Tweed Brewing Co. New World Pale (5%)
Not too shabby, you might not hunt this down specifically, but if you found it on the bar you’d be more than happy with a pint or two. Tweed’s New World Pale is just that, a Pale Ale with lots …...
View ArticleTweed Brewing Co. Orange County IPA (4.3%)
This is a rather nice little beer brewed with oranges, though whether or not it’s an IPA or a Pale Ale remains to be seen. Whatever it calls itself it’s pleasant to drink and I’d happily spend an...
View ArticleEden Brewery First Emperor (4.6%)
This is a very good Pale Ale, though it’s not an IPA as billed, not by any stretch of the imagination. What you get here is a bright amber beer with a tiny little head and a smell that’s all … Continue...
View ArticleTiny Rebel Brewing Co. Clwb Tropicana (5.5%)
An IPA brewed with fruit juice, Clwb Tropicana is alright if a little sickly in the middle. The beer pours a nice pale gold with a fluffy head and smells of those pineapple chunk sweets we used to get...
View ArticleOmnipollo Mazarin (5.6%)
This is a very good Pale Ale packed with fruity flavours. It pours a cloudy apricot with a foamy head and smells of satsuma, peach and pineapple. There’s a solid malt backbone that provides caramel and...
View ArticleBedlam Brewery Pale (4.8%)
Pouring a rich gold with a little fizzy head, this is a decent little Pale Ale. The body is a chewy caramel, hay bale, rich tea biscuit and runny honey malt, an the aroma is packed with very similar...
View ArticleGipsy Hill Brewing Co. Day Tripper #2 (5.5%)
Now this, this is lovely. It’s a Pale Ale brewed with a mixture of hops as long as your arm and a load of orange zest for added zip. Th beer pours a rich gold with a fuzzy cream coloured … Continue...
View ArticleFive Clouds Brewing Shibui (4.9%)
I really like the artwork on this little beer’s can. Mainly because I’m a sucker for a good font. This is a decent little Pale Ale as it goes, though it started a bit yeasty and gassy, pouring with a …...
View ArticleToast Ale Ltd. Toast (5%)
I like the idea of this, a beer brewed with unsold loaves and leftover crusts, a beer that uses waste and gives money to Feedback which is an anti food waste charity. All of that I like. And I quite …...
View ArticleMoor Beer PMA (5.3%)
PMA is a Pale Modern Ale with Positive Mental Attitude, a beer whose sales help the HXC (Hardcore Hits Cancer) charity. And that is a very good thing. It also happens that PMA is a very good beer that...
View ArticleHart Family Brewers Kimber Reserve 2017 (8%)
Named in honour of the brewer’s grandfather, this is a super beer that has been brewed with a Belgian yeast strain, barrel aged in oak and then blended before being dry hopped with UK grown Cascade...
View ArticleFirst Chop Pop (5.4%)
Perhaps it’s whatever First Chop are doing to remove gluten that’s made this beer feel weird, but whatever it is there’s something not quite right about this can of Pop. And it’s a real pity as I have...
View ArticleCloudwater Brew Co. DDH Amarillo Pale (5.5%)
Cloudwater continue to be almost unstoppable in the breadth and depth or their range, and near faultless in their execution. Take this sexy little can of Pale Ale for example. Dry hopped with Amarillo,...
View ArticleTwo Table Beers
As a general rule I steer clear of low alcohol beer. I like the body and punch of stronger beer and often find that the really low ABVs make for athin and heartless drink. But occasionally I come...
View ArticleWild Horse Brewing Co. Mosaic Single Hop Pale Ale (4.9%)
A few weeks ago I was in the tiny village of Bethesda, in the foothills of Snowdonia. My band were waiting to soundcheck at the amazing Neuadd Ogwen and we were sitting in the pub next door. On the bar...
View ArticleBlack Flag Brewery Pale Mosaic Simcoe (5.5%)
Want a slightly cloudy beer with the hops singing love songs of lychee and peach, mango and lemongrass? Then look no further as Black Flag, who continue to impress, give you just that. The beer smells...
View ArticleTwisted Barrel Ale Raspberry Ripple Sour (3.5%)
This is a delight. It’s gentle and subtle, yet full of flavour. Pouring a pinky peach with a little foamy head, the aroma is freshly squished red berries, and as you take a swig you are immediately...
View ArticleWylam Brewery Swipe Right SPA (4.7%)
Another stunning beer from Wylam, this little Pale Ale is head and shoulders above most of its contemporaries. Yes, it does all the same things, pouring a bright gold with a little foamy head and...
View ArticleBlackjack Brewery Jabberwocky (4.1%)
A Pale Ale with a touch of rye, I love everything about this beer apart from the spelling and grammar on the label. But then I’m a pedant about that kind of thing. Jabberwocky is a soft and gentle,...
View ArticleRyeclops: Weird Beard’s Horror Movie Triple Header
Attack Of The Ryeclops (5.5%) I love rye, I really do. I’ve said it so many times before and I’ll keep on keeping on with it. And here the rye is king, bringing a dirty sexiness, an earthy dryness, a …...
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