Review Posts

Pact Finca La Esperanza

After a remarkably booze-filled festive period, it's about time to get back to the caffeinated side of life! Today we're back to Central America, and the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala. Finca La Esperanza is a relatively light roasted coffee, as the picture hopefully shows. Despite this, the grounds have a rich fruity aroma - apricots ...

Redchurch Great Eastern IPA

I knew I wanted to end this little collection of beers with something spectacular, so it was with considerable pleasure that I found a couple of bottles of Redchurch lurking in the back of the cupboard. I've been a fan of their beers - and today's in particular - for a long time. They've featured ...

Owd Rodger

Marston's Brewery was (I think) the first brewery I ever toured, even it was by accident (we broke down in Burton and had some time to kill). Although they're not exactly a trendy company, they do own a lot of solid brands including Banks's and Brakspear and are (so Wikipedia tells me) the world's ...

Humpty Dumpty 15

Humpty Dumpty are a Norfolk brewery and I'm ashamed to say that's about the sum of my knowledge. I've not come across their beers making it all the way down here to London, although a quick glance at their Christmas beer pumpclips do make me wonder if I've seen them on Pump Clip Parade. (I'm ...

Redemption Fellowship Porter

I've always been a big fan of Redemption's beers, so it's with great pleasure that I've been watching the progress of their new brewery - moving to much larger premises any day now, which can only possibly mean more fantastic beer. I'm also delighted to have a rare opportunity to use an appropriate branded glass! Fellowship ...

Shepherd Neame Christmas Ale

Although the beers so far in this collection have been at least wintery in nature - mostly dark and often strong - this is the first genuinely seasonal beer. It's become a bit of a Christmas staple for me, not because it's the most incredible beer ever made but because its arrival marks ...

Fuller's Vintage 2005

A few months ago somebody on Twitter (I forget who, sorry!) pointed out that some of the prices in the Fuller's online shop for their vintage ales were... unusual. I can only assume that these prices are set by some automated process based on stock levels or something, because it's hard to believe that ...

Magic Rock Bearded Lady

Magic Rock are another one of those breweries that rarely disappoints. They are very 'craft', and the hysteria that sometimes surrounds some of their releases (I'm looking at you, Unhuman Cannonball) is a little daft, but it's hard to deny that they make some very, very tasty beers. Bearded Lady is a 10.5% ABV imperial ...

Pijl & Boog

Brouwerij de Molen is one of those breweries I find hard to resist when I see their simple black and white labels sat on the shelf. They're never subtle beers, and can be truly remarkable - which makes their often high price worth the gamble. The more observant among you may notice that I ...

Red Horse Beer

This is one of my guilty pleasures, and probably yet another nail in my 'craft beer blogger' coffin. Whenever we pop into Wing Yip, I can't resist picking up a bottle (or a case) of this stuff because it's absurdly cheap and pleasingly tasty. Also, as I've previously explored, this beer contains no actual horse, ...