Couldn’t get back to sleep this morning so did mine
Pale: Cloudwater - DIPA v11 or Wylam - Ham-fisted (had a few equal on 4.5 on untappd so had to go on what I remember enjoying the most)
Stout/Porter: Magic Rock - Bearded Lady Barrel Aged Bourbon dessert edition (again couple tied in Untappd ratings)
Sour: Mad Hatter - Tzatziki Sour
Other: Magic Rock - Cherry Cola vice (listed as a sour but didn’t find it sour)
Festival: Hop City
Bar: 6 degrees North, Glasgow.
Pale: Verdant - Maybe One More PSI
Stout/Porter: Modern Times - City of the Dead or Omnipollo - Anagram
Sour: Beavertown - Tempus Project Moonshiner
Other: Legitimate Industries - Belgian Quad
Conversely my absolute worst beer was By The Horns - Wolfie Smith, which smelled and tasted like absolute toilet.
Pale: DEYA - High Planes Drifter or Wylam - Open to persuasion
Stout/Porter: Buxton - Original Texas Pecan Ice Cream
Sour: Beavertown - Tempus Project Moonshiner
Other: Little Earth Project - Organic Harvest Saison
Festival: None this year
Bar: Brus, Copenhagen
Worst beer goes to some horrible Lychee one from Bali.
Pains me to say it as they’re local to me, but they really aren’t great.
They’re a short walk from my house and the tap room is a brilliant great place to go with kids en route to get lunch in Tooting or Earlsfield, but i’ll almost always opt for the guest beer (usually Belleville).
The first things I had from them were Stiff Upper Lip and Mayor of Garratt which were both on cask and both very good. Excellent, actually. Then I think their head brewer left and they starting doing loads of really odd keg/bottled beers. Samba King and the Two Tone Lager are especially bad.
This is why I need to get back on Untappd. I think my only list is in this thread…
Festivals: I’m yet to go to one of the new wave of beer festivals. Remain a fan of weird CAMRA ones where all the men wear sandals and have Gandalf style walking sticks
Bar: First visits to Cloudwater in Manchester and The Antelope in Surbiton were pub/bar/tap room highlights. Also enjoyed trips Shilling Brewing Company in Glasgow, The Waterloo Tap and the new Mother Kellys. So many great places to drink these days.
They really are. Sessionable ales, shit sandwiches, Morris Dancers, and I’m a huuuge fan of a takeout in one of those milk bottle things for the train home.