Beer | Brewery | ABV (%) | Comments | Score:/10 |
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Windy Miller | Sail Brewery | 3.80 | Dark, rich and fruity. Smooth mouth feel with rolling berry-like tannins on the tongue. | 7.0 |
Hazelnut Coffee Porter | Saltaire | 4.60 | A conflicted beer, which is smooth but not really a porter. With coffee for sure, but barely notes of hazelnut. | 8.0 |
Shaky Bridges | Sandford | 6.00 | Fizzy, slightly sweet cider. Light orange to color and orange rind in after taste. Inoffensive. | 7.0 |
Rhubarbed | Sandford Orchard's | 5.50 | Tang of rhubarb, hence the name, but despite the gimmick is dry-to-medium and complex. | 8.0 |
Postmistress | Sandstone | 4.40 | Dark red in colour and smokey a/t. Worth trying. | 7.5 |
Poachers Ale | Sandstone | 4.40 | Weak and fizzy. | 5.0 |
Blone | Savour | 5.80 | Pine and fruity are lurking here, but it was too skunky and stodgy to get through | 6.0 |
Sparkling | Savour | 10.50 | Floral, honey and spice on the nose, with bright fizz. Presentation is of champers with similar expectations, but misses. Therefore, drink is a let down, when it shouldn't be. | 7.0 |
Rød Quinua | Søgaards Bryghus | 4.50 | Golden red beer with fruit blossom. Morrello (sour) cherry. Not sure if this is trying to be a ruby beer and misses or a fruit beer and makes it. | 8.0 |
LOA | Søgaards Bryghus | 5.30 | Subtle citrus aroma, browney red color. Hints of golden syrup with nut but not sweet. Would be good with sweet and sour style Thai or Chinese dishes | 6.5 |
Utzon Center Blond | Søgaards Bryghus | 5.00 | Cloudy appearance with citrus pine smell, with a hint of honey. Light citrus taste with misplaced bitterness. Tastes like the smell of lemon fairy liquid | 3.5 |
Utzon Center Dark | Søgaards Bryghus | 5.60 | Solid black appearance, but the base maintains a transparency with visible suspended grain. Distinctive smell roasted malts, follows in taste, reminiscent of good English mild stout. Good accompaniment to a traditional home made steak pie | 8.0 |
Jomfruhumle | Søgaards Bryghus | 4.80 | Subtle grain aroma, and coloured a deep red. Strains of mild ESB and/or similarity to Doom Bar. | 7.5 |
Klosterbryg | Søgaards Bryghus | 5.50 | Cloudy golden colour with fresh orange smell. Wheat beer with extra bitterness | 6.5 |
Strandgaper | Schelde Brouwrik | 6.20 | Musky golden with tart stringent notes, with dry banana a/t, giving it more a wheat beer feel than blond of its description | 7.5 |
Eku | SeyBrew | 0.00 | Light ruby beer | 5.0 |
Farmhouse Medium Cider | Sheppy's | 6.00 | Harsh, sour, and not effective. Maybe usable as a mixer | 4.0 |
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale | Sierra Nevada | 5.60 | Bottle conditioned with truly golden colour. Looks of honey, but taste slightly apricot and/or peach. | 6.0 |
Nikolai | Sinebrychoff | 4.50 | Finnish beer that's slightly above the norm for a session ale. Simple pils, but with nice tang. | 5.5 |
Koff | Sinebrychoff brewery | 4.50 | Finnish beer. Clean pils, but nothing special | 5.0 |
Sion Kolsch | Sion | 4.80 | Smooth, mildly hoppy, and refreshing. Light in colour and taste, not really a pils, but simple. | 7.0 |
Betty Stogs | Skinners | 4.00 | Cloudy and slow to settle, light bitter colour, biscuit in there, with good mouthfeel, but stains palete slightly - certainly more than it should for session ale (for which this would otherwise be perfect) | 7.0 |
Lushington's | Skinners | 4.20 | Very pale and light beers, with fruity session qualities. | 7.0 |
Slaapmutske Triple | Slaapmutske | 8.10 | Herbal and flora aroma and taste. Solid triple style. Livliness in aftertaste | 7.0 |
Hoggleys | Solstice Stout | 5.00 | Expectant black stout using malt and wheat. The latter takes the edge of what should be brilliant, since nothing exists in a pure enough form to shine through. Did win ''best local drink'' for Northamptonshire, which might appeal to those that share the water table, but misses the mark for those that don't. Still good. | 7.5 |
