Beer | Brewery | ABV (%) | Comments | Score:/10 |
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Blonde | Abolition Brewery | 5.20 | Traditional Belgian blonde, but a little too sharp | 7.0 |
Amber | Abolition Brewery | 5.20 | American-style Amber with sweetness on palate and light roast and copper on top. | 7.5 |
Milk Stout | Abolition Brewery | 6.40 | Follows the standards of the genre, without managing to stand out. | 7.5 |
Aurota | Abolition Brewery | 0.00 | A pale ale. (Other notes obscured by beer. Sorry!) | 7.0 |
Old Moor Porter | Acorn | 4.60 | Creamy porter with burnt roasts which hold in the mouth. Some licorice flavours, but mostly overpowered by the roast aroma. Quite filling. | 7.0 |
Spindrift | Adnams | 5.00 | Cold filtered, tastes not disimillar to Leffe Blonde | 9.0 |
Explorer | Adnams | 0.00 | Have it with fish and chips! | 7.0 |
Tally-Ho | Adnams | 4.10 | Heading to a barley wine. Too sweet and cloying, really, with dark cherry bite. Biscuit and raisin on palate. Have no more than 1/3 | 8.5 |
Jack Branch Ease Up IPA | Adnams | 4.60 | American style IPA. Solid, and manages to be an introduction to IPAs due to less obvious hop punch | 7.5 |
Affligem Noel | Affligem | 9.00 | A dark spicy brew, with many many hiddens tastes such as cinnamon, fruit, sugary malts, aniseed, nutmeg, citrus and raisins | 9.0 |
Rye o Rye | Alchemy | 5.60 | Biscuit golden dark amber. Soft bitter w/slight attack on a/t. Large head which dissipates after 5 minutse and/or 3rd moutful. | 7.5 |
Liberty Ale | Anchor | 6.00 | Good America IPA. Good solid hop bitterness, balanced with aromatic sweetness courtesy of the malts. | 8.5 |
Anchor Porter | Anchor | 5.60 | Strong equivalent of the other anchor brews | 7.5 |
Christmas Ale | Anchor Steam | 0.00 | Variable - depending on the year | 8.5 |
Hertog Jan Gran Prestige | Arcense Bierbrouwerij | 10.00 | Dark, malty beer with smokiness (often attributed to mild coffee/chocolate) SOmetimes considered a barley wine. | 8.0 |
Best Bitter | Archers | 4.00 | Amber with smooth bitterness. Decent, but not as good as the Golden | 7.0 |
I Beer | Art Brew | 4.00 | Light golden, with soft honey and vanilla aroma and taste. Bitter aftertaste. Vanilla follow through dominates, possibly to excess. | 6.0 |
Anastasias Exile Stout | Ascot Ales | 5.00 | Dark rich bottle ale. Visually flat, but discovers smooth bed of fizz when drunk. Rich and aromatic taste with dark caramel in taste. | 7.5 |
Alligator Ale | Ascot Ales | 4.60 | US style single hop beer using cascade hops with refreshing rounded taste and citrus-come-meadow aroma. Light, but slightly bitter, taste with pleasant if shallow a/t. Session. Loses fizz quickly. | 7.5 |
Coffin Lane Stout | Ashover Brewery | 5.00 | Good nose, but standard chocolate/coffee taste. A straight mild. | 7.0 |
Bhai | Aspall | 6.00 | Weird tangy drink, trying to be a 'proper' cider, but falling into the flavoured alcopop camp. Champagne yeast should have improved things, but just makes it dry. | 7.0 |
Augustiner Dunkel | Augustiner-Bräu | 5.60 | Close to ruby than dunkel. Very good, with malt and sweetness. | 8.0 |