Full Beer List

Below is the full list of beer tasting notes and ratings arranged by brewery. Where is brewery is a subsiduary they may be listed under the larger brewery.

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Country	Brewery	Beer	Rt	Comments
Austria	1516	Quinoa Weisse	4	Wheat beer made with quinoa. Pale gold in colour and as opaque as a normal wheat beer. A pronounced sweet citrus boiled sweet flavour fades into a bready aftertaste.
Austria	1516	Victory Hop Devil IPA	3	Cloudy amber pale ale with a big foamy head and a sharp cirtrus hit in the taste that floats over the hops. Smooth and full mouthfeel. Quite refreshing and akin to an English pale ale but with a citrus hop.
Austria	7 Stern	Bamberger Rauchbier	4	A beer smoked over large amounts of beechwood that has a massive aroma of bratwurst but a more gentle smoked meaty flavour. Basically it's a sausage beer whose novelty doesn't wear thin.
Austria	7 Stern	Marzen	5	Hoppy amber beer with a brightness in the middle that settles into a lingering chewiness. In the bottle it is smokier and spicier. Full but not domineering and in the style of a traditional Vienna amber beer.
Austria	7 Stern	Osterbock	3	Almost buttery tasting Easter beer with a big initial gassiness that settles into a smooth creamy finish with a gentle spiciness.
Austria	7 Stern	Prague Dunkles	4	Dark, savoury Czech style beer with a big chocolate malt flavour that lingers smoothly in the mouth with a steadily growing bitterness and a slight hint of vanilla in the aftertaste.
Estonia	A le Coq	Viru	3	Estonian premium beer, brewed by a Belgian. Easy drinking but unexciting lager with a vanilla taste (apparently).
UK	Abbeydale	Bigamy	2	Dry and bitter light coloured beer with a slight soapy edge.
UK	Abbeydale	Last Rites	1	Stonking strong 11% beer that has elements of a Belgian triple but tastes more like fortified beer.
UK	Abbeydale	Moonshine	2	Slightly sour and alcoholic beer with no real kick.
France	Abers	Ouessanne Aux Algues	4	Cloudy gold beer made with seaweed that has a frothy white head and a fresh floral aroma. It is a gentle full bodied beer with a dry, wheaty taste with the salty seaweed edge creeping in at the finish. Akin to a Belgian blonde.
Belgium	Achel	Bruin 8	3	Bready, sweet, yeasty Belgian trappist beer with a creamy mouthfeel. There are hints of fruit and spices. Dark brown in the colour with a large head. Overall the creaminess makes it a touch too bland.
Belgium	Achel	Tripel	3	Bottle conditional trappist ale with a foamy banana taste and a bit of lemon. When hazy (with sediment mixed in) it is smoother and creamier. Overall it is somewhat lightly flavoured for it's 8% strength.
Belgium	Achouffe	La Chouffe	5	Dark blonde Belgian beer with a smooth full bodied taste underpinned by a deep spiciness.
Belgium	Achouffe	MacChouffe	4	Very strong, malty tasting beer with hints of whisky, sugar and caramel. Double fermented and with a taste to match. Not as notable as La Chouffe but would work well as a winter warmer.
UK	Acorn	Strongheart	3	Fairly bland blonde beer that slips down inoffensively but unimpressively.
UK	Adnams	Bitter	2	Light dry hopped beer that feels a tad watery. Feels thin and somewhat processed. Disapointing. Maybe it doesn't travel well.
UK	Adnams	Broadside	3	Ruby coloured ale with a firmly malty taste. A tasty beer let down by a slightly watery, soapy aftertaste.
UK	Adnams	Explorer	4	Gently dry and bitter amber lager that gives light refreshment with a full taste.
UK	Adnams	Gunhill	4	Ruby ale that starts off malty with a slight sweet fruitiness before developing a dry bitterness with a hint of chocolate and a dash of porter. Full flavoured but not too strong which makes it easy drinking.
Belgium	Affigem	Dubbel	4	Chestnut coloured with a beige head, this dubbel kicks off with strong spicy fruit notes underpinned by a deep syrupy malty flavour. Would benefit from some elements lingering in the finish.
Spain	Alhambra	Premium Lager	2	Spanish beer that tastes like an own brand supermarket lager.
Belgium	Alvinne	Dertig Erasmus	3	Deleriously potent strong blond beer that hits you like a Huyghe but without with tinkered spices. Very full bodied with a wheaty malty base and a slightly alcoholic edge that is not overpowering. A hint of hops in the finish. Brewed to celibrate the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus hotel in Bruges where it is served as the house beer.
USA	Anchor	Bock	4	At 5.5% this is quite a mild bock. Dark in colour with a very smoky nose. Roasted malts on the taste with a bitter coffee finish that quickly turns thin. Feisty, pleasing and transient enough to be a session beer.
USA	Anchor	Liberty Ale	5	Superb dry hopped pale ale with a gentle carbonation and a smooth light hopped taste that combine to give a full bodied and moreish beer with virtually no bitterness. Finer than their Steam Beer, which is saying something.
USA	Anchor	Old Foghorn	2	Sweet, yeasty American barley wine with the aroma of sugared almonds. Very heavily hopped and clearly very strong. Dissapointing.
USA	Anchor	Porter	4	Deep black beer and a heavy syrup and marmite taste. Smooth but with a slight crispness from the carbonation and a gentle hoppiness emerges. The depth of flavour is striking for the 5.6% strength. Bold but could have more complexity.
USA	Anchor	Steam Beer	5	Initially sharp but lingeringly dry and bitter amber lager with a full taste.
USA	Anchor	Summer Beer	2	The first American wheat beer of modern times' this venerable old beer brewed since 1984 (so not that old then) is straw coloured with a creamy head and rather bland. It is filtered, thin bodied and so lightly flavoured it is hard to discern more than a faint general hoppiness with a light carbonation. Pleasingly refreshing on a warm day - but so is breathing wet air. Not bad, just not anything much at all.
Belgium	Anker	Gouden Carolus Christmas	5	Mahogony coloured beer with flavours of pear drops, liquorice and nutmeg. Surprisingly light and drinkable for a 10.5% beer though there is a bit of alcohol in the aftertaste. The flavours blend together beautifully.
Belgium	Anker	Gouden Carolus Triple	2	Potent amber beer with a strong spicy taste which tends to become over alcoholic in flavour after the first few mouthfuls.
UK	Archers	Best	5	Smooth, light brown ale that slides down in an agreeable quaffable way with a light taste that is neither thin nor processed. A great session beer.
UK	Arkells	Moonlight	3	Light amber ale, malty flavour with a bland finish. Easy drinking but dull.
Japan	Asahi	Munich-Type Black	3	An initial gassiness gives way to a gentle burnt coffee taste which fades to leave no pronounced aftertaste in this smooth dark beer.
Singapore	Asia Pacific	Tiger	3	Crisp hoppy lager with a moist rounded malty finish and a gassy tingle. Refreshing but possibly a little too lightly flavoured. Perfectly pleasant though.
UK	Badger	Hopping Hare	4	A thrice hopped golden ale that is hoppier than a field full of bunnies on springs. Light and refreshing and clearly a spring ale. A great base for the styrian goldhogs hops and a light but full flavoured ale with depth.
UK	Banks	Bitter	2	Bland, smooth, creamy bitter that isn't unpleasant but is severely lacking in flavour - may not have been best served when tasted.
UK	Banks & Taylors	2 Brewers Bitter	2	Dry, light and bland ale with a slight soapiness
UK	Banks & Taylors	Crooked Hooker	2	Rather sharp blonde ale.
UK	Bass	Our Finest Ale	3	Amber ale with a small creamy head. Slightly watery with nutty hoppy taste to it. Similar in a way to Speckled Hen.
UK	Batemans	Dark Mild	4	A beer that matches it's name. Big flavours of stewed fruit with a gentle sour vinegar finish. Only 3% but with bundles of flavour. Great session beer.
UK	Batemans	Maypole Dancer	3	Light amber ale with a gnetle bitter malty taste. A decent session beer.
UK	Batemans	Victory Ale	5	Dark amber beer with a deep caramel taste. Fairly flat and slightly sweet. Probably and acquired taste but I really liked it.
UK	Batemans	X-Bee	3	Cloudy gold beer with a good sized head. A honey edge is in the taste with a bready, soapiness that clouds the flavour. There is a hint of blackberry in there too.
UK	Bath Ales	Barnstormer	4	Chestnut brown bitter with a quickly fading head. A dash of soy sauce on the aroma. Full bodied, hoppy taste with fruit flavours and a measured bitterness. A slight ground coffee edge, with elements of say sauce, develops to round things off. There is an almost subliminal suggestion of chocolate - possibly only because the brewers claim there is.
UK	Bath Ales	Gem	3	Chestnut brown ale. A light bitter with an earthy soapy taste that has a hoppy base and nothing much except a slight sourness in the finish.
UK	Bath Ales	Golden Hare	3	Amber coloured bitter with a soapy hoppy flavour and a caramel finish.
UK	Bath Ales	Old Slug Porter	4	Smooth and gentle porter. Dark in colour with a vanishing head. The coffee grounds flavour is light and complimented with berry flavours. There is a tart bitter finish. Well balanced and very drinkable.
UK	Baxters	Yvonne	3	Light beer with a tangy hoppiness.
Czech	Bernard	Sveltly Lezak Pilsner	3	Champagne yeast beer that feels like an ultra-gassy lager. Bottle conditioned with variable head. Deeper taste than Kasteel Cru.
Germany	Bitburger	Köstritzer Schwarzbier	3	Dark pilsner that is more gassy, acidic and lagered than you would think from the black colour. A fruity aroma with a malty flavour. A bit like Asahi dark. Solid but a bit bland.
UK	Black Country	Pig On The Wall Mild	3	Fairly dark, malty mild with a taste that is not overpowering.
UK	Black Hole	Bitter	2	Straw coloured ale with no head. Crisp dry citrus hop flavour without much in the finish. Not to my taste.
UK	Black Hole	Star Gazer	3	Watery beer with a distinctly dry and bitter taste that is redeemed by a building maltiness. Would go well with food or snacks.
UK	Black Isle	Scotch Ale	5	Bottle conditioned red ale made with peat smoked malt and bog myrtle that has the flavour of a Belgian gueuze. Slightly fruity and sharp with a very full flavour.
UK	Black Sheep	Ale	4	Regular strength ale with a solid bitter taste.
UK	Black Sheep	Emmerdale	4	Light Ale with a bitter finish. Very pleasant
UK	Black Sheep	Holy Grail	4	Light golden brown ale with a bitter and hoppy taste. There is a slight fruitiness and a dash of fizz in the finish.
UK	Black Sheep	Riggwelter	4	Smooth, porterish Wensleydale strong ale with a coffee taste. Very drinkable but lacking the subtlety or spark of something different to make it exceptional. As good as slightly plain beer gets.
UK	Bluebear	Wanderlust	2	Creamy, smooth golden ale with the briefest hint of hops but generally bland.
Belgium	Boon	Kriek	4	Light and floral lambic cherry beer with a tart edge and a light sourness. The cherry taste comes through in the finish with a hint of boiled sweets. Would suit hot weather.
Belgium	Bosteels	Pauwel Kwak	3	Amber beer with a large head, especially when served in it's fancy mini yard of ale glass. The faint orange aroma is overtaken by a gassy, malty hoppy taste with a hint of sour orange in the finish. The brewers were keen on the sugar but despite being a bit dry it is pleasant enough.
Belgium	Bosteels	Tripel Karamelit	4	Smooth tripel enhanced with wheat and oats. Slightly herbal, light in colour and fells a bit bottom heavy. There is a also a champagne fizz with a sweet banana taste. Pleasant but a bit too gently flavoured.
UK	Bowmans	Swift One	3	Dry and bitter light coloured ale
UK	Brass Monkey	Golden Monkey	3	Light gold ale with a gentle hoppy taste. There is a background citrus note. It becomes a bit thin and bitter towards the end but is a decent session beer.
Austria	Brau Union	Puntigamer	2	Bland mass produced unremarkable lager that shares it's lack of flavour with beers that are only 3%. This is 5.1% abv.
Austria	Brau Union	Wieselberg Spezial	3	Full bodied lager with a bitter hoppy taste that is lifted by a sweet maltiness in the aftertaste. Not overly gassy and pleasing enough.
France	Bretagne	ArMen Blonde	4	Belgian style amber ale with a stronger taste that it's alcoholic strength. Deep and smooth in flavour with a subtle caramel edge with a rustic feel. A good subtle beer that occasionally makes you want one of it's stronger and more complex Belgian cousins but is in fact a quiet easy going success. Goes well with food.
France	Bretagne	ArMen Rousse	4	Cloudy brown smoked whisky malt beer with a big creamy head. The smoked taste has the feel of German sausage but overall the beer is quite light with a dash of rustic French charm and a slight artificial feel.
UK	Brewdog	Dogma	4	Nectar coloured strong ale flavoured with heather honey, guarana, poppy seeds and kola nut. The alcohol and honey tastes dominate with malt and nut tastes giving a good balance. A good offbeat beer but one a night is enough.
UK	Brewdog	Hardcore IPA	2	Amber beer with a dry woody pine flavour, gassy tingle and gooseberry flavour. There is a winey tropical fruitiness and a hint of caramel. Strong alcoholic kick and overly heavy on the hopping.
USA	Brooklyn	East India Pale Ale	3	Huge hops dominate this light coloured beer. There is a dry, musty taste that has a citrus flavour in the background. Typical of an American IPA.
USA	Brooklyn	Lager	4	Brooklyn's pre-prohibition beer. Amber in colour it has a great balance of hoppy and malty flavours with a refreshing floral edge. A gentle bitterness appears in the finish. More full flavoured ale than Fizzy american lager. Good stuff. Sometimes tagged as a Vienna lager.
UK	Broughton	Double Champion Ale	4	A blend of a Scotch style strong ale and a porter. Tastes like a smoother porter with a slight coffee note.
UK	Broughton	Merlin Ale	2	Starts out promising to be a shimmering and ephemeral golden ale with a gently pungent taste but ends up bland and watery. Could work well as an accompaniment to food but an anitclimax on it's own.
Iceland	Bruggsmidjan	Kaldi Dokkur	3	Mahogany coloured lager, no head. Gassy and malty with a hint of porterish coffee grounds in the background. Light and easy drinking with a nice aroma and little that lingers in the finish.
Iceland	Bruggsmidjan	Kaldi Lager	3	Golden lager with a rich gassy taste that brings maltiness to the fore. The gassiness lingers into the finish. Fairly standard stuff but OK.
Belgium	Brunehaut	Daas Blond	3	Restrained, cloudy straw coloured Belgian organic ale. Gassy with a dry bitter spicy base that has the volume turned down low. A beer to go with something rather than one to drink on it's own. Delerium Wallflower?
Czech	Budejovice	Budvar	3	Dry, hoppy lager with a gentle malty aftertaste. Perfectly drinkable but a little on the thin side.
UK	Burts	Traditional	3	A bland and unexceptional light brown beer with a soapy taste. However it is light and refreshing.
USA	Busch	Budweisser	3	The king of beers, due to it's popularity, is often sneered at. It was brewed to be the lowest common denominator of US beer. There is the dominant gassiness you would expect but there is an interesting woody hoppiness that is appealing.
UK	Caledonian	Deuchars IPA	3	Creamy light golden ale with a light citrus hop. Pleasant but undemanding.
UK	Cambridge Moonshine	Gladiator Spelt	3	The first English beer made of spelt in modern times. A session bitter with a wateriness that makes it light and refreshing without feeling bland.
UK	Camerons	Monkey Stout	3	Dark beer with a tar feel. Heavy with a gentle roasted malt in the mix and a mild dry bitter finish. The mouthfeel is akin to stout with a whisper of chocolate. Slightly bland.
France	Canardou	Biere Aux Noix	5	Beer with nuts! It's nutty aroma prepares you for it's sweet honey nut flavour with a light caramel malt flavour in the background. Strongly flavoured and cloudy with sediment with the sweetness of a wheat beer, rather than it feeling sugary or syrupy. Very moreish and very well balanced.
France	Canardou	La Nonnette	4	Dark Belgian style beer with no head. Has the roasted coffee and liquorice elements of a porter but with a sweetness that lifts it. Full and well rounded. A bitter maltiness lingers in the finish. Punches above it's strength.
