The Broken Drum (Free House)
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29 Mar 2024 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close. Wow a new rural café look with polka dot oilcloth table cloths on each table, one with a red tomato ketchup squeezer for effect!
Ramsgate Brewery (Gadds') - No. 5 | 4.40 | | Originally put off by seeing the cask well tilted but a taster convinced me to try it and this was very very good still |
Kent - Session Pale | 3.70 | | Session Pale as it should be |
Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Goodness Gracious Me! | 4.80 | Not Tried | |
26 Feb 2024 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close.
Titsey - Gresham Hopper (was 3.7%) | 3.40 | | Thin gruel, new cask on today. Condition good but uninspiring. Suspect has suffered from the duty saving reduction in ABV |
Titsey - Leveson Buck | 3.70 | | Tasty brew |
Bexley - Bursted Session Bitter | 3.80 | Not Tried | |
19 Feb 2024 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close.
Southwark - Borough Market Brown Ale | 4.50 | | An OK brown ale |
Bexley - Hills & Holes Kent Hop Pale | 3.80 | | Lacking much nose or flavour, very bland |
Titsey - Vanguard | 3.40 | Not Tried | |
22 Jan 2024 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close.
Titanic - Iceberg | 4.10 | | Refreshing cleanness of taste. Managed to knock over all of my first half, bar a first sip |
Thornbridge / Thornbridge Hall - Jaipur | 5.90 | | Rare premium beer for this haunt |
Mighty Oak - Oscar Wilde Mild | 3.70 | Not Tried | |
02 Jan 2024 (Philip Pirrip)
Got in just before last orders then til a relaxed kick out time
Beerblefish - Pan-Galactic Pale | 4.60 | | A very zingy pale ale. Needed more body |
Fell - Sepia | 4.50 | | Good attempt at a brown ale. Very near end of cask though and suffered for it |
New River - Chadwell | 4.20 | Not Tried | |
27 Dec 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close. Customers well spread out in all four corners.
Broken Drum Home Brew - Gaspode Mild | 4.00 | | At 4% this time and a very downable ale. Packed with flavour |
Goacher's - Best Dark Ale (aka Original) | 4.10 | | Very last pint out of the cask. Still very passable |
By The Horns - Stiff Upper Lip (downgraded from 3.8% in 2023) | 3.40 | Not Tried | |
Tonbridge - Traditional | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
11 Dec 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close. A sense of local CAMRA branch rebellion was evident.
Tonbridge - Golden Rule | 3.50 | | Good degree of natural carbonation |
Broken Bridge - Gaspode Mild | 4.00 | | Felt stronger than 4% to me. Rather a slow drinker as soon had no head or lacing in the glass |
By The Horns - Blue Bird | 4.50 | Not Tried | |
04 Dec 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close.
Broken Drum Home Brew - Broadman Pale | 4.00 | | Superb home brew bursting with English bittering hops. Everybody here was drinking it. Came across as way above 4% |
Brockley - Session IPA | 4.60 | | I should have picked up the signs as everyone was drinking something else. Tired, sharpish, time it came off sale I'd say |
Brockley - Pale Ale | 4.10 | Not Tried | |
23 Oct 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close. Too much yapping and not enough drinking, so last one had to be rushed.
Kent - Pale | 4.00 | | Second pint was a slight improvement on the first - not sure why |
Koomor (contract brewed at Iron Pier) - Petal | 4.80 | Not Tried | On special offer reflecting its slow sales and a taster made me no patron |
Canterbury Ales (sometimes badged as Canterbrew) - Green & Gold | 5.40 | Not Tried | |
02 Oct 2023 (Philip Pirrip)
Evening visit until close.
Broken Drum Home Brew - Errol the Green Dragon | 3.60 | | This year's green hopped bitter - this is the 2nd of 3 casks brewed. Just on this evening and pretty much everyone was on it |
Goody Ales - Bleangate Brewery - Genesis | 3.50 | Not Tried | |
Musket - Trigger | 3.60 | Not Tried | |
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