Pumps over the last couple of weeks.

It was our birthdays over the last couple of weeks and although most things went wrong over this time, we did manage to have a few new beers.

Fyne Ales, Vital Spark from Scotland

4.4% deep brown in colour with a nice head, fruit and malt aroma, the taste is a slightly watery malt.

Electric Bear, Howdy Ho from England

5.1% brown in colour with a nice head, not mutch aroma, the taste was interesting but ok.

Durham, Black Bishop from England

4.1% almost black in colour with a good head, nicee stout aroma and a slightly fizzy but nice stout taste.

Great Heck, Mercy from England

4.0% gold colour with a nice head, it was one of those hoppy beers, too hoppy for me.

Sonnet 43, The Raven Bourbon Milk Stout from England

4.3% black in colour with nice head, nice sweet aroma and a good sweet but stout taste.

Part One, Fishermans Arms Beer Fest, Easter 2018

The Fishermans Arms Beer Festival was on for all four days this Easter, unfortunately I could only make it there on the Sunday. The selection was very good and I liked most of them, the reason I have to do two blogs is the amount of beers I tried. The reason I could try so many in such a short time was by having 1/3 of pints, three at a time (as usual there), here is an old photo.

On the Sunday when we where there, we joined in with the quiz with our Mick and Brenda and one or two others. Amazingly we won, although I have no idea what happened to the winnings.

Yard of Ale, Egg-stra Yard from England

4.5% gold in colour with a nice head, bit of a citrus aroma and a fruity taste.

Yard of Ale, Black as Owt from England

4.2% black in colour with a good head, a nice smooth stout, I am enjoying some of these new stouts.

Durham, White Stout from England

7.2% gold in colour with a good head, not much aroma and the taste was bitter and hoppy.

Taylor Illingworth, Cast House from England

4.4% brown in colour with a good head, it had a nice aroma and taste a very good brown ale.

Back Wolf, ROK from Scotland

4.0% light amber in colour with a good head, not much aroma but a nice bitter taste.

Bradfield, Farmers Plum Bitter from England

4.4% amber in colour with a nice head, there was some sweetness in the aroma and taste but was it plumb? It was a decent bitter though.

Lord's, The Bandon Car from England

4.8% dark brown in colour with a good head, another good porter/stout, sweet and slightly smoky malt taste.

March trip to Durham, 2018

A few days after our trip to York, we went up to Durham for a couple of days and had quite a few beers there as well.

Camerons, Brown Dog from England

4.3% brown in colour with a good head, nice malt aroma and a brown malty taste.

Bone Machine, Skeleton Party from England

5.2% slightly cloudy yellow in colour with a thin head, hops in the aroma and the taste.

Wild Beer, Millionaire from England

4.7% black in colour with a nice head, a roast malt aroma and a slightly sweet roast malt taste.

Durham, White Gold from England

4,0% gold colour with a good head, citrus lemon aroma, dry refreshing grapefruit taste.

J W Lees, Game On from England

4.2% amber in colour with a thin head, some fruit in the aroma and a caramel and malt taste.

Salopian, Bertza from England

5.5% black in colour with a good head, some chocolate in the aroma and a nice slightly sweet roast malt taste