Beers in Warwick, part two

Continuing the write up of the draught beer from our holiday away in Warwick. All of theses are from the same pub, just outside the town walls. The Old Post office bar is fantastic, opens at twelve and closes about eight or nine, just enough time for us to drink. We went in there on about three or four nights while we were there. I could not get photos of the pumps but the landlord passed the pump labels to me.

Crouch Vale, Brewers Gold from England

4.0% gold colour with a nice head, low in aroma but hight in taste, I got honey, vanilla and some hops.

Slaughterhouse, Saddleback from England

3.8% amber colour with a nice head, quite an ordinary bitter, which is very refreshing after all these hoppy beers lately.

Slaughterhouse, Space Trotter from England

4.3% amber in colour with a nice head, fruity aroma and slightly sweet malt taste, not a bad beer at all.

Merry Monkey, Scrumpy

4.5% ordered this by accident, only drank half and gave the rest to Dot.

I am sure I had more than this but I may have missed them from the camera, well any excuse to go back.

Beers in Warwick, part one

Over the past couple of weeks we have been away on holiday, first in Warwick and then on to a cabin just outside Thirsk. I bought many beers while away but they are still in bottles to drink, so to start for now, I will cover the draught beers I had in Warwick and London.

Allsop Arms, Best Bitter from England

3.9% amber colour with a good head, decent aroma and taste, not too bad. The Allsop Arms is pub in Marylebone London, not sure if this was a new beer or just a mock up.

Green King, Magna Carta from England

5.0% amber colour with a nice head, fruity aroma and taste, not too bad, also from The Allsop Arms.

Church End, Goats Milk from England

3.8% gold colour with a nice head, hoppy aroma and taste, I am a bit tired of all these hoppy beers.

North Cotswold, Shagweaver from England

4.5% gold colour with a nice head, I think that these hoppy beers are starting to get to me, it was just ok.

Byatt's, XK Dark from England

3.5% dark brown in colour with a nice head, fruity roasted malt aroma and a very similar taste.

Wood Farm, No. 8 from England

5.0% amber colour with a nice head, not much aroma, some fruit in the taste.

Wood Farm, Best Bitter from England

4.2% gold colour with a good head, pretty ordinary bitter but saying that not too bad.

More to follow from Warwick soon.

Some of the missing beers

At the beginning of this, 279 posts ago, I wrote that I do not have the ability to describe all the various tastes, I just know what I like and if I do ever acquire a better ability, I will add to the descriptions.

Well that didn't happen and after my stroke I an even worse that I was before, but never mind, I will just keep on posting the beers with a poor description. So here are a few of the missing beers from the last couple of weeks, with my poor descriptions.

Wychwood, Pile Driver from England

 

4.3% amber colour with a thin head, a nice toffee aroma and a bitter caramel taste. Named for Status Quo.

Shepherd Neame, Atticus Lager from England

 

4.8% gold colour with a very thin head, tasted better than usual lagers.

Adnams, Southwold Jack Brand Crystal Rye IPA from England

 

5.0% pale amber colour with a thin head, not much aroma but a very hoppy taste.

Leeds Brewery, Pale Ale from England

 

5.2% gold colour with a good head, sweet fruity aroma, slightly fizzy but fruity bitter taste.

Leeds Brewery, Midnight Bell from England

 

4.8% dark brown in colour with a good head, malty aroma, taste has some vanilla to it, not bad.

If by some very strange reason I get better at this I will let you all know, but for now its all about the photos.

Beers from our trip to Harrogate.

Not done this for a while again and I do not know why, I am still having new beers.

Well we have been away to Harrogate for a long weekend and although we didn't have many new beers we did have some. So here are the beers I had.

Wickwar, Station Porter from England

6.1% very dark in colour with a good head, it had a nice aroma and taste, I did not know it was this strong when I bought it but it was very nice indeed.

Caledonian, Golden XPA from Scotland

4.3% gold colour with a nice head, it had a bitter hoppy aroma and taste, it wasn't too bad but I only had the one and moved on to another beer.

I did have other beers but I have covered them all before, I did however buy plenty of new bottles and will cover them when we drink them.

Sunday at the Beer Festival

On Sunday Dot, Ralph and myself popped into the Fish for part of the Beer Festival, day three I think. We left Amber with my Mam for a while, although Dot did go back for her and take her to the swings for a play.

The Fish is under new management since the last Beer Festival but the new people were just as good as the last, well done. I had had a few of the beers before but there were plenty I had not had before.

Consett Ale Works. Steel Town from England

3.8% amber colour with a good head, fruity malt aroma, some toffee in the taste.

Consett Ale Works. Red Dust from England

4.5% red colour with a good head, sweet aroma and a slightly sweet but nice taste.

Wylam, Angel from England

4.3% pale amber with a good head, caramel malt aroma, tart caramel malt taste. I had, had the bottle before but not the draught.

Jarrow, Red Ellen from England

4.4% almost black in colour with a good head, not much aroma with a bitter sweet taste.

Tyne Bank, Northern Porter from England

4.5% black in colour with a good head, slightly smokey aroma, sweet stout taste.

Truefitt, Viva Karenka from England

5.5% I had had all the others by now and I do not remember this one will have to try it again, Aitor Karanka is the Boro manager. Its a shame that Boro didn't make it, better luck next year.

Saturday night cancelled, sort of.

Jonathan was unwell on Saturday night so we did not meet up this weekend, although with Ralph and Amber here we did have a BBQ and a few beers. I only had cheep beers from Aldi, not the usual ones though, as the strength of those has been dropped from 3.6% to 2.6%, not a good idea.

Mondays football disappointment

With all the other times Boro have been to Wembley, I have watched with a group of people, friends and relatives but this time I was on my own. This age thing is not good at all. Dot and Amber came back just as the match started though so I was not on my own. Although I was not feeling too well and didn't even have a beer.

Well Boro lost, they had beaten the Canaries twice this season but this time managed to get beat by two goals, never mind there is always next season.

Tim and Emily were at Wembley for the match while Nicole and Georgia went to the pictures, do not know who had the best idea.