Belgium	Cantillion	Grand Cru Broscella	3	Completely flat beer with the distinctive Cantillon musty and citric base. Slightly floral and very sharp. Is likely to be best served with sauerkraut, sausage or spiced meat. A very acquired taste - their gueuze is finer.
Belgium	Cantillion	Gueuze	5	Dry acidic beer with bundles of citrus (grapefruit?) flavour. Has an odd sweetness on the back of the tongue, but not at the front as there is little sugar. Swiftly develops a deep and balanced taste as you drink it.
Belgium	Cantillion	Iris	3	A sharp and bitter beer that proved to be very astringent at the first run, though there is definitely something interesting going on behind the big citrus hit. My tastebuds aren't quite ready for it yet.
Belgium	Cantillion	Kriek Lambic	5	Zing, zing, zing. A fruity and sharp beer with big hits of cherry and grapefruit (or at least the distinctive Cantillon taste) followed by a deeper interesting after taste. One to enjoy slowly but a very impressive cherry beer. Also tried at 3 years old when the deeper taste had faded - still good but better when drunk young.
Belgium	Cantillion	Rose de Gambrinus	4	Sour, musty cherry beer with a sharp citrus note to it. Like the gueuze it has a distinctive full taste that is disconcerting at first but grows into a fuller, balanced flavour as you continue.
UK	Carlsberg	Special Brew	2	Strong pale gold beer with a sour alcoholic edge with some vinegary fruit. Very soon it becomes distressingly bland.
Italy	Castello	Birra Pedavena	3	Crisp Italian lager with a dry bitter edge that doesn't kill it's refreshment.
Italy	Castello	Premium	2	Cheap Italian lager that tastes like (hey!) cheap lager. Drinkable but not anything special in the slightest.
Italy	Castello	Rosso	1	In short, unpleasant. Not worth drinking even if bought by accident.
UK	Castle Rock	Great Crested Glebe	3	Golden ale with gentle bitter taste.
UK	Castle Rock	Preservation Fine Ale	4	Reddish brown ale with a gentle taste - very drinkable.
France	Castlelain	Ch'ti Ambree	3	Earthy, rustic biere du garde with a hoppy yaste, a hint of orange peel and a gassy feel. Good, but not quite to my taste.
France	Castlelain	Ch'ti Brune	4	Smooth dark beer with a gentle fruity caramel aftertaste. Very pleasing in a unchallenging way.
Belgium	Caulier	Bon Secours Blonde	3	Cloudy gold beer that smells of honey on crumpets. The taste is initially flat then the finish explodes with sour raspberries, hops and yeast. A bit dry and weird to appeal but it is at least interesting.
Belgium	Caulier	Bon Secours Brune	3	Dark with a small creamy head. Alcoholic and fruity in flavour with a sherry and meths finish and a dash of sour bitterness. A tad overpowering but drinkable and not lacking in character.
France	Champs	La Gatine Ambree	4	Strong cloudy amber beer with a creamy and gassy mouthfeel alongside rustic hints of a biere de garde and a Belgian triple. The taste is dry hopped with toffee apples and a dash of warming alcohol.
Thailand	Chang	Lager	2	Bland but functional lager.
UK	Chiltern	Chiltern Ale	3	Light brown ale with a slightly sweet taste. Very easy drinking.
Belgium	Chimay	Chimay Blanche (Cinq Cents)	2	Blonde gassy beer with a bitter hoppy taste.In the end it is neither fish nor fowl.
Belgium	Chimay	Chimay Bleue (Grand Reserve)	4	Dark and heavy beer with a strong kick and slight fruity sweetness. A slight gassy edge lightens the beer without disturbing it's rounded flavours.
Belgium	Chimay	Chimay Rouge (Premiere)	3	Gassy, light spiced brown beer that lacks the depth of something like that Maredsous 8 but is still fairly good. Has a slightly sour malty aftertaste.
Belgium	Christofele	Dubbel	2	Overly yeasty, gassy, sour beer that tastes a little like the sick of someone who has been drinking bitter. Tastes better with meat, which brings out a spiciness.
France	Christopher Noyon (2 Caps)	Noire De Slack	5	Pitch black beer with a frothy tan head. Creamy and gassy in equal measure with a rich posterish coffee ground taste. There is a deep hoppiness and a hint of sweet berry flavours in the background. Not too strong either. Very impressive.
UK	Church End	Boston Fat Boy	3	Pale yellow beer made with green hops. Drinkable but nothing special.
UK	Church End	Vicars Ruin	3	Straightforward golden ale with a gentle hoppy citrus edge to the taste. Fairly non descript and not to my taste.
India	Cobra	Premium	3	Clean, dry lager with little gas. Unsurprisingly goes well with curries but a bit bland on it's own.
France	Colomba	Biere Blanche De Corse	4	Unpasturised white lager with maquis herbs from the only Corsican brewery. Very pale cloudy yellow colour. Gently flavoured with a subtle smooth balance of lemon vanilla, pepper, strawberry and juniper. Serve cold on a hot day.
UK	Concertina	Bengal Tiger	2	Watery light amber beer with a gentle maltiness that is overpowered by an orange flavour that makes it feel like someone has poured orange squash into your beer.
UK	Coniston	Bluebird	2	Bright, citric beer with a light gold colour and a very thin laced head. Becomes too dry and thin in the end.
Australia	Coopers	Best Extra Stout	2	Dark stout with an incredibly tan head. Fairly bland with a burnt taste and a dry chalky finish. There is a hint of espresso and a suprising gassiness for a stout.
Belgium	Cornelius	Bruges Bier	4	Blonde beer that tastes a lot like a triple. The gentle carbonation fades to reveal a beer with a blend of hop and citrus fruit flavours. Well balanced and refreshing with a gentle bitter finish.
UK	Cotleigh	Monument	3	Light coloured ale with a slightly watery sour taste.
UK	Cotswold Brewing Co	3.8 Lager	4	Straw coloured lager with a fading frothy head. A light and refreshing lager with a citrus edge and a pronouced hoppy aroma. A shining example to Becks, Grolsch et al on how to do a weaker lager.
UK	Cotswold Brewing Co	Premium Lager	4	Brewed to the german purity laws this lager is pale gold in colour with no head and a light carbonation. It is mildy crisp with a full bodied hoppy taste (liberty and hersbrucker) and a hint of onion. Slightly dry and bitter In the aftertaste. A great example of an english lager.
UK	Cotswold Brewing Co	Wheat Beer	3	Cloudy bright yellow wheat beer with no head that the brewers claim is made in the style of a berlin style beer. Quite sweet and lemony in taste without tasting like an alcopop. Could have more depth but very refreshing.
UK	Cottage	Broadgauge	2	Chestnut coloured ale with a nutty processed taste that is on the dry side.
UK	Cottage	Goldrush	2	Sharp, citrus (slightly washing up liquid) gold coloured ale with a hint of apple. Somewhat thin for it's 5% strength.
UK	Cottage	Western Star	3	Porter with a coffee edge that glides down nicely
UK	Crabbie's	Ginger Beer	4	A landslide of German all spice and ginger. Has a warm tingle to it as the ginger dances on your tongue. You wouldn't want to drink too much of it.
UK	Crouch Vale	Amarillo	2	Premium' golden ale with synthetic citrus taste that veers too close to fairy liquid.
UK	Crouch Vale	Crouch Best	3	Chestnut brown ale with a light hoppy taste that sours a little but slips down easily. A solid session beer.
Australia	Crown	Lager	2	Sour tasting Austrailian beer with a hint of liqoourice.
UK	Daleside	Special Bitter	2	Thin, sharp and slightly acid beer with a dry citrus hop. The creamy head helps to fill out the flavour but it is not enough. Light amber in colour.
UK	Dark Star	Expresso	4	Pure expresso on the aroma. The taste is big on coffee with a hint of bitter chocolate. Despite it's dark taste it is not too heavy at 4.2%. Has coffee beans mixed in.
UK	Dark Star	Hophead Extra	3	Smooth straw coloured beer with a citric hoppy taste. Well balanced and a good smooth session beer with a nice lingering bitterness.
UK	Davenport	Fox's Nob	3	Amber coloured bitter with a dash of apricot on the aroma. Dry, bitter hops in the taste with a gentle fruity creaminess that rounds it off nicely. A good English session bitter.
UK	Davenport	Witches Brew	2	Watery light coloured bitter with a gentle malty flavour. A bit thin and chemical but not too bad. Forgettable.
Belgium	de Dolle Brothers	Ara Bier	3	Light and bright beer with a sharp dry hoppy taste and a citrus and orange edge. A gassy mouthfeel and slowly develops a corriander aftertaste. Best suited to a summers day for when you want something to pep you up, but overall a little confused.
Belgium	de Dolle Brothers	Bos Keun	2	Bitter, gassy amber ale with a florally sweet edge to it. Very interesting but not to my taste.
Belgium	De Koninck	Pale Ale	3	Light ruby golden ale that is similar to an English IPA. Lightly hopped and very smooth.
Belgium	De Koninck	Winterkoninck	3	Light brown beer with hints of pear drops, nail varnish and a metallic tang. Has an alcoholic edge but a thin main taste. 6.5% in strength.
Belgium	De Proef	Reinaert Tripel	5	Intensely buttery, caramel Belgian tripel which develops a fuller flavour. Striking and very tasty.
Belgium	De Troch	Chapeau Banana	2	Smells of bananas, tastes of pear drops. Too sweet, too chemical and tastes of penny sweets. Improves the more you drink, but too unbalanced.
Belgium	de Zenne	Betchard Blonde	4	The draught beer of t'Spinokoepke - a restaurant specialising in beer cuisine. Light, sharp and gassy. Seems to go well with food as a bracing palette cleanser.
UK	Deuchars	IPA	3	Sharp bitter tasting dry-hopped fizzy IPA with a slight citrus edge. May prove too dry for prolonged drinking. Nice and light tasting at 4.4%
Germany	Diebels	Altbier	4	Copper coloured German ale with a bready yeasty smell. Starts out with a taste like and English Christmas ale with strong malt and plum fruity tastes. Further tasting allows the gentle carbonation to provide a building sourness with a hint of tea in the dry aftertaste. Would be improved if were smoother to allow the malt and fruity flavours to shine through but would make a good session beer.
UK	Donnington	SBA	3	A bitter ale that tastes like a nicer John Smith's
UK	Dorset BC	Chesil Ale	3	Dry and bitter light pilsner that is similar to Tuborg.
UK	Dorset BC	Durdle Door	5	Strong bitter with a slightly sweet taste that leads into a big hoppy finish. A slight bitterness creeps in at the end. Well balanced, well judged and very enjoyable.
UK	Dorset BC	Jurrasic	3	Soapy bitter that slides down well on a warm summer day. Nothing particularly distinguished about it though.
UK	Downton	Chimera Dark Delight	4	A seasonal winter ale which has a chunky hoppy taste with a smooth edge. Subtle tastes of chocolate and coffee are evident. Somewhere between a stout and a premium bitter.
Belgium	Drie Fountain	Oude Gueuze	5	Dry, lemony beer with a base and colour that has elements of cider. More highly carbonated than other gueuze I've tried. Akin to Cantillon Gueuze but far cleaner, without the musty haze to the flavour. Bright with great depths of flavour. A superb beer that is highly recommended though maybe not as much as the Girardin or Cantillon.
Belgium	Drie Fountain	Oude Kriek	4	Dry, fruity cherry beer with a sour and bitter edge. Oddly not really sweet at all.
Belgium	Du Bocq	Corsendonk Agnus (Abbey Pale Ale)	3	Light gassy blonde beer with a massive frothy head and a typically Belgian spicy flavour. Very pleasant and easy drinking but nothing stunning.
Belgium	Du Bocq	Deuginet	3	Smooth blonde beer with a herbal twist. Not too gassy or dry.
Belgium	Dubisson	Bush Ambree	2	"The strongest beer in Belgium". Potent, almost vinegary brew with a bitter edge and little going on.
Belgium	Dubisson	Bush Scaldis Noel	3	Amber beer with elements of fruit, melting butter, dairy and gentle toffee apple in the background and maybe a hint of brandy with an alcoholic edge. 12% in strength but much nicer than Bush Ambree.
Belgium	Dupont	Blanche Du Hainaut	4	Belgian white beer that has a slight fruity sharpness and a hint of wheat in the base that fills out that taste. A strong flavour without being a particularly high percentage (5.5%). Made organically and better than the benchmark.
Belgium	Dupont	Moinette Brune	4	From the off, roasted malt and caramel flavours are battling for attention in this ale that has bitterness lifted with a hint of sugary sweetness. The finish has a slight dryness. The head does not linger too long. A beautiful balance.
Belgium	Dupont	Saison	3	Has much in common with a wheat beer in both colour and taste. Slight spiciness, mild gassiness but generally a smooth drink.
UK	Durham	Bede's Chalice	2	Overpowered ale that is 9% and not shy about the fact. Amber in colour with a fast fading head. The taste is warming alcohol and tangy malt with zero complexity. Makes you think the English should leave strong beer to Belgians.
UK	Durham	Temptation	3	Pitch black beer with a very deep tar and coffee flavour and a hint of chocolate in the aroma. The mouthfeel is flat and heavy. There is something metallic and oily in the background.
France	Duyck	Jenlain 6	4	Straw coloured beer with a lingering smidge of head. It has a full bodied rustic hoppy taste balanced with a sweet hint of caramel and apples. It fizzes on the top of your mouth to give a pleasing mouthfeel. Dangerously easy to drink for it's strength and a restrained experience for all it's depth with a quiet finish.
France	Duyck	Jenlain Ambree	5	Strong (7.5% abv) top fermented beer made with 3 types of hops grown in the Alsace. The taste is reminiscent of a dark, malty, Czech lager and is very, very nice.
France	Duyck	Jenlain Noel	5	A fruitier flavour than the regular Jenlain and very nice.
Austria	Egger	Marzen	3	Brewed to the German purity law this Austrian Marzen beer is gold in colour with a restrained maltiness that nonetheless makes itself evident early on. A bitter hoppiness pokes it's head round that door about 75% of the way through a pint to add a little depth. Moderately gassy, slightly above average but nothing special.
Iceland	Egils	El Grillo	3	Icelandic export lager. Gassy with a bitter hoppy base. Well rounded and enjoyable, though nothing special.
Iceland	Egils	Gull	2	Uncomplicated and fairly generic lager with a gentle taste of icelandic barley. Not bad, just too bland for it's 5% strength.
Iceland	Egils	Malt Extrakt	3	The low alcohol beer that the drinkers of Iceland had to make do with until full strength beer was made legal in March 1989. Dark, malty and sweet - it is basically rye bread in a glass. Fair enough stuff but not exactly subtle.
Iceland	Egils	Maltbjor	3	Gassy dark mahogany beer with a malty taste, a fruity note in the background and a hint of warming alcohol. Would benefit from being less gassy to allow the flavour to come through more.
Belgium	Ellezelloise	Hercule Stout	5	Dark, deep, almost marmite tasting beer which is possibly the greatest 'treacle' beer around. Too potent for regular drinking but it's burnt taste is something stunning.
Belgium	Ellezelloise	Quintine Ambree	5	Dark amber beer with a thick body, deep caramel flavour and a slow building bitterness. It has a roasted caramel aroma and deep spiced corriander finish and a nice sweet edge. An intoxicating (8.5%) spiced toffee apple of a beer.
Belgium	Ellezelloise	Quintine Blonde	5	A beer with a big fruity flavour undercut with a lagerish bitterness and a slight spiciness. Strong but not overpowering. Equally good on it's own or with food. Very impressive.
Belgium	Ellezelloise	Saisis	4	Fruity Belgium wheat beer with a hoppy aroma. Fairly weak (5.9%) in comparison to many Belgium beers but certainly not lacking in taste and more easily drinkable than many.
Germany	Erdinger	Alkoholfrei (Blue)	3	Sweet and tangy beer which compares well with beers that are not alcohol free.
Germany	Erdinger	Dunkel (Black)	3	Dark wheat beer with a smooth taste whose sweetness makes it feel light and a touch bland. Pleasant but unexciting.
Germany	Erdinger	Pikantus (Gold)	3	A smooth 'dark bock wheat beer' which has a full wheaty feel. It has a sweet roasted aroma but is slightly lacking in depth of flavour for it's strength (7.6%) but generally very pleasant and gently warming.
