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THE RED MACGREGOR

Advantages: A tasty session beer
Disadvantages: None visible

What makes someone decide on a particular beer? Picture the scene, you're standing at the bar (or the local bottle shop) scanning the range of ales on offer but just can't decide which beer to have. There are beers you've had before and didn't enjoy (so s ...

proxam 27.04.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Red Macgregor Ale

A good session beer

Advantages: Good light easy to drink ale
Disadvantages: Quite expensive for a canned beer

So Just what is Mild CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ales) defines Mild as: “Milds are black to dark brown to pale amber in colour and come in a variety of styles from warming roasty ales to light refreshing lunchtime thirst quenchers. Malty and possibly sweet t ...

warandpeace 23.06.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Marston's Bank's Mild

Warrior-an ale to slate the turst of welsh miners

Advantages: wonderfully welsh, understed and classy a real old world ale, all british
Disadvantages: neck label slightly askew,

Today the biggest and arguably the greatest pub in all of wales opens its doors that is to say it is the beggining of the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival which runs till the 18th. fitting then that a review be written about one of Wales little known but ...

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Review of Evan Evans Warrior

A great cask ale

Advantages: A very pleasant cask ale
Disadvantages: Limited availability (I suspect only the Midlands as originally a Nottingham beer)

...I hadn’t actually heard of Olde Trip until a few days ago when I saw it on draught in a local pub here in Leicester, brewed originally by Hardys & Hansons a Nottingham brewer, and made at the Kimberley Brewery in Kimberly Nottingham, sadly Greene King too ...

warandpeace 13.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Greene King Olde Trip

Ale for what ail's you?

Advantages: Interesting hoppy taste
Disadvantages: I wouldn't want to drink a lot of this beer

I am happy to admit that I like a good pint of English Ale; the complex flavour combinations, the wide variety of styles, the fact that most Americans have no clue why on earth you would want to have a beer that isn't chilled almost to freezing point: the ...

chiglo2001 14.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Sainsbury's Traditional Kentish Ale