Thursday, November 13, 2008

Hogsback TEA

After The Price Albert, we ducked through some backstreets down to the canals of Little Venice and made our way into The Warwick Castle, a nice pub with a massive lamp out the front! if you look at their website, you will see their regular ale selection is kind of bog standard and the guest ale they had on was Hogs Back TEA (4.2% abv) which we reluctantly ordered. TEA stands for Traditional English Bitter and is a standard best bitter. I found that the beer had a cloying residual sweet flavour in it, which is not really to my liking. For this reason I won't ramble on for too long! Check out the pub, but beware the beer is a little lame.
from here we crossed over the Canal and strolled into The Bridge House, a pub which is frequented by my wife's colleagues. A potentially good pub, which is ruined by a half assed gastro makeover and a theatre upstairs. Ale choice was Brakspears Bitter which you can read about here. They also had a few unusual German beers in tap, including a Kolsch if you are that way inclined. This pub also had a curtain around the toilet door, I could see no functional purpose in this furnishing!

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1 Comments:

Blogger Thomas said...

I've had TEA both in bottle as part of the CAMRA beer club delivery and on cask while visiting family in Surrey. I don't like it much, but was too afraid to say so because those I was with seem to think it is tops.

November 13, 2008 at 4:44 AM  

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