I am very proud of you. To sink six pints of Pedigree and still be able to post without making a typo deserves respect

 

Used to be Dog or Double Maxim up our way. Now there are a couple of local breweries doing brown in cask

 

Used to see Brown Ale ( often a local or Whitbread) on the shelves in every pub. There was a cask brown at one of the pubs I visited yesterday but I was sticking to stouts/porters.

 

Still at work. Looking forward to starting the weekend with a Hopslam in a bit though.

 

I think that could work quite well, use a bit of candy sugar, choc malt and you're laff'n.

Hmm a new line in 70s confectionery beers?

Then I propose a Spangles flavoured lambic.

 

I'm going to have a 1994 Thomas Hardy Ale this weekend.