Latest, made for ALDI

These are some of the small bottles brewed for ALDI, I think there are more but I will have to add them later.

Twickenham Fine Ales (ALDI), Red Rye IPA from England

 

4.7% amber in colour with a nice head, a citrus IPA aroma and a nice hoppy taste.

Brains (ALDI), Spill The Beans Coffee Porter from England

 

4.4% deep red in colour with a poor head, as it said on the bottle it had chocolate and caramel in the aroma and taste.

Hogs Back (ALDI), Sunny Dayz from England

 

3.8% gold in colour with a thin head, sweet hoppy aroma, not too hoppy a taste in fact quite nice.

Hogs Back (ALDI), All 4 One from England

 

4.5% gold in colour with a thin head, faint hop aroma, really nice citrus hop and malt taste.

Sadler's (ALDI), Land of Liberty American Style IPA from England

 

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, hop aroma and a zesty hop taste.

Real Ale and Craft Beer???

Just a note to say that to me, Beer is Beer, no matter what it is (lager, beer, stout, wheat, you get it), most I like, some are dreadful, but as a beer drinker the terms Real Ale and Craft Beer do not mean a thing to me. If a beer tasted good then it is good, if it tastes bad then it is bad (to me that is) and some Real Ales are pretty bad, it is just one of those things.

I am getting old and have drank many, many, beers, sometimes I think I should pack it in and just drink what I like but no I will carry on for a few years yet. The thing is, I enjoy what I do, even with the foul beers I have tried (and I mean foul) have been worth it, now I know not to get them again.

August 2017

Here are three of the beers I had in August, as usual I am trying to catch up, the holiday in July and the amount of beers I had then have made it harder. These are all follow ups to brewers that I have done before.

Charnwood, IPA from England

 

5.8% amber in colour with a nice head, slight toffee aroma and a bitter hoppy taste.

Richmond, Drummer Boy from England

 

3.8% amber in colour with a thin head, nice bitter aroma it had a strange bitter taste.

Shepherd Neame, Artesian Light Ale from England

 

3.8% gold in colour with a poor head, an ordinary bitter aroma and a bitter taste.