Germany	Erdinger	Weißbier (White)	3	Smooth German wheat beer with light hint of cloves and a floral, almost honey edge.
Spain	Estrella	Damm	3	Fairly unexciting dry European lager. Not bad.
UK	Everard's	Beacon	3	Hoppy light brown ale with a distinctive taste of chocolate malts. Slightly soapy in the finish. A full bodied and interesting beer.
UK	Felstar	Indian Pig Ale	4	A cruise liner of a beer. Very strong and robust with big hoppy flavours and maybe a dash of coffee too. A little lacking in subtlety but not really brash either. A solid, very solid, beer that fails to excite.
UK	Felstar	Peckin' Order	4	Full flavoured bottle conditioned lager that would hold it's own against the likes of Duvel despite only being 5% in strength. Slightly soapy taste at first but develops a very rounded mouthfeel. Tried when 8 months out of date.
France	Fischer	Adelscott	5	A malty beer whose taste is finished off by an edge of smooth blended whisky. Lighter than Innis & Gunn it has a broader range of flavours (though not as much as the rum cask). When tasted from a can it is smokier with a more processed flavour and not as nice.
France	Fischer	Tradition	4	Malty golden lager with little head but a slight creaminess that gives it body. There is a light bitterness in the finish. Well balanced and full flavoured.
Austria	Fischer Brau	Helles	3	Gentle, gassy, unfiltered lager with a cloudy light gold colour. The flavour has a hint of lemon and the faintest waft of hops. A breadiness slowly develops. Refreshing, but like a toned down, gassed up version of their superior Weiss beer.
Austria	Fischer Brau	Osterbock	3	Solid, light amber beer with a faint hoppiness, a gentle gassiness and with a trace of bitterness in the end. Pleasant but a bit shy and retiring.
Austria	Fischer Brau	Weiss	5	Light yellow, cloudy wheat beer with a gentle lemon and banana flavour that is not very sharp and feels quite natural. Fantastically refreshing and with a suprising lightness for something with the mouthfeel of a typical wheatbeer, possibly due to having having a slight gassiness in place of the usual bready head. Incredibly drinkable.
Germany	Flensberger	Gold	3	Gentle golden beer with a slightly sour, bready, honey taste. not very gassy. OK, but not exceptional.
USA	Flying Dog	Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale	3	Dry hopped pale ale with a gentle bitter aftertaste. Decent body without feeling heavy. Well balanced and typical of the American pale ale style.
USA	Flying Dog	Dogtoberfest	3	American take on a marzen. Malty and quite bitter with a hoppy base. Fairly dry and flat. Well rounded.
USA	Flying Dog	Garde Dog	4	A US take on a biere de garde. Smooth, IPA hoppy with a dark agricultural edge and a dash of porter. Smooth tasty and well balanced.
USA	Flying Dog	Old Scratch	4	Dark and fruitily bitter amber ale. Like a Belgian Dubbel but without the kick.
USA	Flying Dog	Snake Dog IPA	3	Sweet and hoppy IPA that has a smooth foretaste followed by a rougher lagerish aftertaste. An interesting beer but there are finer IPAs available.
UK	Fox	Bullet	3	Slightly hoppy sweet ale with a dry lingering aftertaste.
UK	Fox	Mr Tod	3	Dry hoppy beer. Fairly gentle and pleasant enough for session drinking.
UK	Fox	Old Hushwing	4	Straw coloured with a fast fading head. The aroma has a light spice note which is joined by citrus to give a Belgian feel to this British ale. Light in strength and subtle but complex in flavour. Very refreshing.
Germany	Franziskaner	Weissbier	3	Rather fruity tasting wheat beer with a very strong kick - drink carefully.
UK	Fullers	George Gale Seafarers Ale	2	Amber ale with a very light malty flavour that is hidden behind a bland zesty soapiness. Gentle, dry and underwhelming.
UK	Fullers	Golden Pride	2	Strong, tangy, malty beer with a slight orangey edge. Sour and overpowered - nearly undrinkable.
UK	Fullers	Honeydew	3	Light and sweet almost lagerish golden ale with the slightest honey edge. Refreshing but a tad bland.
UK	Fullers	London Porter	4	Incredibly full bodied black porter with big hits of peat and coffee. Dark, deep and satisfying.
UK	Fullers	London Pride	3	Slightly hoppy, slightly processed amber ale with a faint nuttiness that is a solid benchmark beer but isn't anything special. A decent fallback with nothing in the finish.
France	Garrigues	La Belle En Goguette Blonde	4	Blonde, pilsnerish beer with a hit of bitter hoppiness leading to a dry finish. Fairly heavy bodied like a wheat beer, with a slightly rough edge. Gold in colour with an enduring head.
France	Garrigues	Nuit De Goguette	3	Dark, porterish beer with a creamy ivory head. Dominated by a roasted coffee flavour, with the merest hints of something fruity buried in the background. It has little complexity to distinguish it, espeacially for it's 7% strength.
France	Garrigues	Saison des amours	4	Dark amber seasonal beer with a sharp edge and a coffee taste in the initial hit that fades into an agricultural hoppiness then a lingering smooth fruity aftertaste.
France	Gayant	Abbaye de St Landelin La Divine	3	Akin to a Belgian triple but with a crisp bite. Full bodied, gently gassy yet lingeringly smooth with an understated woody malt taste. Light gold/amber in colour and 8.5% in strength. Lacks the complexity of it's best Belgian counterparts and too strong for session drinking but generally a good beer.
France	Gayant	Goudale	4	Sturdy, rustic blonde biere du garde with a robust malty flavour and slight carbonation. Would make a good slow drinking session beer, even at 7% in strength.
Belgium	Girrardin	Framboise	3	Very sweet raspberry beer with a the fruit dominating the lambic taste to it's detriment.
Belgium	Girrardin	Gueuze 1882	5	Sharp and sour beer with a fruity note and little if any sweetness. Very impressive and very interesting. Truly one to savour.
Belgium	Girrardin	Kriek	5	Fruity, sharp cherry beer with a gorgeous lambic base. Not quite as good as Cantillon Kriek, but very, very good.
UK	Glastonbury	Hedge Monkey	3	Deep amber coloured ale that starts out with an interesting bitter woody taste that becomes yeasty and watery in the finish.
UK	Glastonbury	Love Monkey	3	Light amber ale with a watery, hoppy bitterness that eventually has a hint of caramel. Unremarkable but perfectly fine.
UK	Goffs	Excalibur	2	Light soapy ale that isn't objectional but is fairly bland.
UK	Goffs	Launcelot	3	Sour beer with a brief cherry note to it. Tasty if slightly challenging.
UK	Goffs	Merlin	2	A straw coloured hoppy bitter whose taste didn't sit well with me.
UK	Goffs	White Knight	2	Light coloured bitter that is typical of the brewery. Not very nice.
USA	Goose Island	IPA	3	Dry, bitter and hoppy pale ale with a malty tang that emerges in the finish. Light amber in colour with a creamy white head and a dash of citrus in the nose. A typical US IPA.
UK	Grafton	Lady Mary	2	Watery light amber ale faint bitter fragrant hop taste. Nothing much going on and suprisingly bland for a 5% beer.
UK	Grainstore	Pride Of Scotgate	2	A soapy hoppy beer that doesn't particularly appeal.
Germany	Granascher	Weissen	3	Fruity, corriander beer with a bit of banana in the taste. Slightly odd and unlikely to go with anything but quite nice for a fairly fruity beer.
USA	Great Divide	Yeti Imperial Stout	4	Oily black beer with a tan head this feels at first to be more like a barley wine than a stout. The taste is an assault of malt, stewed fruit, raw warming alcohol and a dash of caramel. Sweet & bitter. Strong & assured.
UK	Greene King	Abbot Ale	3	Thin beer with just enough hoppiness and character to make it worth drinking, though it has a processed edge to it.
UK	Greene King	IPA	2	Thin, creamy beer with a processed taste. Poor without being offensive.
UK	Greene King	Morland Old Speckled Hen	3	Traditional amber English ale with little to particular distinguish it. Pleasant enough though.
UK	Greene King	St Edmund	2	Golden, dry looking bitter with a thin and processed taste. Offered with a "northern" or "southern" head on draught
UK	Greene King	Strong Suffolk Vintage Ale	4	Fruity, dry and bitter with coffee elements to it. Dark and very strong but still quite smooth with a steadily building caramel taste. A blend of Old 5X and BPA. Would benefit from a bit more complexity as it pales slightly in the second half of a pint.
Austria	Grieskirchner	Export Dunkle	4	Unusually for a dunkle this is not black. Instead it is dark amber, almost mahogony coloured beer with a sweet malty flavour that leaves an aftertaste of runny caramel. Light and drinkable without compromising on flavour.
Mexico	Grupo Modelo	Corona	4	Robust and refreshing mexican lager where the gimmick of sticking a wedge of lime in the top actually offsets the taste of the beer very well. One of the better bottled beers widely available at British bars.
Mexico	Grupo Modelo	Negra Modello	4	Originally brewed in Mexico by emigre Austrian brewers Mahogony/amber coloured solid, full but not overly flavoured beer with a gentle fruity / caramel maltiness and a light bitterness but little aftertaste.
Ireland	Guinness	Draught	5	More a landmark for the Irish Tourist Board than a beer these days, trying to assess the taste of Guinness is like trying to comment on whether the Taj Mahal is a good place to live. As with most popular global beer brands Guinness is very smooth and has a gentle taste to it, however it's balanced dry taste is subtle and rewarding rather than bland. A legend that can live with it's hype.
Ireland	Guinness	Foreign Extra Stout	2	Dark, exceptionally dry and sour beer with liqourice and chocolate. Apparently the closest you can get to the "original taste of Guinness. Brewed for John Martin in Belgium. A very acquired taste.
Holland	Gulpner	Korenwolf	3	Solid German wheat beer that doesn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Holland	Gulpner	Rose	1	Somewhat artificial tasting strawberry flavoured wheat beer. Brewed for the alco-pops market and taste of pick and mix. Contains E numbers and is best described as a tacky and slutty beer.
Belgium	Haacht	Charles Quint Ruby Red	3	A creamy sour aroma is overtaken by a bitter burnt (soy sauce) taste. A slight fruitiness lingers in the background. Somewhat dry in the finish.
Belgium	Haacht	Tongerlo Blonde	3	Slightly cloudy straw coloured beer with a small creamy head. Quite crisp whilst yeasty, wheaty with a edge. The aroma has cold baked beans. Traditional blonde Belgian fare but a tad forgetable.
Belgium	Haacht	Tongerlo Brune	3	Dark beer with a light taste that belies it's 6.5% strength. Quite Fizzy, honey and wheat on the nose, a gentle roasted taste. A good session beer, but it's really a bit strong for that.
Belgium	Halve Maan	Bruges Zot Brune	3	Dark coloured Belgian dubbel with a gentle taste of roasted malts dominant on the palate. There is an alcoholic edge to the aroma and flavour but the beer still tastes weaker than it is. A tad too bland for it's strength.
Belgium	Halve Maan	Brugse Zot Blonde	3	Spicy blonde beer with a steadily building gassinees. A typical spiced Belgian beer that doesn't quite distinguish itself from the crowd. Also available unfiltered at the brewery which makes it smoother and brings out a orange peel taste in the finish as it warms.
UK	Hambleton	Dark Knight	3	Watery session beer with a bitter malty taste.
UK	Hambleton	Taylor's Tipple	3	Crisp citrus hopped ale with a golden colour and a creamy head. A refreshing session beer with a malty finish that becomes dry and hoppy.
Belgium	Hanssens	Oude Gueuze	4	Very spritzy lambic beer with a tart grapefruit edge. There is a slightly dry sourness in the finish that doesn't stop it being very refreshing. Akin to a sweet cider with great depth.
UK	Harveys	Imperial Extra Double Stout	4	Dark like engine oil with a small tan head. A slightly syrupy taste with a big meaty, bovril edge to it. Lacks rounded and a range of flavours but a distinctive and unusual beer that is smoother than the 9% strength would have you think. Brewed under license in the UK.
UK	Harviestone	Bitter and Twisted	2	Blonde beer that tastes of hops smothered in lemony washing up liquid.
UK	Harviestoun	Ola Dubh Highland Park 18	4	Black oil beer natured in whisky casks. Dark, gloopy and viscous with a heavy peaty whisky flavour married to a treacle mouthfeel. At 8% the beer feels stronger than it is but without the alcoholic kick compromising the flavour. Truly a beer that has the feel of whisky. It's toffee and almond notes are deeply buried but the malty smoky aftertaste is unmistakeable.
UK	Hawkshead	Bitter	2	A fairy liquid beer with a chemical citrus taste and little if no bitterness.
UK	Hawkshead	Brodie's Prime	5	Profoundly deep and dark tasting with a sharp fruit aftertaste. One to savour on it's own.
UK	Hawkshead	Lakeland Gold	4	A hoppy golden ale that gets it's flavour from a mix of English and American hops.
Italy	Heineken	Birra Moretti	3	Lager with a slighty dry bitter edge that is similar to Sans Souci.
Germany	Heineken	Furstenberg Gold	2	A beer that tastes of pot pourri and wet cats. Not enough flavour and virtually no aftertaste. Stronger than you think.
Belgium	Heineken	Hapkin	3	Perfumed aroma with yeast and citrus tastes and a dry chalky finish. An interesting mix but it rapidly feels flat. Apparently a Duvel copy, but it is fairly distinct.
UK	Heineken	McEwans Champion	3	Scotch ale with a brandy edge and a slightly fruity edge with hints of marmite. Looses it's strong taste to a dry gassy bitterness as you go.
Italy	Heineken	Moretti Sans Souci	3	Solid Italian lager with a slight dry bitterness.
Slovakia	Heineken	Zlaty Bazant	2	The 'golden pheasant' bills itself as Slovakia's original beer. It was first brewed by the state in 1968 but has been under the control of Heineken since 1995. It seems popular with the locals but is just a moderately gassy pilsner with a gentle dry hoppy taste that doesn't distinguish itself from the crowd.
UK	Hesket Newmarket	High Pike	2	The bitter and malty aftertaste becomes too much
UK	Hidden	Hidden Pleasure	1	Tangy citrus beer with a vinegar finish. Quite possibly off when tasted.
UK	Highgate	Old Ale	3	Strong (5.6%) dark, smooth English ale with a gentle malty bitter taste that would make for good session drinking. Could have more flavour for it's strength.
UK	Hobsons	Old Henry	3	Dark brown English strong ale with a clear coffee/porter taste that floats over a hoppy ale base. A good robust beer that doesn't feel heavy.
UK	Hobsons	Postman's Knock	5	Dark smooth hoppy beer with a chocolate malt flavour in the background. Very drinkable and quite mild in flavour.
UK	Hobsons	Town Crier	4	Straw coloured ale with a light and well rounded taste.
UK	Hogs Back	Burma Star Ale	3	Bitter pale ale that goes very well with a hearty soup.
UK	Hogs Back	OTT (Old Tongham Tasty)	4	Smooth as silk. Dark as night. Strong and tasty without being overpowering. A fine example of a dark winter ale.
UK	Holdens	Black Country Mild	3	Mild with a chocolate aftertaste. Gets better as you get through the first half.
UK	Holdens	Black Country Mild	3	Light rounded ale with a good hoppy bite and a good amount of flavour.
UK	Holdens	Golden Glow	3	Crisp hoppy golden ale with a light dryness.
Germany	Holsten	Pils	3	Clean, hoppy lager with reasonable body and a slight dry bitterness. It's pilsner taste is quite gentle.
Austria	Honner	Pfutzl Brau	3	A hoppy Austrian Marzen lager with a fairly high carbonation and a light bitterness. Lacks the crisp dry edge of many lagers but is fairly well rounded and does a decent job of framing the hops.
UK	Hook Norton	Double Stout	3	Smooth stout with a deep coffee taste that has had the bite taken off. Good for an easy drinking stout that retains a depth of flavour.
UK	Hook Norton	Haymaker	3	Smooth IPA with a dry hoppy aftertaste and the slightest hint of citrus. Possibly a little too dry.
UK	Hook Norton	Hooky Bitter	4	Dark golden bitter with a lingering creamy head. A slight hoppy aroma leads into a morish dry malty and bitter taste. There is a slight gassiness that gives a good balance. It goes well with salty pub snacks. A great session beer.