Castle Milk Stout | South African Breweries, SABMill | 6.00 | Black body, creamy head. Surprising refreshing. | 7.5 |
Dark Fantastic | Spectrum | 3.50 | Mild with dark ruby colour. Sweet-ish, with a flavour of caramel, toffee, and malt. | 7.0 |
Springhead Liberty | Springhead Brewery | 3.80 | Fullsome mouthfeel, heavy bitter on back on tongue in a/t. Texture of light porter. | 7.0 |
Clouded Yellow | St Austell | 4.80 | Delicate bottle conditioned with citrus, spices, and vanilla. Slight maple tastes, but destroyed slightly by over carbonation. Interestingly brewed with 50% wheat and 50% barley. | 7.0 |
Black Buffle | St Austell | 4.50 | A mild, but with fizz. Satiates too quickly, but otherwise pleasant. | 6.5 |
Grottenbeir | St Bernadus | 6.50 | Aromatic dark ale, thin, but nice taste. CO2 holds in the mouth | 8.0 |
Abbey St Martin | St Martins | 5.70 | Slightly sweet malt and spices make this a reasonable brune but ultimately non-descript | 7.0 |
St. Bernardus Abt 12 | St. Bernardus | 10.50 | Rich ruby brown colour with spice and herbs in the taste, alongside the typical caramel and chocolate. | 9.0 |
Provha | Staropramen | 4.00 | Light version of Staropramen, similar to a Becks vier. Crisp, dry, and fizzy. A Czech-lite experience. | 8.0 |
Dubble bruin | Steenbrugge (Palm) | 6.50 | Gentle brown, but the real taste comes in the aftertaste, where it’s still gentile â€" but agreeable. | 7.0 |
Edinburgh Gold | Stewart | 4.80 | Standard light pale ale. Inoffensive. | 7.0 |
Stone Caligornia Double IPA | Stone Brewery | 7.00 | Surprising deep golden ale. Hoppy (natch!) with malt backing. | 7.5 |
Black Ale | Stone Brewing Co. | 5.00 | Sillky black, heading to Budvar black, with many added hops so feels like American IPA | 7.5 |
Budding | Stroud | 4.50 | A straw coloured pale ale - a standard that ticks all the boxes with sweet malt and floral. | 7.5 |
Huna Red | Sunny Republic | 4.00 | Not red, but good biscuit, but too much potential lost with the citrus hop. | 6.5 |
Choko Stout | Svaneke Bryghuset | 5.70 | Pitch black beer with cola-like foam. Choc and vanilla aroma and smooth fluid mouth feel with a holding chocolate aftertaste akin to melted chocolate. Tastes like combination of dark and milk chocolate, like a gooey choc brownie. Good final beer of evenin | 9.0 |
Double Brown Ale | Svaneke Bryghuset | 5.70 | Raisin aroma with sour dough mouthfeel. Deep brown, foamy head, gives way to quaffable, session brown ale, more taste in aftertaste that during drinking. | 8.0 |
Den Udødelige Hest | Svaneke Bryghuset | 7.50 | Guinness dark colour with dark brown foam head. Strong grain aroma. Caramel, roasted grain, very rich and filling taste, but a little too fizzy on after taste. | 8.5 |
Skipper Clememts American Pale A | Svaneke Bryghuset | 5.70 | Musty golden colour and floral aroma. Average pale ale, with nothing to distinguish it from other beers. Unfiltered but with little residue. | 5.0 |
Classic | Svaneke Bryghuset | 4.60 | Golden brown colour with good head. Smell of grain. Taste of grain - with a lingering after taste, easy drinker. Better with food than alone. | 6.5 |
Syd-Øst for Paradise | Svaneke Bryghuset | 3.50 | Floral aroma over a pale golden colour. Slight head and moderate fizz. Distinct elderflower flavour with a mild hop bitterness. Light and refreshing. | 6.5 |
Mørk Guld | Svaneke Bryghuset | 5.70 | Red brown colour. Malted grain on nose. Very bitter with hints of caramel. Unfiltered with little residue and unpasteurised. | 7.0 |
Stout | Svaneke Bryghuset | 5.70 | Jet black beer with no head. Subtle grain aroma. Taste of Hovis granary wholemeal bread (the raisin bit) slight bitter after taste | 6.5 |