Sharp’s Atlantic IPA 4.5% ABV
It's okay, and compared to something like Doombar, yes it's crisp and pale, but there are plenty of really 'exceptional' pale ales out there.
View ArticleWychwood Firecatcher 3.5% ABV
There's a honey richness in the flavour, there are hints of pineapple, and that's about it, no intense gooseberry, and sadly not even the threat of alcohol.
View ArticleCh’Nord Biere de Garde 7% ABV
Bottled and labelled as a bière de garde, when I uncorked the 75cl bottle, the nose was nothing like I expected. There is a tartness in the nose that is reminiscent of a Belgian brew, almost a Saison'
View ArticleHotel Chocolat Dark Cocoa Beer 4.75% ABV
Here's a brew that came out of left field, a porter brewed by 'The Brew Shed' microbrewery in Bury St Edmunds (home of Greene King) for Hotel Chocolat, an up-market chain of Chocolate boutiques.
View ArticleBass Number One Ale 4.4%
Bass claim that this is still brewed "according to its original recipe", but I suspect that 'according to' are the weasel words, or more accurately 'according'. It's okay, it's just not that special....
View ArticleBlue Point Hoptical Illusion IPA 7% ABV
Day Four December 4th and another new brewery to me, Blue Point Brewing Company from long Island, New York. According to the brewery’s website: “Long Islanders want more than the status quo, they want...
View ArticleFlying Dog Easy IPA 4.7% ABV
All in all I found this to a pleasant enough quaffing brew, but pretty insubstantial.
View ArticleBirra del Borgo Cortigiana 5% ABV
Beer Fourteen Okay, so clearly trying to review a beer a day was too much for even me. Somewhere along the line I decided that my palate and beer mojo just weren’t up for it. Clearly my personal...
View ArticleThornbridge Mango Halcyon 7.4% ABV
Whatever other fruits are in the nose are swamped by the slightly under-ripe mango, and any Halcyon flavours, so powerful in the source brew, are almost completely drowned out by the near sweetness of...
View ArticleMotörhead Roadcrew American Pale Ale 5% ABV
I'm going to give this two Brewclub Stars, and if you can perceive a faint 'whooshing' sound, that might be Lemmy spinning in his grave at what's been perpetrated in Motörhead's name.
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