Wiper & True Amber Ale – In The Pines (4.8%)
In the pines, In the pines Where the sun never shines. - The Triffids “In The Pines” This is one hell of a resinous Amber Ale. It’s absolutely thick with pine wood stickiness. The Chinook hops add to...
View ArticleThornbridge Brewery Sequoia (4.5%)
I’m sorry, but why do so many people hold Thornbridge in such high regard? The beer is OK, but generally no more than that. There are a couple of beers in their range that I’d say I like very much. …...
View ArticleKiuchi Brewery Hitachino Nest Amber Ale (6%)
Do you like tamarind? If not you’d best steer clear of Hitachino’s Amber Ale. Personally, I love tamarind. I used to pick and eat them when I lived in Jamaica as a boy. It was sticky, rich and bitter...
View ArticleMoylan’s Brewing Co. Danny’s Irish Style Red Ale (6.5%)
Oh, I could drink this forever. Danny’s Irish Style Red Ale is a mouthful of a name and a delicious mouthful of a beer. Pouring a bright amber, the smell is treacle tart and flowers, and the malting is...
View ArticleAlechemy Brewing Co. 5ive Sisters Red IPA (4.3%)
Malty goodness and a sharp woodbine and lemon zest hop pretty much sums this beer up, but I feel that I ought to say more. Pouring a deep amber, the smell of 5ive Sisters is bran flakes and toffee...
View ArticleAdnams Wild Hop Amber Beer (4.8%)
Wild Hop is brewed with freshly foraged and garden grown hops which must mean that the brewers couldn’t have been entirely sure what flavours they were going to get. I like that idea. So, what’s it...
View ArticleTiny Rebel Cwtch (4.6%)
Cwtch: The Welsh word for an affectionate hug. There’s no literal English translation, but its nearest equivlent is “safe place”. So if you give someone a cwtch, you’re giving them a “safe place”. I...
View ArticleJack’s Abby Brewing Leisure Time Lager (4.8%)
Leisure Time Lager is a delight. It’s a lagered Wheat Beer brewed with lemongrass, coriander, orange peel and chamomile. The aroma is honey and straw and flower borders and the malting has a soft and...
View ArticleBishop Nick Embers (3.8%)
Strawberry, apple an Iced Gem aroma? Check. Straw, digestive biscuit and honey malt? Yes. Rich amber colour? That’s right. Pithy lawn clippings, hedgerow, nettle tea and lemon rind hops? You betcha....
View ArticleNew English Brewing Co. Dragoon (6.9%)
Well now, this is a lovely warming beer for a cold winter’s evening. Dragoon is an Amber Ale that’s heavy with redwood resin, bran flakes and rum. The aroma is leather saddlebags stuffed with toffee...
View ArticleEvil Twin Brewing Hop Flood (7%)
Hop Flood is a big scary bastard of an Amber Ale. It stinks of toffee and tamarind and its armpits are sweaty with hop oil spicy bitterness. You remember that über cool bloke that was never properly...
View ArticleMike Hess Brewing Grazias (6.3%)
Grazias is a “Vienna Style Cream Ale” that’s round and sweet and sumptuous. Pouring a dark chestnut, the smell is nothing short of treacle tart and vanilla custard. And that’s where the flavour starts....
View ArticleShepherd Neame Mash Tun No. 1 (7.4%)
Hello. You’re nice. Mash Tun No. 1 has been brewed to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Shepherd Neame’s wooden mash tuns. And it’s a rather good beer too, with lots of toffee and a big biscuit base,...
View ArticleGood Things In Small Packages: The Little Beer Corporation
A little while ago I found a bottle of beer in one of my mixed cases that made me smile and made me interested. It was from the Little Beer Corporation and it was called Little Rosy – A fruit …...
View ArticleHonest Brew Amber Ale (4.6%)
Pouring a warm amber, the aroma of this little beer is peach compote and honey. This is a beer that’s all about malts, and damned fine malts they are too. Everything’s round and chewy, plump with...
View ArticleRogue Brewing Co. Voodoo Doughnut Pretzel, Raspberry & Chocolate Ale (5.4%)
I’m late to the party, I realise that. Really late. But I’ve wanted to try one of Rogues collaborations with Voodoo Doughnut for what feels like forever, and now I finally have I have to say that it...
View ArticleCambridge Brewing Co. Red God (9%)
This might have been bottled in 2012 which, for a hop heavy beer, might be a little bit less than fresh, but whatever Red God was originally meant to be, it has become a very good malty beer. The aroma...
View ArticleCanopy Beer Co. Milkwood (5.9%)
Canopy Beer Co. are based a short walk from my old Charmenko office on Spenser Road, Herne Hill (before it relocated to Istanbul). Right on the edge of Brockwell Park, it’s a bit of London I know well...
View ArticleCerveses Lluna Bruna (5.2%)
Tamarind. In the smell and the flavour. Tamarind. So much that it almost takes over completely. Tamarind. Real, fresh tamarind, not the dip you get from your local Indian takeaway. Proper tamarind like...
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