UK	Hook Norton	Hooky Gold	3	Golden ale with little or no head. Bone dry and quite crisp with a hint of citrus hops and a lingering bitterness. Well suited to a warm summers day when you aren't desperate for refreshment. The aroma has a faint spiciness.
UK	Hook Norton	Old Hooky	3	Fruity amber coloured ale that starts off with a big taste but quickly settles down. Would make an enjoyable light session beer but a little underwhelming if drunk in small measures.
UK	Hook Norton	Twelve Days	3	Dark bitter ale with a light caramel and fruit aftertaste and a gentle sparkling fizz.
UK	Hopshackle	Historic Porter	5	Deep coffee tasting porter with a taste of damsons. Strongly flavoured by very good when you are in the mood for something dark.
Germany	Hovels	Original Bitterbier	5	A hoppy, top fermented beer from Northern Rhineland. Amber coloured, hoppy and citrus smelling, strongly malty with some caramel and bready undertones and dark raisiny fruits. Semi-dry, bitter finish.
UK	Howard Town	Monk's Gold	5	Amber ale with a sharp edge
Belgium	Huyghe	Delerium Christmas (Noel)	2	Dry, syrupy beer with a distinct alcoholic edge (10%) and a faint spicy edge that is buried in the background. Very disapointing in comparison to their other beers.
Belgium	Huyghe	Delerium Tremens	4	Pure bonkers juice. Strong 9% spicy blonde ale that chases around your brain, but not in a bad way (unless you need to do anything complicated afterwards).
Belgium	Huyghe	Floris Chocolate	3	It has the aroma of Jaffa Cakes but a slightly more subdued taste. Definately a novelty beer but if treated like a Cointreau and Kahlua cocktail that it's not bad at all.
Belgium	Huyghe	Floris Honey	2	Basically it's a honey and syrup cough medicine with a sharp ainseed aftertaste. Very interesting but basically unpleasant and too sweet.
Belgium	Huyghe	La Guillotine	4	Massively potent beer that hits in you like a fish round the face. Straw coloured beer in the vein of Duvel that messes with your head like Delrium Tremens, with a similar herby edge.
UK	Hyde's	Trojan Horse	4	Light, very easy drinking ale with a gentle hoppy aftertaste.
UK	Idle Brewery	Idle Ale	2	Overly hopped beer that leaves a sour taste. Light colour.
Germany	InBev	Becks Vier	2	Golden larger with a decent size white head. 4% in strength and targeted at those something for a little weaker than continental European beers. It is basically fizz with a hint of beer. Far too tasteless for it's strength - if it was 2% or less it might have a purpose.
Brazil	InBev	Brahma	4	A good "day to day" lager. The taste is gentle enough to good with just about anything, but there is enough flavour and refreshment to drink on it's own.
Belgium	InBev	Eiken Artois	3	The artois take on an oak aged beer. The gassiness overpowers it's malty oaky taste. Not as complex as it could be but pleasant enough.
Belgium	InBev	Hoegaarden	5	The classic modern wheat beer. Light in colour and taste whilst being very cloudy. More refreshing than many of the German wheat beers with an almost floral and aromatic taste with hints of lemon.
Belgium	Inbev	Hoegaarden Rosee	2	Very gassy fruit beer with a massive aroma of shop bought raspberry Gu puddings. The gassiness stops it becoming too sweet but masks much of the flavour. Somewhat akin to fizzy pop but would be pleasant in warm summer weather.
Belgium	InBev	Hoegarden Citron	1	A lemon and lime variant of the famous wheat beer that appears to be aimed at Sprite drinkers. Very sweet and gassy with on depth. It's 3% abv but it may as well be a soft drink.
Belgium	InBev	Jupiler	2	Fairly standard and nondescript lager with a watery hoppy finish. Very light straw coloured with little head.
Belgium	InBev	Leffe 9	3	Strong, soft beer with a foamy banana flavour and a slight alcoholic edge that grows as it warms. Has a touch of the Leffe spiciness in the background.
Belgium	InBev	Leffe Blonde	4	Strong and smooth tasting blonde ale with a deep golden coloured and the slightest edge of fruit and wheat beer to it. Very pleasant to drink steadily with just a hint of blandness to prevent it getting a stronger recommendation.
Belgium	InBev	Leffe Brune	4	Fruity and tangy brown Belgian ale that is fully flavoured without being overpowering.
Argentina	InBev	Quilmes	3	Crisp lager with a discernable hoppiness.
Czech	InBev	Staropramen Lezak	3	Smooth, clean pilsner with a dry, hoppy taste. One of the better mass produced European lagers, but not exceptional.
Belgium	InBev	Stella Artois	3	The "reassuring expensive" beer that is better known to it's brewers chagrin as wifebeater. No longer particularly strong or expensive in today's beer market it remains a decent continental lager with a crisp mouthfeel and enough of a hoppy taste to avoid blandness.
UK	Innis & Gunn	77 day matured Oak Aged Beer	5	Deeper and heavier than the regular Innus and Gunn
UK	Innis & Gunn	Blonde Oak Aged Beer	5	Fruity blonde ale with a hint of vanilla. Very good when chilled.
UK	Innis & Gunn	Oak Aged Beer	5	Full flavoured with a touch of whisky
UK	Innis & Gunn	Rum cask Oak Aged Beer	5	Syrup coloured beer with a huge taste of stewed fruits and spices topped with a hit of rum. It has been matured in rum casks and wooden casks for 107 days. It's taste is like a lighter Westvleteren 12 and almost feels like drinking an aged spirit. A superb beer of rare quality - only available in limited runs.
UK	Innis & Gunn	Triple Matured Oak Aged Beer	4	Strong, smooth and malty beer that doesn't quite have the depth of flavour that the rest of the I&G range has but is still a decent beer in it's own right. Somewhat akin to the strong Belgian beers and barley wine.
UK	Jennings	Cock-A-Hoop	4	Golden Ale with a bitter hoppy taste. From a distance you might think this is a lager but it's full flavour will soon set you right.
UK	Jennings	Cumberland Ale	4	Gentle, pale gold, English ale with a light but well expressed hoppy flavour. A great session beer or relaxing ale. Quite a high carbonation for an ale.
UK	Jennings	Fish King	4	Smooth, golden coloured ale with a gentle blend of hops and malts that is balanced well.
UK	Jennings	Sneck Lifter	5	Beautifully rounded stout with deep coffee and chocolate notes and a bitter finish. There is a slight creaminess to the mouthfeel but it doesn't colour the flavour. Not too heavy but with bundles of flavour. Impressive.
UK	Jennings	World's Biggest Liar	3	Dry and smooth amber ale with a bitter finish
Belgium	John Martin	Bourgogne De Flandres	3	Oak aged, lambic based beer that is a tad thin and artificial. Definately a substitute for the real thing (such as Rodenbach or Duchesse Du Bourgogne).
Belgium	John Martin	Gordon Finest Gold Blond	4	Golden yellow coloured blonde beer with a big sudsy white head and stonking 10% strength. The alcoholic edge is immediate and dominant but is softened with a sweet fruitiness and gentle breadiness (but not yeast). Mellows as it progresses. Better than most beers of it's strength.
Belgium	John Martin	Gordons Xmas Beer	4	Chewy, sweet and tasting of vegemite. A dark and heavy beer with a slight burnt edge. Would taste best when you have just come in from the cold.
Belgium	John Martin	Martin's Pale Ale	4	Dark amber ale with a lager style mouth feel but a bitter malty flavour that is slightly dry but well balanced.
Belgium	John Martin	Timmermanns Kriek	3	Very heady cherry lambic with the cherry flavour being being very dominant and quite, but not overpoweringly, sweet. The gassiness balances it but the lambic base is hard to taste.
Belgium	John Martin	Timmermans Lambic Doux	5	Flat, dry initial taste that is followed by a brief flash of peach and a lingering apple aftertaste.A light faro lambic that is very refreshing with a good depth of flavour. Baffingly brilliant in taste, the experience is enhanced by it being served from an earthenware jug in the A La Becasse bar in Brussels.
Belgium	John Martin	Timmermans Peche	3	Golden coloured, headless fruit lambic beer with a strong gassiness that fights with a sweet peach taste for supremacy. The lambic taste can be felt at the end but the sweetness and gassiness are slightly too much.
UK	Joseph Holt	Humdinger	3	Amber beer with Mexican honey. Hoppy base with a caramel honey tingle that isn't too sweet in the way most honey beers are. It has a bitter finish. Slightly artificial.
UK	Joseph Holt	Maple Moon	3	This beer with 'a hint of maple' comes with theories about the power of the moon. An amber ale with a sweet malty taste that has a dry bitter woody taste of maple that becomes watery. A novelty twist on a standard ale.
UK	JW Lees	Supernova	5	Gentle beer with a surprisingly dark colour for it's taste. Very smooth with biscuit and bitter hoppy flavours lingering in a creamy body. With time it becomes slightly chewy with a faint hint of coffee grounds. At 3.5% a great session beer for winter night if you are after something light but with a bit of flavour to it.
UK	Keswick	Thirst Ascent	3	Light and easy golden bitter that isn't too bland
UK	Keswick	Thirst Rescue	3	A variant of Thirst Ascent with a barely discernable citrus edge to it.
UK	Keswick	Thirst Run	4	Golden pale ale with strong bitter taste and sharp citrus edge. Strongly flavoured but interesting and refreshing.
India	Kingfisher	Kingfisher Lager	2	Smooth, slightly pilsnerish lager with a bright taste. Not as good as Cobra as a beer to go with a curry.
UK	Kingstone	1503	4	A dark ruby ale made to an old Tudor recipe. Very hoppy and smoky with a bitter aftertaste. The malty overtones it claims are very subdued.
UK	Kingstone	Abbey	3	Traditional malty English ale that doesn't stand out.
UK	Kingstone	Bitter	4	Fruity bitter with a good mix of malt and hops and a tingling bitterness in the finish. Develops a slight dryness which suits it.
UK	Kingstone	Challenger Bitter	5	A classic English bitter which is watery brown in colour with no head. Light in strength but will a very full taste thanks to the "generous" amount of Challenger hops used. Very appealing and very refreshing.
UK	Kingstone	Gold	2	Golden ale that is bright, lagerish but overly citric.
UK	Kingstone	Gold	3	Very light golden ale with a gentle, almost honey hop taste and a merest hint of bitterness on the finish. Good summer session fare.
UK	Kingstone	Humpty Fuddle	4	Bottle conditioned amber ale with a frothy head that quickly fades. A little gassier than you would generally expect for a real ale the bitter hoppy flavour emerges soon after. There is a slight floral sourness that hovers over the beer then fades into a bitter aftertaste with an ephemeral flash of cherries. An interesting beer which doesn't quite have the balance it needs but has more to it than your average beer.
UK	Kingstone	Premium Stout	3	Light stout with a clean hoppy taste and only a light bitter coffee ground base.
UK	Kingstone	Tewdric's Tipple	2	Clear amber ale that is dry and citric.
Japan	Kirin	Ichiban	3	Dry Japanese lager similar to Asahi. Brewed from "first press" only, but under license in this country by Charles Wells.
Germany	Kloster Andechs	Doppelbock Dunkel	4	A dark Bavarian lager with a great range of flavours comprimised by it's strength. It has a deep mahogony colour with aromas of roasted malts, chocolate cake and fudge. The taste initially has a roasted porter edge leading in to a sweet fruity body before finishing with toasted malts and chocolate. The alcoholic edge is evident and obscures the flavours but there is still enough left to heartily enjoy. A good winter warmer.
Holland	Koningshoeven	La Trappe Blonde	5	Gassy, blonde beer with a smooth but full bodied taste with a hint of spices. Very potent but with a subtle blend of flavours.
Holland	Koningshoeven	La Trappe Dubbel	4	Chunky dark Dutch Trappist beer. Smooth yet slightly unrefined and unexceptional. Certainly not bland or lacking in flavour though.
Holland	Koningshoeven	La Trappe Quadruple	3	At 10% this is a strong beer and unfortunately it feels a little overpowered. It has a malty taste but lacks the depth and subtlety that a beer of this strength needs. There are certainly far worse strong beers and it doesn't taste bad but you are better having 2 regular strength beers.
Holland	Koningshoeven	La Trappe Tripel	5	Banana tasting, slightly wheaty trappist beer that slips down very easily despite it's 8% strength.
Holland	Koningshoeven	La Trappe Wheat	4	Creamy beer which has a wheat beer edge with a slight sweetness to it. Not the breweries best but very drinkable.
France	Kronenbourg	1664 Blanc	2	Lemony yellow, cloudy beer with a small white head that gives a lot of lacing. Very gassy with a sweet lemon flavour that dominates the taste. It is almost as if someone has poured lemonade into the beer. Light and refreshing but a decent lemonade like Fentimans would be better.
France	Kronenbourg	1664 Premier Cru	3	Supposedly lovingly crafted by master brewers with the finest ingredients. In reality it is like the regular 1664 with less corner cutting and a higher alcohol content. It has a malty toffee taste soured with slightly too much of an alcoholic edge.
France	Kronenbourg	Wilfort Brune	3	Traditional brown European beer with an average taste.
Sweden	Kronleins	Crocodile	3	Straight ahead lager. Slightly crisp with a watery hoppy taste. OK but not exceptional.
Czech	Krusovice	Dark Beer (Cerne)	4	Dark chocolate lager with slight hints of fruit (cherry, raspberry?). Very smooth with a coffee taste when drunk warm. Fairly light and gentle at 3.8%
Czech	Krusovice	Imperial	3	Slightly floral lager that has a full bodied ale style taste but lacking distinction.
Germany	Kulmbacher	Eisbock	4	Stunning strong tasting dark beer (9.2%) which is freeze concentrated to increase it's strength. It has a strong figgy, fruity, caramel taste with a lingering malty alcoholic after taste. Akin to a strong Belgian brune such as Maredsous, the alcoholic edge verges on the overpowering but it doesn't quite become too much.
France	La Chouette	Ambree	3	Malty dark amber beer with more bitterness than most French beers. Has a slight taste hovering on top and a gentle background carbonation.
France	La Chouette	Blonde	2	Light amber ale with an aroma of cheap whisky (or Southern Comfort). It has a chemical adultered malty taste that is sharp and short. Dissapointing.
France	Lancelot	Duchesse Anne	5	Straw coloured, bottle fermented ale with a big creamy head. It has a malty herbal sweetness like a Belgian triple, a slight foamy corriander note, wheaty mouthfeel & banana aroma. Well balanced & light for a 6% abv beer.
France	Lancelot	Telenn Du	5	Dark beer with a burnt aroma. Combines the bitter coffee ground taste of a porter with a wheat beer smoothness at a very drinkable 4.5%.
France	Le Moulin De Saint Martin	Blanche	5	Very light coloured wheat beer with a slightly cloudiness that begins with a gentle taste and has flavours of caramel and malty as you get towards the end. A pleasingly restrained beer that sits well alongside food rather than overpowering it but is in now way thin or dull.
Belgium	Lefebvre	Barbar Winter Bock	3	Dark, slightly sweet beer with a hint of bovril which is 2.5% honey. Initially smooth but with a fuller sweet aftertaste.
Belgium	Lefebvre	Floreffe Tripel	3	Spicy, caramel, nutty banana bread flavoured abbey beer that has a mass of flavours going on and a dry aftertaste. Develops an alcoholic, corriander edge. Verging on overpowering and confusing.
USA	Left Hand	Juju Ginger Ale	3	Amber beer with a creamy head that has Jamaican root ginger in place of some hops. The ginger soars in and dominates early on before it settles down in the finish. More flavour in the wheat beer base would help it.
Belgium	Liefmans	Cuvee Brut	4	Oak aged beer flavoured with cherries. A solid kriek with a good mix of fruity sweetness and a sour base.
Belgium	Liefmans	Fruit Beer	2	Ridiculously sweet mixed fruit beer. Cherry is dominant in the aroma but the taste is a confusion of red berries with a bizarre hint of sherbet. Would be a great ice cream sauce but it's not as good as a beer.
Belgium	Liefmans	Gluhkreik	4	Served warm as a festive beer it is sugary and fruity with the feel of a mulled wine. Very different from a regular beer but a good winter warmer or an accompaniment to decorating a tree.
