Boat Lane Beers, all six I have had

I had four of these on Friday night, although it was in August last year that I bought all six of them in Bretforton. So where is Bretforton you may ask, well it's where my younger brother Andrew is buried. It was a long time ago now that he died but it is only the third time we have been down to see his grave.

We parked near the Church of St Leonard, where his funeral was, then walked over to the grave and as usual cried. We then had a walk around the village and ended up at the Bretforton Community Shop where I bought the beers.

I had two of the beers a week later in Tenby, Wales but the others I only had last night, so let's get on with the review.

Boat Lane, Waka from England

 

6.1% hazy amber in colour with a thin head, a sweet hop aroma and a complex taste with some liquorice.

Boat Lane, Gondola from England

 

5.1% cloudy gold in colour with a good head, sweet hop aroma and a bitter hop taste.

Boat Lane, Captains Table Beer from England

 

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a very thin head, sweet hop aroma, a very mild fruity hop taste.

Boat Lane, Bay Hopper from England

 

3.5% hazy gold in colour with a good head, verty hoppy aroma, a zesty hop taste.

Boat Lane, Liberty Boat from England

 

5.5% hazy gold in colour with a very thin head, fruity hop aroma, bitter hop taste.

Boat Lane, Oil Tanker from England

 

5.3% black in colour with a good head, sweet coffee aroma, a coffee and ice cream stout taste.

Beers from the first week in February.

Not been out to a pub this week, although I have had a few new beers. We are not even out this weekend, we are dog sitting. Syd is with us so we are not going anywhere, well not for a drink but we do get more walking done.

Anyway during the week I had three new beers (as usual I did have others but not new ones, well not to me).

Champigneulles (Lidl), Galereux from France

4.8% pale gold in colour with a quickly disappearing head, slightly sweet aroma and bitter taste.

Williams Brothers, Perfect Storm from Scotland

 

4.5% gold in colour with a thin head, a fruity hop aroma and a hoppy taste.

Thornbridge, Bison from England

 

6.9% gold in colour with a poor head, a citrus aroma and a taste of grapefruit not very good.

Belgian, Christmas Beers 2019, Part Three

Well I have eventually got round to finishing all of the Belgian Christmas beers (I think), I did have the last of them on the last day of January. There may be one or two that I have missed, if I do find any later I will add them then. There may be one or two English Christmas beers still to do but we will have to wait and see.

Now you may think, I thought he was telling a story with all of these beers, well I had all of these beers at home, on my own, so there is nothing to tell.

Fort Lapin, Snowlapin from Belgium

 

9.0% black in colour with a nice head, a spicy fruity aroma and a bittersweet plumb fruity taste, very nice.

Brasserie d'Achouffe, N'ice Chouffe from Belgium

 

10.0% deep brown in colour with a nice head, sweet aroma, the taste is christmas fruits and licorice, again very nice.

Brouwerij Huyghe, Delirium Christmas from Belgium

 

10.0% ruby red in colour with a short lasting head, spice fruit aroma, strong festive taste.

Ter Dolen, Winter from Belgium

 

9.1% amber in colour with a good head, fruity yeast aroma, strong sweet plumb taste.

Last weekend in January 2020

This weekend was the opposite to last week, we did not get out on Friday but did on Saturday and we really went out, to a pub.

On Friday, Trev was going out we we just stayed in but I did have some new beers. One was a Christmas beer, which I will cover later with the rest of the remaining Christmas beers. The other two were not too bad though.

Ardwen, Biere Blanche from France

 

4.5% cloudy yellow in colour with a very thin head, a french blanche aroma and a nice wheat beer taste. I did not realise it was a wheat beer so was pleasantly surprised by this one.

Ticketbrew, Pale Ale from England

 

5.5% pale amber in colour with a thin head, a bland citrus aroma, a nice but slightly fizzy taste though.

On Saturday, we picked Jonathan and Lorraine up and drove to The Fox & Hounds in Neasham and got parked up very easily. Inside was very empty as well, I think there was about sixteen people in there twenty with us lot. Anyway the food was very good, so I do not know what was going on with the amount of people in there, there were only ten of us eating. By the time we had eaten and had another beer in the bar, there were only four in there as we left. As for the food, I had a parmo and it was quite reasonable, anyway for drinks I had what was left from Christmas. We also had one more beer back at Jonathan and Lorraine's on the way home.

Black Sheep, Blitzen from England

4.9% ruby red in colour with a nice head, malt aroma, slight orange taste in there.

Gipsy Hill To Øl, Goober from England

5.5% black in colour with a good head, coffee aroma and the taste is chocolate and licorice, very nice.