Advantages: Great beer from one of the best breweries Disadvantages: Strong beer at 6.3%
Over the past 4-5 years I've gone from lager drinker and occasional real ale drinker, to real ale and occasional lager drinker. This is perfectly natural. As you age, your taste buds start to wear out, with the area at the front of your tongue going first ...
Advantages: Tasty and not hard to find Disadvantages: Not all that easy to find either
Arriving at the pub of a Friday evening is always something of a step into the unknown. Granted, the pub is where it's always been, the name hasn't changed and the decor's much the same. In fact, the Livingston Inn has been serving up pints of ale and hea ...
Advantages: Strong, full flavoured, gloriously coloured English beer Disadvantages: Just a tad too bitter from regular drinking
...I have drifted back time and again to the south east corner of England in the pursuit of good tasting brews. Just across the Thames estuary from one of my favourites (Shepherd Neame in Faversham) is Adnams of Southwold, Suffolk. I tried one of their (stan ...
Advantages: Fruity, full bodied and tasty...a bit like me! LOL. Disadvantages: Doesn't really mix with food because of the distinct taste.
I went out for lunch with my parents last week, after a shopping trip to the MacArthur Glen Retail Park. We stopped at a pub on the way home, at a place called Winsick (not too far away from Chesterfield), at the New Inn. I asked for a pint of Magnet, but ...
Advantages: Great taste and holds it's head well. Disadvantages: None with the exception of a hang over if you drink too many.
I first discovered Adnams ale when on a family holiday in Southwold, Suffolk. Southwold is a town where they have a working lighthouse in the middle of the town and the brewery still delivers the barrels of beer by house and cart to the local pubs.
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