Belgium	Liefmans	Goudenband	4	Sour dark beer with a cherry finish. There is a bitter edge and a rounded fruitiness. Very good, but not quite up there Rodenbach Grand Cru.
Belgium	Liefmans	Kriek Ongezoet op Vat	5	Available on tap in a few Belgian bars this unsweetened version of Cuvee Brut is damn near perfect. Very tart and very sour with a wonderful dry cherry taste. One to sip and savour. The finish is a lingering wisp of it's beautiful cherry flavour.
Holland	Lindeboom	Pilsner	2	Flat tasting but gassy sour, bland tasting beer with little to recommend it. There is a big gap where the taste should be. Completely lacks any zing.
Belgium	Lindemanns	Pecheresse	2	Sweet and syrupy peach lambic with little beer about it. Not bad but lacks depth, subtlety and refinement.
Australia	Little Creatures	Pale Ale	5	Fresh, full and fruity pale ale where the traditional dry hoppy taste is lifted by a slight sweetness. Exceptionally good.
UK	Loddon	Hocus Pocus	2	A rather coarse tasting beer. Not bad, just not anything particularly good either. Described as "A ruby-red, traditional old ale-style beer with a wonderfully hoppy aroma from its blend of hops, complementing the deep malt-and-hop balance in its flavour."
France	Lorraine	Abbaye Des Premontres	3	A French take on a Belgian abbey tripel. Dark gold with a big creamy head. It has a very bready flavour with a sweet spicy finish. Good without being distinctive.
France	Lorraine	Loup Blonde	4	Fruity and floral blonde beer with a lambic style bitterness to it.
Germany	Lowenbrau	LowenWeiss	4	Unfiltered golden coloured top fermented wheat beer with a big white head. A marvelous aroma of banana and citrus mixed in with cloves and spices greets you as you raise the beer to your lips. The taste steadily builds to a bready taste with orange and bananas on top and a light gassiness. A four star beer with a five star aroma.
Belgium	Lupiline	Koriala	3	Incredibly dry blond beer with a big foamy head. The taste is almost powdery but it doesn't catch in the throat at all and has a delicacy to it.
UK	M&B	Brew XI	2	Slight chemical taste. Not great but beats a pint of John Smiths/Worthingtons/etc on draft.
UK	M&B	Mild	3	Straightforward ruby coloured ale that slips down inoffensively.
UK	Mackeston	Stout	4	Dark stout with a tan head with a taste that punches above it's 3% strength. There are hints of rice and condensed milk but with a deep bitter base to balance it out. At first it feels a little thin but it soon fills out pleasingly.
UK	Mad O'Reillys	Ice Pick	3	Gentle, slightly bready and yeasty light coloured ale. Nothing special.
UK	Mad O'Reillys	Lump Hammer	3	Slightly watery hoppy beer. Very bland but no offensive.
UK	Magpie	First Gold	3	Strong (5%) golden ale with a gently building pure hoppy taste. Develops a sharp edge.
Spain	Mahou	Cinco Estrellas	3	Strong caramel tinged lager with an interesting taste but probably not so good for heavy drinking or going with a meal.
Germany	Maisels	Weisse	3	Clean and crisp German wheat beer with a gentle corriander base. Light and pleasant with a lagerish gassiness.
UK	Marstons	Oyster Stout	3	Fairly standard stout with a well defined hop character but still fairly smooth. Designed to go with oysters rather than to taste like them. Enjoyable enough.
UK	Meantime	Franconian	3	Very dark lager with a punchy taste. Good in small measures.
UK	Meantime	IPA	2	Light golden beer with a rush of flavours. Corriander, orange, hops, cloves and pomegranite are there at the start but the finish is dry and chalky. Apparently an IPA. Trying too hard to be authentic to the original dry hopped IPA style.
UK	Meantime	Pilsner	5	Smooth almost creamy tasting lager that holds it's head and has a very full taste and a slight gassy crispness. Slips down wonderfully well.
UK	Meantime	Wheat Beer	3	Traditional tasting cloudy wheat beer with no frills or twists. Slightly smoother than many German wheat beers with restrained flavours of lemon and cloves. Made from a strain of Bavarian yeast and apparently "celebrating the complexity of the local German wheat beers" - it appears something got lost on the trip over. Sturdy not stunning.
UK	Meantime	WinterTime	3	Warming dark ale with a confusion of tastes culminating in a coffee note. Not one to drink too heavily.
UK	Melbourne Bros	Apricot	5	Well balanced spontaneously fermented beer with whole apricots added that balances it's fruit and beer flavours beautifully.
UK	Mersea Island	Oyster Stout	3	Brewed on the most easterly inhabited island in the UK. Very dark without any real head. Has a pronounced dark bitter coffee taste balanced by the lightness of an oyster flavour that complements rather than dominating the beer. Basically does what is says on the tin without any particular finesse or excellence.
France	Meteor	Reflets De France	3	Amber coloured large with a full bodied malty taste that lets you know that at 7% this is stronger, and better, than the regular stubby bottled French lager you find in hypermarkets. Similar to Innis & Gunn in some respects.
UK	Milestone	Rich Ruby	3	Bitter mahogany ale with a tangy fruity flavour. There is an oaky element that adds to the taste but it is lacks a distinguishing element or focus.
UK	Milk Street	Mermaid	4	Chestnut coloured ale with a dry hoppy taste that is almost chewy and has a pleasant slowly fading finish. A slight citrus sharpness develops to add some complexity.
USA	Miller	Lone Star	3	Straight forward lager that holds on suprises and does what you would expect. Crisp light and not exactly packed with flavour though there is enough hoppiness to stop it being bland.
Iceland	Mjodur	Jokull	4	Smooth lager with a gentle bitter floral taste. The makers claim it is fresh as a glacier. It is certainly refreshing. The hop and barley tastes are incredibly restrained. There is a subtle spicy note in the finish that builds pleasingly.
Mexico	Moctezuma	Bohemia Clasica	2	Tinny, citrus flavoured light coloured pilsner style beer. Glat and fairly bland. Very thin for something that is 5%. Would be a passable session beer if nothing decent was available.
Mexico	Moctezuma	Dos Equis XX	2	Overly gassy vienna style lager beer brewed in Mexico. Goes very well with salami but poor on it's own.
UK	Moorhouse	Blond Witch	5	Easy drinking blond ale that doesn’t feel too strong or bland
Belgium	Moortgat	Duvel Rood	5	Straw coloured strong ale (8.5%) that floats like a butterfly on the palate whilst still packing a hefty taste.
Belgium	Moortgat	Duvel Tripel Hop	4	Intensely hoppy beer that dances all around the taste buds. A beer to be intrigued by. Limited run.
Belgium	Moortgat	Maredsous 10 Tripel	3	Full bodied tripel with a strong alcoholic edge that blends reasonably with a creamy corriander base. Pleasingly warming and well suited to drinking after dinner in place of a whisky but it could be more balanced and have a greater flavour.
Belgium	Moortgat	Maredsous 6 Blonde	4	Golden amber ale with a big white foamy head. Creamy, bready tasting with the slight spiciness in the aftertaste. Generally quite restrained for a Belgian pale ale. Very drinkable and with subtle pleasures that slip into view when you sit back and enjoy.
Belgium	Moortgat	Maredsous 8 Bruin	5	Creamy strong ale with a slightly dry, bitter hoppy taste that drifts into a hint of fruit in the aftertaste. A strong beer with full flavours that are never overpowering and retain their subtlety.
Belgium	Moortgat	Veddet Blonde	3	Very, very gassy lager with a crisp, full taste. Possibly a bit too likely to cause burping to be drunk too readily, but still pleasing.
Belgium	Moortgat	Veddet White	5	Smooth, wheat beer that is similar to Hoegarden, Slight coriander flavour, very drinkable, very good and not wrecked by the brewer throwing half the contents of a spice rack into the beer to liven it up.
France	Mor Braz	Mor Braz	5	Tripel fermented beer made with sea water. Light amber colour with a slightly salty bright malt taste that is refreshing and moreish. (Worth re-trying when cold and properly served)
UK	Mordue	All Wheat Pet	2	Exceptionally bland straw coloured ale. Light in colour and taste. Very drinkable in the same way that water is. A faint bitter citrus malt emerges at the end.
UK	Mordue	Geordie Pride	3	Dry beer with a gentle bitter citrus taste mixed with a speckled hen like nuttiness. Little lingering flavour.
Belgium	Mort Subite	Faro	5	Sweet beer that has elements of cider and sherry in the taste. Similar to the Mort Subite bottled Gueuze but with a subtler aftertaste.
Belgium	Mort Subite	Gueuze	4	Sweet and fruity beer that is verging on cider territory but the unmistakeable musty sour taste of a lambic comes through. There is an aroma and taste of pickled gherkin and dill pickles. Interesting and distinctive whilst remaining well balanced and easy to drink.
Belgium	Mort Subite	Kriek	3	Very, very sweet kriek. A very slight sourness at the end balances it slightly but it's a bit like a squash. Still easy to drink though.
Belgium	Mort Subite	Lambic	4	Amber spontaneously fermented beer with a light creamy head. It has an acidic fruity spritzy, almost cider like taste balanced with a sour gassiness. Good depth and well rounded.
Belgium	Mort Subite	White Lambic	5	Dry beer with a strong taste of apricots. No thin chemical fruitiness that you often get in beers. Very refreshing and a good choice if you are in the mood for something fruity.
UK	Mouden	Spring Tyne	3	Blonde beer with a sharp citrus hoppy taste. Easy drinking but lacking in depth.
Ireland	Murphys	Stout	3	Only has a light bitterness with a bright citrus hop being more prevalent. Light but fairly creamy.
UK	Nelson	Powder Monkey	2	Very hoppy golden ale that didn't impress
UK	Nethergate	Essex Border	3	Golden brown ale that is light in colour but has a deep, bitter and massively hoppy taste. Only a creeping dryness stops this fine ale from getting a strong recommendation.
UK	Nethergate	Greedy Pike	3	Dark amber ale with no head. Very malty in taste but still a bit watery. Overall very drinkable but lacking depth.
UK	New-K-Ham	Puffin	3	Ruby ale that slipped down nicely as the fifth pint of the evening. Similar to John Smiths, but much nicer.
UK	Newcastle	Brown Ale	2	Brown and rather lifeless colour. Fairly thin taste with a gentle hoppiness and a hint of coke in the gassy finish.
UK	North Yorkshire	Rocket Fuel	2	Light processed tasting ale with a slight tang.
Ireland	O'Hanlons	Port Stout	3	Smooth tasting stout with the small amount of port tempering the standard burnt coffee taste. Has a gentle oatmeal edge. Overall it is well balanced but not as fascinating as it seems.
UK	Oakham Ales	Asylum	2	Citrus (fairy liquid) tasting light coloured beer with a lingering dryness. Tastes quite thin, though it has a zing.
UK	Oakham Ales	Atilla	2	Overpowered light coloured beer whose 8% strength gives it a tangy edge. Not great.
UK	Oakham Ales	Bishops Farewell	3	Somewhat watery ale that builds up a pleasing dry, hoppiness built the end of a pint. Likely to be good for prolonged drinking.
UK	Oakham Ales	Haka	2	Dry and bitter light coloured ale that doesn't do anything to distinguish itself.
UK	Oakham Ales	Inferno	3	Light blonde beer with a mild balanced taste.
UK	Oakham Ales	JHB	5	Light ale with gently bitter floral taste. Very easy drinking and very nice.
UK	Oakham Ales	Mompesons Gold	4	Seasonal beer from the Peterborough brewer.
UK	Oakham Ales	White Dwarf	2	Sour tasting wheat beer that suffers in comparison with German wheat beers.
Ukraine	Obolon	Oksamitove (Velvet)	5	Mahogany hued dunkel with a light mouthfeel underpinned with a gentle gassiness. Bread and raisins dominate the taste with a posterish bitterness. Light but full of flavour.
UK	Okells	Autumn Dawn	2	Slightly bland, smooth beer with a bitter soapy edge. Not great, but not terrible.
Poland	Okocim	Mocne	3	Bright and bubbly lager that has a gentle taste which belies it's stonking 7% strength. Should have more flavour for it's stength - a quaffing beer.
UK	Old Mill	Willows Wood	2	Slightly soapy golden ale. There is a brief hint of citrus hops, but it's very brief.
UK	Oldershaw	Newton's Drop	2	Mild brown ale with a taste on the sour side, possibly the dregs of a barrel when tasted but not very nice
Iceland	Olvisholt	Freyja	3	Filtered wheat ale with a light, refreshing taste and a gentle gassiness. Very easy to drink.
Iceland	Olvisholt	Lava Stout	3	Dark, bitter imperial stout with a thick mouthfeel and a syrupy sweetness mixed with a warming alcoholic edge. Lighter than most beers of the type and lacking some of the depth and complexity. Dangerously easy to drink though.
Iceland	Olvisholt	Mori	3	Amber coloured with no head, this has a rich bitter malty taste. Though it has elements of an English bitter it's gassiness gives it more of a Belgian feel. Light and very easy drinking.
Iceland	Olvisholt	Skjalfti	4	Full flavoured lager with a pronounced rustic, dry hoppy edge to it. Well rounded with a gentle bitterness in the finish. Has elements of a biere de garde.
Belgium	Orval	Orval	4	Strong and sharp with elements of opal fruits, apples and bananas. When clear (without sediment) it has elements of bubblegum. Slightly spicy and creamy as well. May benefit from time to mature in the bottle.
UK	Ossett	Pale Gold	2	Sour watery golden ale.
Austria	Ottakringer	Goldfassl Spezial	3	Golden coloured hoppy lager with a dry gassy edge. Like a pilsner with the hops on overdrive.
Austria	Ottakringer	Helles	3	Crisp, light, dry, mildly gassy lager with a slowly developing hoppy taste. Very refreshing when served cold on a hot day (when it feels great) but otherwise a little bland.
Austria	Ottakringer	Wiener Wirsterhaff Hausbrau	4	Dark amber cloudy beer with a full bodied malt and yeasty taste and the mouthfeel of a wheatbeer. A hoppiness emerges through the mist with a slight caramel sweetness. Smells of horlicks and tastes of hob-nobs. The house beer of the Wiener Wirsterhaff restaurant in Vienna.
Belgium	Palm	Brugge Trippel	4	Initially all over the place, this expands into a big taste of toffee apples with a transient gassiness. An experience of a beer, very strong at 8.7% and a bit too unbalanced for regular drinking.
Belgium	Palm	Rodenbach	4	Strange. An oak aged beer with a sweet edge that has a massive cherry aroma that overpowers the intial taste before chiming with the sour cherry taste in finish. Unexpected at first but tasty after you have adjusted. A blend of the Grand Cru and younger beers. The Grand Cru is definitely finer.
Belgium	Palm	Rodenbach Grand Cru	5	A superb example of a strident beer. A syrupy sweetness competes with a taste of sour cherries whilst a gentle gassiness lifts the taste and a deep oaky base grounds it. Aged for 24 months in oak barrels and well worth the wait.
Belgium	Palm	Speciale	4	Sweetly wheaty 5% beer. Very smooth with a gentle froth. Nice easy drinking.
Belgium	Palm	Steenbrugge Wit Blanche	3	A typical Belgian witbier with cloves and citrus notes dominating. Light, gassy and pleasingly refreshing but lacking a little depth. Cloudy but with the mouthfeel of a filtered beer.
UK	Pascoes	IPA	3	A creamy head atops this bready, citrus hopped ale with a light taste.
UK	Peak Ales	Bakewell	3	Light hoppy and yeasty session beer that slips down agreeably.
UK	Peak Ales	Swift Nick	2	Light, almost inconsequential ale with a yeasty taste. Would be more appealing if it felt refreshing.
France	Pelforth	Ambree	4	English style amber ale with a pronounced hoppy taste tempered by a gentle creamy smoothness. Carries the thumbprint of Pelforth's other beers, though it is not quite as distinguished. Would go well with red meat of sausages.
France	Pelforth	Blonde	5	Smooth, creamy and full bodied beer with a gentle but persuasive bitter hoppy aftertaste. Very moreish and quite potent.
France	Pelforth	Brune	5	Dark, malty beer with a smooth edge, slightly offset but a gentle gas to give it an edge. Akin to a Belgian scotch ale.
