UK Weekend Beerage

a visit to 'spoons and a rather enjoyable Sixpoint Let it Rain brewed at Adnams followed by a disappointing Elland Amnesia so a return to Sixpoint.

 

Drink the Old Dan - I've kept one for ages before and it didn't seem to taste any different to a fresher bottle. Not worth keeping IMO....

I'm on a Fuller's Wild River. Hops

 

GK Double Hop Monster
A rather good beer, lacking in aroma but delivered a decent hop flavour and was easy to drink. Should make this their regular IPA .

Titanic Iron Curtain - very nice stout

 

Nottingham Stout and Porter Trail Part 2.
Met up at the Ned Ludd (one of those so-called craft bars) and began with a Titanic Stout , which I thought was an old friend till I noticed it had been buggered about with chocolate and vanilla. Decent enough but the ordinary stout is so much better.Memo to Mr.Titanic-if it ain't broke don't fix it!!!
Noticed that everybody in the place was drinking it.Newark Branch had descended.
Short bus ride to the Johnson Arms , a pub of great repute which I hadn't been to before.My Stout/Porter intentions went into the bin when I saw Shipstone's Bitter on cask.Absolutely irresistable and a pint went down singing hymns in chorus.
Back to the day's topic and the Dancing Duck Dark Drake 4.5% went down a treat.Another offering from a lady brewer.
On to the Victoria at Beeston. A note for anybody thinking of following in my footsteps; forget it. Beeston is in utter chaos with half the roads closed while they lay the new tramway.And the other half not closed are chockful of traffic , nearly impossible to cross.But the Victoria is a glorious pub and I digressed again for a pint of Holden's Black Country Mild , an old friend which never disappoints. Then a Porter ,4.5% from Full Mash brewery at Kimberley.
Back into Beeston and we found the Crown ,like a country pub in the town. Began with Green Duck's Duck Dastardly 4.5% ABV and finished the day with Finns Hall Porter 4.7% , both much enjoyed.

 

Will probably start with a few cans of something Six Point before moving on to something heavier, darker and possibly smokey.

 

They make some very good beers. I think my favourite was The Crisp.

 

Yep. The Crisp and Bengali Tiger tonight. That 'Sweet Action' will need to wait until tomorrow.

 

They've tried releasing lagers before haven't they? Should probably stick to what they know best

I had an Adnams Spindrift as it was reduced in price, much reduced in flavour compared to the Jarl I had after it


Although now getting punched, aggressively, in the tastebuds by Wild Wildebeest

 

I have had Unhuman cannonball, heady was better but I'm not sure I would go out of my way to track it down again as there are so many good IPA's in the UK.

 

Deli down the street has gotten a load of 4 week old Brave New World in. Easily a top 3 UK IPA for me.

Happy days.

 

after discovering a new (to me) beer shop in Otley I had a couple of pints of Caledonian Nightfall at a Peter Mulvey gig

 

Tempest. Easily my favourite brewery on this island right now.

 

I also picked up that Easy Livin' lager they do. Highly drinkable.