Beer in the Evening

Purchase Location: My Local Supermarket
Serving: 500ml bottle
Session suggestion: Good (5 bottles)
ABV: 3.8%
You don’t get much more character in presence that a Wychwood Brewery production, just the bottle illustrations really set each brand apart, from the ghoulish and sinister to English humor (I’m thinking ‘The Dogs Bollocks’ here) each bottle looks like it has harkened from […]

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Purchase Location: My Local Supermarket
Serving: 500ml bottle
Session suggestion: Medium-Good (4-5 bottles, if you can hack it!)
ABV: 4.7%
This is part of my Beer booty experience at my local supermarket, - I’ve picked up some Ruddles Rhubarb because they guy next to me mused it then added 6 bottles to his trolley, “he’s not having it all, the swine!”  […]

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Purchase Location: My Local Supermarket
Serving: 500ml bottle
Session suggestion: Medium (3 bottles)
ABV: 5.4%
Shepherd Neame oldest brewery in Britain, a well established name amongst pubs these days, walk into any Wetherspoons, Green King or a Punch Tavern pub and you’re sure to find a Shepherd Neame brew on tap.
It’s worth noting then, I’m not in a pub, I’ve […]

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Purchase Location: Bateman Brewery online shop
( www.bateman.co.uk )
It’s that time of year again, no I don’t just mean Christmas, I mean winter warmer ale season.  This year I  am sampling the Bateman Breweries ‘Rosey Nosey’.  English masters of brewing seasonal ales, Batemans winter warmer suggests that it “Compliments any Turkey”… well, with this in my hand […]

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Purchase location the Bateman Brewery online shop.
( www.bateman.co.uk )
Here it is folks, if ever there was a need for a drum roll, or a clap of thunder under a perfectly black rain cloud English sky, it is now.  I’ve waited two months to write about this beer, Batemans Dark Lord, patiently ushering other beers and ales onto this Blog knowing full […]

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