UK	Penlon	Ewes Frolic	3	Bottle conditioned lager from a Welsh cottage brewery. Cloudy gold in colour this has a bitter hoppy taste that is softened by the teaspoon of cane sugar added to aid the bottle conditioning. Fairly flat for a lager. Pleasant and enjoyable.
Belgium	Petrus	Oud Bruin	4	Top fermented beer aged in oak barrels for 2 years. Dark stewed fruits (raisins and cherries) and quite sour. Fairly fizzy but overall it is well balanced with a roasted malt finish. Very easy drinking for a dark beer.
UK	Phoenix	Wobbly Bob	3	Deep, amber ale with a gentle hoppiness overpowered by sharp edge that feels a little disconcerting but isn't too bad.
Austria	Plutzer Brau	Germischtes	3	Dark brown beer with a sweet malty taste and no head. It reminds me of an English ale. There is a hoppy bitterness in the background to round out the taste. Overall it's smooth and satisfyingly easy to drink.
Austria	Plutzer Brau	Zwickl	3	Unfiltered lager with a light bread and malt taste filled out with the mouthfeel of a wheatbeer. A solid quaffing beer.
Belgium	Purdebrug	Blonde	3	Abbey style blonde beer that has a sweet, almost honey taste with a slight gassiness. Much lighter tasting that it's 6% strength.
UK	Purity	Farmers Harvest	3	Dry lagerish beer with a delicate citrus taste on a pale ale base. Very smooth with a wheat beer foundation. Solid easy drinking but a touch bland.
UK	Purity	Mad Goose	2	Light, sour, soapy, gassy beer which is underwhelming to say the least. When chilled it is has a tangy, caramel flavour and tastes like a typical English Ale.
UK	Purity	Pure Gold	3	Light gold ale with a bitter smoothness rather than a lager bubble
UK	Purity	Ubu	2	Smooth and creamy beer with a tangy citrus hop taste and a gentle bitter finish that doesn't linger. Good for warm weather.
UK	Purple Moose	Glaslyn Ale	3	Golden coloured bitter with a fruity citrus flavour balanced with a light hoppiness and a dry bitter finish. A decent session beer.
UK	Red Brick	Shire Oak	2	Somewhat bland amber ale that is inoffensively pleasant for light drinking
UK	Red Rat	Rock Ape	2	Very sour and soapy beer that really grabs your attention. Slightly opaque in colour. Overall it is too dry and a bit off to my taste.
Jamaica	Red Stripe	Red Stripe (UK brewed)	2	Starts with a decent hoppiness but quickly becomes flat, bland and dry with a slight bitterness in the finish. There are definately worse lagers out there but this is still below average. Brewed under licence in the UK by Charles Wells.
UK	Ridgeway	Foreign Extra Stout	5	Dark with a faint head. Burnt soy sauce, coffee and liquorice lightened by a hint of apple and a crisp fizziness. More like a porter than a stout. Strong but easy drinking at 8% and well balanced. Smooth and superb with Raisins coming through when warmer.
UK	Ridgeway	IPA	3	An "authentic" IPA with pale malts and no sugar or syrups, brewed with top fermenting yeast. Looks very much like a cloudy wheat beer but has a crisp fizzy edge to the aftertaste. Interesting but too gassy to whole hearted recommend.
UK	Ridgeway	Ivanhoe	5	"A very English pale ale". Light ruby ale that is dry, crisp and bitter with a good lingering taste. Describes itself as perfectly balanced - and that isn't far off.
UK	Ringwood	49er	3	Deep ruby red ale with a restrained dry hoppy taste and no head. A good session beer. Nice bitter floral aroma.
UK	Robinsons	Chocolate Tom	4	Dry, strong dark amber ale mixed with cocoa that has a well balanced bitter chocolate and a vanilla aroma. It has a fizz & powdery drinking chocolate edge that is quite appealing. A nice after dinner or end of the night tipple.
UK	Robinsons	Double Maxim	4	Amber ale with a deep hoppy taste and heavy feel that has a dry finish. There is a sweet nuttiness in the background. A classic English bitter.
UK	Robinsons	Ginger Tom	5	A blend of the brewer's Old Tom Strong Ale with Fentiman's Ginger Beer that is surprisingly well balanced. The ginger initially dominates the taste, but it is balanced by the deep taste of the ale. Probably a 'novelty beer', but a very good one.
Belgium	Rochefort	6	3	Smooth, creamy dark brown beer with a gentle hint of corriander and spices. Very drinkable for it's 7.5% strength, very pleasing but not very complex.
Belgium	Rochefort	8	4	Dark, chewy beer with a sweet fruity taste and a slight hint of liquorice. Light enough to be easily drinkable but with a strong flavour.
Belgium	Rochefort	10	3	Strong, porterish ale that is verging on the barley wine territory. May be overpowering in large measures (SS).
USA	Rogue	Brutal Bitter	4	Strong, hoppy ale that is dark brown in colour with a big foamy head. The taste is very similar to a US IPA with the heavy rounded bop taste but there is a dark bitterness in the background that gives it something extra.
UK	Roosters	YPA	3	Bone dry light ale with a hoppy citrus taste. Refreshing on a summers day.
UK	Rugby	Victorius	2	Thin, sour and dry ale with a light colour that leaves a bitter taste
UK	S.A. Brain	Rev James	3	Light ruby coloured ale with a gentle hoppy taste and a slight hint of soapy caramel. Pleasing but a bit chemical and bland.
USA	SAB Miller	Blue Moon Belgian White	4	Belgian style unfiltered spiced wheat beer that is made with oats. Feels very creamy and looks very cloudy with a gentle orange flavour in the background. Very pleasant, very smooth but perhaps a little timid and worried about offending anyone.
Czech	SAB Miller	Gambrinus Premium	3	A pilsner with a fuller maltier taste than usual. It is a good beer but it is not exceptional.
Holland	SAB Miller	Grolsch Blond	1	A 4% strength beer from Grolsch to cash in on the low alcohol lager bandwagon. Has the taste of cheap bread and seems to be imitating Carling. Very poor.
Holland	SAB Miller	Grolsch Lager	4	One of the better mass produced continental lager that retains a slight hoppy taste with it's crisp clean edge.
Holland	SAB Miller	Grolsch Weizen	3	(Swing top bottle) Bitter tasting wheat beer. Different taste depending on whether the beer is rolled around in the bottle before pouring. Unimpressive. (Metal cap bottle) Slightly sweet wheat beer that is fairly well balanced and has decent body while remaining easily drinkable.
Poland	SAB Miller	Lech Premium	1	Polish lager that smacks of being cheap and mass produced. Reminiscent of the Castello Italian lagers.
Italy	SAB Miller	Peroni Gran Riserva	3	Light amber ale with an alcoholic edge and a slight maltiness. The aftertaste becomes quite dry and bitter. Not bad but somewhat uninspiring.
Italy	SAB Miller	Peroni Nastro Azzurro	3	Light and gassy lager with a crisp edge.
Czech	SAB Miller	Pilsner Urquell	2	Smooth Amber/orange coloured pilsner with a steadily building hoppy aftertaste. It is not as rounded as it should be leaving it feeling somewhat thin and timid.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Green Man	3	Gassy, fruity lagerish ale that slips down agreeably but not excitingly.
UK	Sadlers Ales	IPA	3	Deep ruby IPA with a strong malty taste. Lacks subtlety.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Jack's Ale	3	Fairly bland light ale that slips down easily but leaves no trace.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Mild	3	Deep, almost stout like mild with a strong coffee taste. Solid but not exceptional.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Mud City Stout	4	Velvety coffee and chocolate stout with a gentle bitterness and a floral hop aroma. Smooth and satisfying.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Mud Crutch Stout	4	Deep coffee tasting stout with a hint of porter. Strong, forceful but not overbearing.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Thin Ice	3	Sharp and slightly thin tasting ale that mixes a gentle bitterness with a light citrus pang.
UK	Sadlers Ales	Worcestor Sourcerer	3	Smooth slightly soapy gold coloured beer.
Portugal	Sagres	Branca	3	Tastes like a hundred other European lagers, but it's pleasant enough when served cold on a hot day.
Estonia	Saku	Kuld	3	Quaffing lager that slides down very easy with a gentle straw taste that builds but ultimately remains slightly watery.
Austria	Salm Brau	Maibock	4	Light gold seasonal lager with a bright hoppy taste and a mild gassiness. There is a slight floral taste to it that makes it very refreshing when cold.
Austria	Salm Brau	Marzen	4	Traditional Vienna style amber Marzen with a smooth caramel taste balanced by a lingering gassiness with a slight bitter woodiness. Well balanced and very easy drinking.
Austria	Salzburger	Stiegel	3	Thin gassy lager, crisp and inoffensive. Aftertaste slowly develops.
UK	Samuel Smith	Imperial Stout	4	Tangy dark stout with a big hit of tar and a gentle fizz. Quite potent at 7%. Brewed in open stone squares.
UK	Samuel Smith	India Ale	3	Heavily hopped IPA with a chunky malted amber taste tempered with a smooth texture.
UK	Samuel Smith	Mild	2	Smooth beer with a light hoppy taste dominated by the typical Samuel Smith nuttiness which didn't quite appeal.
UK	Samuel Smith	Nut Brown Ale	3	A creamy lingering head atops this suitably named beer. Smooth nutty flavours dominate with a dash of yeasty bitterness. Well balanced and interesting without quite being compelling. Good winter and autumn session fare.
UK	Samuel Smith	Oatmeal Stout	3	Smooth oaty stout with a gentle peaty coffee ground bitterness. The flavour builds into the typical Samuel Smith's nuttiness over the course of a pint which does quite sit with the smoothness. Brewed in slate squares using well water and fairly full bodied without feeling heavy. A fizzy tar note appears at the end.
UK	Samuel Smith	Old Brewery Best Bitter	3	Pleasantly drinkable ale "pulled from an oak cask". Stands up well to repeated drinking over an evening.
UK	Samuel Smith	Organic Best Ale	5	Light brown ale with a large head that fairly quickly fades. The taste kicks off with coffee and nuts before the bitter hoppy base comes through. There is a hint of chocolate in the finish. It has the telltale tang of a sam smith beer but is possibly their finest beer. Quite filling though with a dry finish and a light gassiness
UK	Samuel Smith	Organic Cherry Beer	2	Sour cherry tasting beer that has the flavour of boiled sweets. A bit too robust for a fruit beer to my taste.
UK	Samuel Smith	Organic Lager	4	Full bodied hoppy lager that is refreshing and has great character. There is a woody aroma and a gentle malt bitterness mixed with a light fizz in the finish. Made with kilned malt. Full of old character and well balanced.
UK	Samuel Smith	Pale Ale	4	Robust chestnut coloured ale with a hoppy flavour, balanced with a fruity, malty aftertaste and a gentle bitterness.
UK	Samuel Smith	Strong Golden	3	British barley wine, strong and malty with the characteristic Sam Smith bitter note. The strong alcohol brings a dash of caramel, there is a light hoppiness, hints of oaked sherry and a gassy tingle at the end. Served in small bottles for sipping.
Philippines	San Miguel	Premium	3	Fairly typical commercial lager with a slightly deeper and more rounded taste than most.
Japan	Sapporo	Yebisu Premium	3	Japanese lager with a dry malty taste that is best when cold. Fairly full bodied for a lager.
UK	Sarah Hughes	Dark Ruby Mild	2	Overly tangy, malty beer that is interesting at first but quickly becomes overwhelming
France	Saverne	Kasteel Cru	3	Light tasting blonde lager made with champagne yeast that gives it the fizz of a sparkingly white wine. Works well as an apertif and can be mixed with sweet spirits such as Disarranno with interesting results.
France	Saverne	Kasteel Cru Rose	3	Elderflower mixed with standard Kasteel Cru. Slightly synthetic but generally good. Given how well standard Kasteel Cru mixes with sweet spirits this is a wasted oppourtunity. Mixing Kasteel Cru with St Germain probably works better.
Belgium	Scheldebrouwerij	Witbeer	3	Smooth wheat beer with a very light refreshing flavour. There is a gentle ephemeral bitterness in the finish that fills out the beer very nicely. Made with spelt rather than regular wheat.
Germany	Schenkerla	Aecht Rauchbier	5	Dark ruby coloured, almost black, beer with a smoky, burnt malty taste that is balanced by a slight caramel sweetness. Goes very well with smoked or spiced sausage. Initially similar to a porter, further tasting shows it to be distinctly different with a good depth of flavour and no coffee edge.
Austria	Schladinger	Marzen	3	Once you get over the aroma of trainers you find a moderately gassy golden lager with a slightly sour taste. A tad surprising at first ("is it fully brewed yet?" you might ask) you soon adjust and drink happily.
Austria	Schloss Eggenburg	Hopfen Pils	3	Crisp golden lager with a typical pilsner hoppiness and a mild dryness.
Austria	Schloss Eggenburg	Macqueens Nessie (5%)	4	Light red coloured smoked whisky malt lager with a dry gassy taste. The whisky comes through gently in the aroma with a light tangy, smoky finish and a carbonated tingle on the tongue. Much lighter than Adelscot and Innis & Gunn.
Austria	Schloss Eggenburg	Urbock 23	3	Strong (9%) amber beer with a pronounced malt and alcohol edge and a banana sweetness that fades into a sour dry bitterness. More drinkable than many lagered beers of it's strength but not exceptional.
Germany	Schneider	Weisse Original	4	Traditional wheat beer with a an intoxicating edge. Exceptionally pleasant but not really exceptional.
Germany	Schumucker	Bio Pils	3	Smells of blackcurrent lemsip. Taste is more subtle with a sharp sweetness.
UK	Sharps	Doombar	3	Smooth, comforting, slightly creamy bitter with a gentle soapy taste. Drinkable but unexceptional.
UK	Sharps	Honey Spice Wheat Beer	3	Does what it says on the label really. A dry, almost lagerish wheat beer with a faint taste of honey and an even fainter taste of spices.
UK	Sheppard Neame	Christmas Ale	2	Hoppy and soapy beer with a slight spiced fruit taste that feels like a wiped out Christmas afternoon when the tastebuds are struggling.
UK	Sheppard Neame	Late Red	4	Amber coloured beer with a creamy head. Predominantly a bitter hoppy ale but the flavour is balanced but malt and fruit notes. A good autumn ale.
UK	Sheppard Neame	Oranjeboom Pilsener (UK)	3	Amber lager with a very crisp dry flavour. There is a distinct malty taste at first but the finish is just gently bitter with a subliminal hint of orange. Dangerously drinkable on a hot day. Brewed under licence in the UK to a different strength to the continental Oranjeboom.
UK	Shugborough	Lordships Own	3	Deep smooth ruby coloured ale akin to Wychwood Osprey.
USA	Sierra Nevada	Bigfoot Ale	2	Barleywine style ale with a big hoppy ale that is akin to an English bitter. Very strong but with little depth to show for it. There are beers at 5% or under that do the same job.
USA	Sierra Nevada	Torpedo IPA	3	Incredibly hoppy IPA in the traditional American micro brewed style. Crisp with a dry bitter finish and a dash of citrus.
Belgium	Silly	La Divine	3	Amber ale with no head. A sour bundle of spicy citrus with a dry tingle in the finish. Stronger than it tastes at 9.5%.
Thailand	Singha	Lager	3	Hoppy thai lager that feels refreshing with a slight fruity edge. Should go well with aromatic hot eastern food that marries with something aromatic.
UK	Skinners	Splendid Tackle	3	Lively golden ale with a citrus edge that doesn't taste like fairy liquid. Smooth with a decent body
UK	Slaughterhouse	Saddleback	3	Easy drinking light tasting session ale. Forgetable but very drinkable
France	Sornin	Trouille	4	A French brune with a rustic taste that is dark mahogany in colour. It has dark, fruity taste with hints of raspberries and lemon - maybe a little sour cream - finishing off with a touch of coffee. The range of flavours add up to a slightly hazy taste, but very interesting and pleasant.
Sweden	Spendrups	Julbrygd	4	Swedish Christmas beer. A dark lager with a large but shortlived head. Gentle flavours of malt, fruit and liquorice fade into a gentle flat watery aftertaste. Very light and easy to drink despite it being over 5%. Goes well with a smorgosbord (or even better a festive julbord).
Sweden	Spendrups	Old Gold	3	Crisp Swedish lager with a bitter finish and a strong dry hopped taste. Well balanced but unexceptional. Goes well with cold meat and cheese.
UK	Springhead	Roaring Meg	5	"The big blonde" ale with a strong hoppy taste cut with a slight honey edge and a delicate dryness in the finish. A beer that is strong and confident without losing any delicacy. Could be easily sipped or drunk as a session beer.
UK	Springhead	Ruperts Ruin	3	Gentle malty beer with a ruby colour and a dry aftertaste. Tasty but not exceptional
UK	St Austell	Admiral Ale	4	Chestnut coloured 5% ale with a balance between hops and malt and a gentle fizz to liven things up. Light enough to be easy drinking but with a good depth of taste.
UK	St Austell	Clouded Yellow	4	Bavarian style unfiltered wheat beer named after a migrating butterfly. Quite dry and somewhat gassy with subtle hints of corriander and vanilla that lead to gentle bitter cloves in the finish. Very good, but could be bolder.
UK	St Austell	Free Beer	5	Ruby coloured strong "open source" ale (5.5%) with a taste like a rougher version of tribute. The Guarana makes it refreshing and energising (and me light headed).
UK	St Austell	Tribute	5	This is an everyday beer in the finest sense - a beer you could happily drink everyday. It has a light brown colour and a gentle malty taste that is never bland but is not overpowering either. It is almost elusive with each mouthful calling for another to try and tease out another subtlety in the taste. They say it's "moreishly drinkable", I just say more!
Belgium	St Bernardus	Abt 12	5	Smooth, dark beer that used to be the "official imitation" of Westvleteren 12. Sweetly malty, slightly fruity and elements of caramel. Dark, complex and well balanced. Very, very good but not quite as good as the 12 from Sint Sixtus.
Belgium	St Bernardus	Blanche Witbier	4	As a Pierre Celis signature beer this comes with approval from the father of modern wheat beer. It is an assured and traditional brew with a gentle mix of gas and corriander. It is fairly light but without compromising taste.
Belgium	St Bernardus	Grottenbier	4	Light, spicy beer with a definite corriander edge. Smooth, dark and full bodied like a wheat beer. There is a distinct taste of spiced orange zest.
Belgium	St Bernardus	Triple	4	Smooth, cloudy amber beer that has a subtle but complex taste when chilled that makes you "lean in" to taste it better. The gentle floral taste with elements of banana becomes a wheaty, hopped taste as it warms. Easy to drink for it's strength and a very good beer all round.
Belgium	St Feullian	Blonde	3	Gassy blonde abbey beer with a bitter edge that is reminiscent of a wheat beer but with a spicier citric flavour.
Belgium	St Feullian	Cuvee Noel	3	Tart tasting beer with a fruity edge and a deep malty aftertaste. It claims to have a "remarkable unctuousness".
Belgium	St Feullian	Tripel	4	Golden tripel with a smooth creamy, orangey taste and a slightly corriander banana aftertaste and a hint of sourness. Well rounded and very drinkable.
Germany	St Georgen	Helles	3	Dry, crisp, hoppy lager with a bitter aftertaste. Has nothing to particularly distinguish itself from the crowd but is agreeable enough.
Germany	St Georgen	Keller Beer	4	Earthy, light brown unfiltered pilsner with a bitter hoppy edge, a hint of nuttiness that develops a biscuit maltiness. Full bodied and refreshing with a light carbonation.
UK	St Peter	Amarillo	3	Looks like a cross between a wheat beer and cider. Has a measured citrus taste that is a balanced by a gentle hoppiness.
UK	St Peter	Honey Porter	2	Rich honey dominates the taste at first before the hoppiness of the porter tries to stage a fightback. They quickly cancel each other out to leave a soapy flavour. An interesting failure. Dark in colour with no head.
UK	St Peter	Mild	4	A mild? This tastes like a porter all the way with a big roasted coffee flavour that complements it's dark colour. Straightforward but satisfying and at 3.7% very very drinkable and with an impressively full flavour.
France	St Rieul	Grand Cru	4	Amber triple fermented biere du garde with a big white foamy head. A strong beer at 9% it has elements of the agricultural flavours of Franch biere du garde and the smooth strength of a Belgian tripel. It is full bodied with an alcoholic malty edge that fades into a slight spiciness. Smooth, well balanced and very drinkable with a slightly fruity aroma.
France	St Sylvestre	3 Monts	4	Straw coloured strong ale with a frothy head. Smooth with a restrained alcoholic hoppy flavour and a bready mouthfeel. A potent beer that feels like a warm summer evening in the french countryside. A sipping beer.
France	St Sylvestre	Gavroche	3	Dark amber ale which despite being 8.5% has a very light, slightly caramel, sweet malty flavour to iy. Feels a bit bland on this tasting but may improve if properly chilled and served.
UK	Stanway	Morris A Leaping	3	A light brown bitter with no head and a light aroma. The taste is initially watery and refreshing with a dry bitter malty finish that has a hint of biscuits. A weak and gentle session beer.
Russia	Stary Melnik	Iz Bochonka Myagkoe	2	Thin light lager with the briefest hint of malted barley in the taste balanced with a gentle gassiness. There is nothing wrong with it but it is way too bland on it's own. Goes fairly well with food that could otherwise be overpowered.
China	Sunlik	-	3	Dry and sweet beer with a crisp edge. Apparently the UKs most popular draft Chinese beer. Brewed by Sheppard Neame in this country.
UK	Teme Valley	This	3	Light English bitter with a gentle watery hoppy taste mixed with a nutty fruitiness and a light bitterness on the tongue at the finish. Pleasing session fare.
UK	Theakston	Old Peculiar	3	Dark ruby ale with a malty alcoholic taste akin to an old ale. There is a hint of stewed fruit in the background. Overall it is slightly too thin.
France	Thiriez	Ambree du Esquelbeck	5	Dark amber beer with a full hoppy taste that is wonderfully balanced with a gentle bitterness and a hint of orange.
France	Thiriez	Blonde du Esquelbeck	5	Cloudy golden beer with a creamy head and a smell of fields of hops and oranges. The taste is initially crisp and gassy leading into a fresh citrus orange flavour that is bright but well balanced. There is a hint of cider that would make it ideally suited to summer but it's good enough to be enjoyable in a snowstorm.The taste is balanced by a wheat beer breadiness that gives it depth.
France	Thiriez	Etoile Du Nord	4	Cloudy blonde beer with a big citrus hop taste. Refreshing with a satisfying lingering tingling zesty finish. Creamy mouthfeel.
France	Thiriez	La Maline	5	Dark hoppy beer with a syrupy sweetness. Does not have a coffee or burnt edge that similarly dark beers have. Very smooth and drinkable but with a depth of flavour.
France	Thiriez	La Rouge Flamande	4	Dark, bitter, hoppy ale with a very thick taste. Elements of a dark English ale but with the rustic earthiness of a biere du garde. A slightly sour aftertaste.
UK	Thornbridge	Ashford	4	Smooth brown ale which is surprisingly refreshing with a good range of roasted flavours in the aftertaste.
UK	Thornbridge	Jaipur	5	India Pale Ale with big fruit flavours that combine beautifully with the traditional hoppy taste of IPA. The overall taste is fairly heavy but it still provides refreshment and can balance well with food. The only reservation is that it becomes a tad too dry and bitter towards the end of a bottle.
UK	Thornbridge	Kipling	3	Dry, bitter pale ale with a fruity edge. I couldn't clearly make out the passion fruit and kiwi fruit flavours the brewers claim but it certainly doesn't lack flavour.
Sweden	Three Hearts	Stockholm Fine Festival Beer (5.6%)	2	It claims to be a fine festival beer from Stockholm that has won the gold medal at the world's toughest quality test. It tastes like a bland fizzy lager that could have come from anywhere in the world.
UK	Thwaite's	Bitter	3	Easy drinking traditional tasting bitter
UK	Thwaite's	Double Century	3	Pleasant, drinkable but unexceptional
UK	Thwaite's	Highwayman	4	Dark ruby ale with a small transient head. The taste is dominated by the roasted chocolate malts with a bitter burnt after taste with a hint of soy sauce. Quite smooth and with bags of flavour for it's 4% strength, this could make for a good dark session beer.
UK	Thwaites	Wainwright	3	Golden ale with no head. It has a light taste with a hoppy, slightly gassy initial taste that is softened by some gentle sweet fruit flavours.
UK	Timothy Taylor	Golden Best	3	Smooth hoppy ale that is nice and light. A traditional British ale that is very easy to drink.
UK	Timothy Taylor	Landlord	3	Four times supreme champion beer of Britian this classic bitter was a tad underwhelming and undistinguished when tried on draught. Sharp bitter taste with a citrus hop edge. Too thin to be be truly great.
UK	Tirril	Old Faithful	5	Tasty and moreish ale. 4% in strength and a light but not bland taste
UK	Tirril	Slee's Academy Ale	4	Dark, full bodied malty ale with a strong and distinctive taste that balanced out well over the course of a pint.
UK	Titanic	Engine Room	3	Light, slightly citric ale whose sharpness counters a slight blandness.
UK	Tom Woods	Best Bitter	2	Light watery golden bitter that has little depth or finish to it.
UK	Tom Woods	Old Timber	3	Slightly bitter and malty beer with a fruitiness in the finish. A tad watery overall.
UK	Tranquir	Jacobite Ale	4	Strong dark ale with a malty porter taste balanced with a spiced aftertaste. There is a gassiness to the mouthfeel that gives it body but it still has an underlying smoothness. Brewed to a historic Scottish recipe.
UK	Triple F	Moondance	3	Amber coloured best bitter made with Maris Otter hops. Sharp citrus tang means only a pint at a sitting but has a good full taste
UK	Triple F	Pressed Rat & Warthog	3	Sharp, malty dark brown beer with a small laced head and a hint of raspberries and vinegar. Robust yet very drinkable beer that ends on a slightly dry coffee note.
China	Tsingtao	Tsingtao beer	3	Slightly dry and slightly hoppy lager that goes fairly well with food.
Denmark	Tuborg	Pilsner	2	Bone dry Danish pilsner. A fair taste but dehydrating though it does seem to go down well after a curry. Not one for drinking on it's own though.
UK	Tunnel	Battlefield - Henry Tudor	3	Yeast ale, that isn't as dark or ruby coloured as it claims. Strong flavours of sour apricot and citrus aren't quite to my taste but it certainly isn't bland for a sub 5% ale.
UK	Tunnel	Battlefield - Let Battle Commence	3	Easy drinking amber session bitter that is not too bland but makes for a great way to kick off an evenings drinking. Not that special either, just pleasant.
UK	Tunnel	Battlefield - Richard III	3	Citrus, slightly washing up liquid beer with a sight spicy corriander taste. Improves with drinking and goes well with food. Very bright but still good.
UK	Tunnel	Boston Beer Party	4	American pale ale with a fruity nose, a slightly dry elderflower taste and a gentle fizz.
UK	Tunnel	Clockwork Orange	4	Light amber coloured bitter with a big foamy head. An orange hoppiness dominates the taste with a gentle bitterness in the finish. Only 4% abv and quite refreshing which makes it a good unchallenging session bitter.
UK	Tunnel	Fields Of Gold	5	Golden ale with a full, almost wheat beer, taste with a hint of fruit. Refreshing and a great choice for a hot summers day.
UK	Tunnel	Jean Cloudy Van Damme	5	Wheat beer with floral apricot notes and a distinct gueuze edge. Slightly sour and musty but with bundles of flavour. A craft beer brewed near Nuneaton.
UK	Tunnel	Late OTT	4	Fragrant, floral and slightly fruity (apricots, berries or grapefruit?) bitter with a hint of cocoa powder. Slightly acidic and slightly challenging but with a good solid base and a taste that lingers.
UK	Tunnel	Linda Lear Ale	4	Refreshing drak amber ale with a rough porterish aftertaste.
UK	Tunnel	Meadowland	4	Gentle golden honey coloured pale ale that is reminicent of the beers of the Huyghe brewery, but with a quiter and gentler taste. A slight spiciness and citrus orange sit in the taste.
UK	Tunnel	Nelson Strong Ale	3	Soapy beer with a bit of glade air freshener. Builds steadily but the brewery does much better. Improves when served warmer with no sediment.
UK	Tunnel	Shadow-weaver	5	Chocolate stout with a sweet taste. Bundles of flavour with liqourice elements to it and much lighter than many other "real ale" stouts without sacrificing any depth or complexity.
UK	Tunnel	Sweet Parish Ale	2	Sour, yeasty, apricot tasting beer. Fairly flat and quite sour. Slightly akin to a kriek but with a blander flavour. Some said it was reminiscent of a freshly cleaned static caravan in France. A bit boring and very disappointing considering the calibre of the brewery.
UK	Tunnel	Trade Winds	2	Slightly thin, gassy and gently bitter ale with a citrus (grapefruit/lychee) edge and a dryness.
UK	Uley	Old Spot	2	Full bodied, dark coloured old ale that tastes like bad stout.
UK	Ulverston	Laughing Gravy	5	Bright and tasty copper coloured ale with a faint coffee after-taste. Made with a wide range of hops (Crystal, Amber, Chocolate, Torrified wheat, Amarillo and Golding hops) used to great effect.
Canada	Unibroue	Le Fin De Monde	3	Canadian take on a Belgian triple. Typical of the style in look and taste with a pleasing balance of gassiness, corriander and warming alcohol. Strong but not overwhelming. Lacks the depth & complexity of the very best triples but still a good beer.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Blonde	4	Crisp and light drinking Belgian abbey beer with a pleasing musky bitter sweet flavour. Has a bit of a kick to it.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Cuvee De Ermitage	3	Fizzy amber beer with toffee and fruit flavours. A bit dry and with a hint of paracetamol and a sour finish but a tad thin for it's 7% strength with the flavours competing against each other.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Dubbel	3	Spicy orange beer with a deep syrup sweetness. Hints of caramel and full of flavour but it didn't quite grab me.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Goud (Doree) 8	3	Solid wheat beer that slips down easily despite it's 8% strength.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Optimo Brune	3	Very strong, very sweet beer with caramel, malt and sweet fruit flavours. The alcholic edge is only passing in the flavour but is clearly potent. Goes well with game and desert apparently. The alcoholic edge dominates as the beer warms up. Basically it needs to be cold to mask the rough edges.
Belgium	Union	Grimbergen Tripel	4	Spicy, banana, caramel beer with an alcoholic edge. Interesting but not exceptional. Tastes a bit like a Delerium beer in it's potency.
Belgium	Union	Watneys Scotch	4	Dark, almost syrupy ale with a smooth sweet edge to it. Probably stronger that it feels, but very pleasing and interesting to drink.
Belgium	Val Dieu	Blonde	3	Creamy, banana, tasting Belgian blonde abbey beer. Small head and gold in colour with a moderate carbonation. Slightly sweet and butterscotch on the finish. Tastes a lot like a Belgian tripel but at 6% it is a touch lighter.
Belgium	Val Dieu	Brune	3	Dark red beer with a large white head that gently fades. It has a burnt, malty flavour with a champagne carbonation. It has a breadiness reminiscent of almost burnt toast. Hints of sugar brandy. Very drying with a slight hint of alcohol.
Belgium	Val Dieu	Tripel	3	Blonde beer with a gentle head and lacing. There is a big taste of black pepper with an alcoholic edge and a fair carbonation. Tastes less like a Belgian tripel than their blonde! Overall the Val Dieu beers are solid but lack a distinctive edge.
UK	Vale	Black Swan Dark Mild	4	Dark, "hand made", coffee-tasting porter with a slight flash of raspberry. Strong taste for it's low alcohol content (3.9%).
UK	Vale	Grumpling Premium Old Ale	4	Flat, dry and bitter ruby ale with a wonderful taste. Should go very well with beer snacks
Belgium	Van Diest	Fruli	1	Belgian white beer belnded with strawberries that is verging on the alcopop territory.
Belgium	Van Eecke	Kapittel Tripel Apt	1	Golden tripel with a big creamy head. The taste has an initial hint of pears that is then dominated by the taste of dry paracetemol. Very strong at 10% but with no depth of flavour. It tends to torch the taste buds.
Belgium	Van Eecke	Popperings Hommel Bier	3	Yeasty, citric beer with a bright gassiness. There is a caramelised strong alcoholic taste with slow building hops.
Belgium	Van Eecke	Watou Witbier	3	Unfiltered wheat beer with little head. Fairly nondescript taste but pleasant and refreshing.
Belgium	Van Honsebrouck	Bacchus Kriek	4	Moderately sweet kriek with a rounded cherry taste. Light and refreshing and much like Liefmaans. Could have more depth and bite. Sampled on draught.
Belgium	Van Honsebrouck	St Louis Gueuze	3	Light orange and corriander beer with a gentle fizz and a hint of apple. Doesn't have the sour musty edge of most lambics as it sweetened.
Belgium	Van Steenberge	Augustijn Grand Cru	3	Potent thick blonde triple with a creamy mouthfeel and a gentle corriander spice in the finish. A gentle gassiness lightens the overall feel.
Belgium	Van Steenberge	Gulden Draak	2	Very strong, almost treacly beer that tastes of barley wine. At 10.5% it is too strong to be enjoyed. The makers claim it is a dark tripel but it has more in common with quadrupels.
Belgium	Van Steenberge	Triple Van De Garre	4	Incredibly buttery blonde beer with a huge creamy head. The finish has a lingering spice akin to Delerium Tremens and there are elements of Duvel and wheatbeers too. Impressive. Housebeer at De Garre in Bruges.
Belgium	Van Steenberge	Van Celis De Witte	3	Light yellow, unfiltered wheat beer with a refreshing hoppy lemon. It feels very natural, is well balanced and goes down superbly on a hot day. What Kronenbourg Blanc should be. Taste does not linger. Apparently brewed to Pierre Celis original Hoegaarden wheat beer recipe.
Germany	Veltins	Pilsner	3	Crisp, slightly fruity lager with a kick to it. Develops a dry bitterness.
UK	Ventnor	Admiral Ale	4	Delicate golden ale with a hoppy, slightly cirtus flavour with a bitter edge. Would go very well in warm summer weather.
UK	Ventnor	Bestivale	4	Light and easy drinking beer that isn't too bland
UK	Ventnor	Golden Ale	5	Gentle golden ale with a taste that has elements of honey and grilled cheese.
UK	Ventnor	Oyster Stout	4	Light stout with no coffee/porter harsh edge. Very smooth and refreshing and made with real oysters.
UK	Ventnor	Sand Roch	5	Dark coloured smoked beer with a very salty flavour that is balanced by a steadily building, slightly sweet, malty aftertaste. The 3 main flavours combine together beautifully, though the beer feels a bit dehydrating. Like drinking a beer over the embers of a bonfire on a beach at night in a gentle breeze.
Belgium	Verhaeghe	Duchesse de Bourgogne	5	Onion marmalade and cherries in a beer that has a slight gueuze edge to it. Very fruity and a bit of a winter beer. Has a bit of balsamic vinegar to it. A classic flanders ale which has barley malt and is matured in oak casks for 18 months.
Belgium	Verhaeghe	Vichtenaar	4	Oak aged beer with an amber colour and a quickly fading head. Very tart flavour with a sweet cherry edge and a woody base. Not as regal as the duchesse but still fairly noble.
Australia	Victoria	Victoria Bitter	3	Perfectly pleasant Australia lager than slips down well when served cold.
USA	Victory	Golden Monkey	4	A US take on a Belgian triple. It's 9.5% strength is immediately apparent in it's warming flavour. There are gentle clove and spice elements in the background that are dominated by a dry spirit burn at the end. A sipping tripel.
Iceland	Viking	Gylltur	2	Crisp gassy lager with a dry, malt sweetness that gives it a refeshing edge. Fairly generic stuff.
Iceland	Viking	Malt	3	Icelandic alcohol free beer. Like the Egils Malt Extrakt this is a sweet, fruity, malty drink that tastes like liquid rye bread but it is slightly more gassy.
Iceland	Viking	Stout	4	Almost porterish stout with a bitter, coffee grounds taste but with a smooth creaminess to balance things out nicely. Very easy to drink.
Iceland	Viking	Thule	2	Gassy lager with a crisp malty edge that tastes like stella diluted with hard water (though it is just as strong). Perfectly serviceable but not great.
UK	Wadworth	Bishops Tipple	4	Fully flavoured strong ale with a floral and soapy edge to the taste. Has a bitter maltiness that builds as you work through a pint. Akin to Wychwood Osprey. Potent and easily drinkable. (Beer was 8 months out of date when tasted).
UK	Wadworth	Lily The Pink	3	Light gold beer with a creamy head and a shot of angostura bitters. Hoppy with a fresh citrus edge given a pleasingly complex floral twist and tingle by the bitters. Slightly spicy, dry and bitter in the finish.
UK	Wadworth	Malt And Hops	3	Golden ale with a dry bitter taste and a hint of beer snacks in the finish. Fairly thin but with a tanginess that saves it from a dull bland death.
Germany	Warsteiner	Premium Verum	4	"A princess among beers" according to it's brewers. This golden coloured pilsner has a crisp dry edge that fades into a bready taste with a faint hoppiness. Softly flavoured there is something in the lingering aftertaste that makes it very moreish. Uses hop extract rather than hops but still meets the German purity laws.
UK	Weatheroak	Keystone Hops	2	Bread, hops and grapefruit in a glass. This golden coloured beer with a creamy head is drinkable and well balanced but not to my taste.
Germany	Weihenstephan	Hefe Weissbeer	4	A Belgian triple meets a German wheatbeer. Gold and cloudy in colour with a strong banana taste filled out by a gassiness in the palate and a wheatbeer mouthfeel. Full, drinkable and very tasty.
Germany	Weihenstephan	Heffweisser Dunkel	3	Heady carbonated potent German weiss beer. Banana and caramel flavours with a strong kick.
Germany	Weihenstephan	Kristall Weissbeer	3	Banana and toffee flavoured filtered wheat beer with a gassy edge. Distinctive but not unpleasant.
UK	Wells	Bombardier	3	Basic light hoppy beer with a slightly tangy bitterness. Decent pub fodder but nothing special.
UK	Wells	Bombardier Burning Gold	4	Gentle blonde ale with a slowly rising hoppy wheaty taste. Refreshing and pleasingly understated.
UK	Wells	Bombardier Dark Satanic Mills	5	Dark beer with bovril, soy sauce and burnt sugar on the aroma but a smoother oatmeal, malty, slightly treacle taste. As it warms it becomes less intense with blackcurrent and chocolate notes starting to come through.
UK	Wells	Courage Best	2	Generic pub bitter fodder with a restrained dry hoppy flavour and a watery taste but enough of a solid mouthfeel to save it from being too bad. Drinkable but a tad bland.
UK	Wells	Courage Directors	3	Creamy amber ale very much in the vein of John Smiths. However the taste is a more balanced hoppy taste without a chemical edge.
Germany	Weltenburger	Kloster Asam-bock	1	Dark bavarian beer that tastes like burnt soy sauce - nasty.
UK	Wentworth	BeeSmoked	3	Dark blonde smoked beer with a sweet honeyed aftertaste that struggles to make itself felt. Odd but intriguing.
UK	Wentworth	Oatmeal Stout	4	Chocolate and coffee tastes vie for attention in this smooth, malty, full bodied stout that is very drinkable.
UK	Wentworth	Rampant Gryphon	4	Light coloured ale which is deceptively strong with a sharp bitter end. Interesting when consumed as a single pint.
UK	West Berkshire	Full Circle	4	Amber ale with a potent hoppy taste. A dryer edge than more deeply coloured ales and a very interesting pint. Definitely a solid and rewarding brewery.
UK	West Berkshire	Good Old Boy	5	Light hoppy ale that is deep brown in colour. Strongly flavoured for a 4% ale and a very good session beer that won't become overpowering but is not bland. It's bitter initial taste is quickly overtaken by a fruity, hoppy flavour that fades in the aftertaste.
UK	West Berkshire	Old Brown Ale	5	Deep, dark and thick ale that is more black than brown. Has hints of stout to the taste but is dominated by big wodges of hoppy flavour which are the beer frames well. A great example of a traditional English Ale.
Belgium	Westmalle	Dubbel	4	Smooth dark beer with a surprisingly gentle taste for it's strength when served chilled. Warmer, it has a gentle fizz and a subtle flavour like a typical dubbel tasted from a distance. There is a spiciness that comes through on draft that makes it a truly heavenly 5 star brew.
Belgium	Westmalle	Tripel	2	Heavy blonde ale with a deep bitterness. Like fighting through a deep fog. Not to my taste.
Belgium	Westvleteren	8	5	Earthy dark beer with a velvety coffee and liquorice taste balanced by a gentle bitterness. It tastes to it's best when not over chilled. Deeper and more bitter than the sweeter, complex 12, it has the heft of a stout but is smoother and more subtle.
Belgium	Westvleteren	12	5	Dark bitter trappist ale that is stunningly smooth. Almost closer to a liquor than an ale. A base that is a coffee tasting porter, with a spiced fruit top and a smooth middle. A beer so well balanced that it trips all the tastes receptors on the tongue equally and is absurdly packed with flavour. Deceptively drinkable and very fine indeed. The best beer in the world? There certainly aren't any finer.
Belgium	Westvleteren	Blonde	4	Cloudy blond beer with a wheaty and hoppy taste balanced by a bitter crispness. Gentle and very drinkable.
UK	Whim	Hartingdon Bitter	2	Light coloured bitter with a dry and slightly citric taste. The sister brewery of Broughton Ales.
UK	Wickwar	Rite Flanker	3	Solid flavoured tangy dark brown ale with a bright hoppy aftertaste.
Austria	Wieden Brau	Altbier	3	Cloudy amber beer with a big citrus hit that leads into a bright dry hoppiness with a touch of bitterness and a perfumed floral aftertaste. The dry bitterness is more pronounced when warm. Very light to drink for it's 5% strength.
Austria	Wieden Brau	Germischtes	3	Amber coloured mixture of light and dark beers with a mouth tingling gassiness akin to their Marzen but with a coffee hoppiness that is brightened with a floral edge. There is also a smokiness lurking in the background. A mixed bag of flavours - as you would expect. It is slightly too gassy for my taste which detracts from the flavour but generally it is good.
Austria	Wieden Brau	Marzen	3	Golden beer with a gassiness that plays on the roof of your mouth that fades into a faint rich layered hoppiness. Despite the sightly thin taste it's mouthfeel is quite expansive.
Austria	Wieden Brau	Prager Dunkles	4	Dark hoppy lager with a bitter coffee taste with notes of marmite on burnt toast. Very smooth in flavour and mouthfeel, quite dry and morish. Slightly plainer than the 7 Stern dunkle.
UK	Williams Bros	Birds And Bees	3	Dry, almost chalky golden ale with a strong citrus hop and a faint soapiness. Made with a Belgian pale malt and small amounts of elderflowers and lemon zest.
UK	Williams Bros	Ceildh	4	Full bodied lager with a robust maltiness that does not over power it's light fizz. A very solid and assured lager. Made with Czech and US hops, Belgian pilsner malt and German yeast.
UK	Williams Bros	Heather Ales - Alba (Scots Pine Ale)	4	Malty historic Scottish beer that feels like a Belgian brune ale. Contains sprigs of spruce and pine which give a slight edge to the taste, but this is a fairly traditional beer with a good depth of flavour.
UK	Williams Bros	Heather Ales - Ebulum	3	A black elderberry ale with a slightly burnt and earthy coffee taste. It also has a hints of fruit and soy sauce but very little aftertaste.
UK	Williams Bros	Heather Ales - Grozet	3	A 'gooseberry and wheat beer' brewed from a historic recipe which doesn't taste like a fruit beer or a wheat beer. Gently malty and slightly sweet with a small sour hint of gooseberries. A bit odd but not unpleasant.
UK	Williams Bros	Hop Quiz	3	A beer tasting game with four beers that are identical apart from the hops used (Saaz, Cascade, Styrian Goldings & Bramling Cross). All the beers are heavily hopped which leads to them being quite dry but with very strong flavours. Surprisingly good beer given the gimmick.
UK	Williams Bros	IPA	3	Hoppy, slightly caramel IPA with a hint of dryness in the back end. Has a bit of kick and an alcoholic aftertaste but it doesn't wreck the flavour.
UK	Williams Bros	Midnight Sun	4	Well balanced porter with a firm but balanced coffee grounds flavour and a spicy note. Made with a small amount of rot ginger. 5.6 abv but it has a faint whisky note to give it depth.
Belgium	Witkap Pater	Stimulo	5	Grassy, slightly citric, cloudy blond beer that feels very refreshing despite it's dry gassy taste. A good clean beer that would go down very well on a summers day.
Belgium	Witkap Pater	Tripel	4	A beer that offers a Hoegarden smell and wheaty body that has a soft dry taste with a blue cheese edge. Creamy and fully flavoured without delivering an exceptional hit.
UK	Wold Top	Falling Stone	3	Fairly standard easy drinking ale with a slightly caustic edge.
UK	Wooden Hand	Cornish Buccanner	4	Well balanced golden ale with a dry hoppy taste and a slight bitterness. There is a morish biscuity flavour in the background with a hint of citrus.
UK	Wooden Hand	Pirates Gold	3	Smooth, light brown ale with a gentle fruity hoppy taste. A tad bland but fair enough compared to the standard of bitter you get in most UK chain pubs.
UK	Woodforde	Nelson's Revenge	3	Solid session beer with a gentle malted taste. The floral aroma and citrus edge it claims to have eluded me completely.
UK	Woodforde	Wherry	4	Dark brown beer that has a deep bitterness in the aftertaste while remaining refreshing. Once voted champion beer of Britain, so trying it out of a paper cup was not ideal.
UK	Wychwood	BeeWyched	4	Bright and fruity taste with a sharp edge. Light in colour.
UK	Wychwood	Hobgoblin (bottle)	5	Dark, malty and slightly syrupy with a hint of caramel and prunes in the aftertaste. Smooth but full bodied and better in the bottle than on draught.
UK	Wychwood	Hobgoblin (cask)	3	Dark brown ale that appears to have had anything approaching a rough edge filed off with abandon. Not lacking flavour, just any kind of depth or complexity.
UK	Wychwood	Osprey	5	Strong ruby coloured ale with a flavour that doesn't vary from nose to aftertaste. It is a bold combination of fruit and hop flavours that is very satisfying but lacks a little complexity.
UK	Wychwood	Plumduff	4	A christmas beer that is chestnut in colour with flavours of plum, raisins and cinnamon. Finishes with a bitter acidity. Best enjoyed cold when it has more subtlety.
UK	Wye Valley	Dorothy Goodbody Country Ale	3	Ruby brown ale with on head and a fresh aroma. The taste is dry and bitter - almost granular - with a deep hoppiness that has elements of a porter underneath. Could have more complexity for it's 6% strength.
UK	Wye Valley	Dorothy Goodbody Golden Ale	3	Zesty blond beer that goes quite nicely with food.
UK	Wye Valley	Dorothy Goodbody Wholesome Stout	3	Pitch black in colour with a small creamy tan head and a gentle hop aroma. The flavour is all roasted coffee and burnt juices from a grill pan. There is a dry, bitter hoppiness hiding in the finish. Full bodied for it's 4.6% strength it is very pleasing but not exceptional.
UK	Wye Valley	Editors	3	Robust bitter hoppy English ale that is light brown in colour with a biscuity edge.
UK	Wye Valley	Hazy Daisy	3	Despite claiming to be naturally cloudy this wheat beer is a fairly clear gold and has a very small head. It has a very buttery shortbread with a brief toasty biscuit taste. Rich without being heavy.
UK	Wye Valley	HPA	3	Smooth, inoffensive light coloured ale that slips down quietly leaving a feeling of gentle refreshment.
UK	Wyre Piddle	Piddle Potters Chamber Of Secrets	1	Light coloured ale that tastes close to being off. Sour and metallic with hints of detergent. Bad name, bad beer. Thankfully it rapidly becomes bland very quickly.
UK	Yates	Summer Laze	3	Forgetable, but not unpleasant ale that Yates are no longer brewing.
UK	York	Centurian Ghost	3	Quite an oddity. Dark beer with a faint porter taste but dominated by a citrus edge.
UK	York	Yorkshire Terrier	3	Smooth, light coloured bitter. Slightly creamy with a gentle bitter hoppiness. A tad bland but pleasant enough.
UK	Youngs	Christmas Pudding	5	Dark beer with a lot of flavour and a strong spiced fruit aftertaste.

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