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Woodforde’s Nelson’s Revenge

A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER August 2009 as part of a piece about beers for summer outdoor drinking, featuring this beer under its rebadged Norfolk Bitter label for Marks and Spencer. For more summer beers, see previous post.

The beer also featured in BEER May 2011 as part of a piece [...]

Wells and Young’s Young’s Bitter and Kew Gold

First published in BEER July 2008 as part of a piece on beers recently converted to bottle conditioning. Young’s Bitter also included in Top Tastings 2008.

ABV: 4.5 and 4.8 per cent
Origin: Bedford, Bedfordshire
Website www.wellsandyoungs.co.uk

Wells and Young's Young's Bitter

When you consider how perilously close British bottle conditioned beer was to extinction a couple of decades or [...]

Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. For more Welsh beers see previous post.

ABV:  4.2 per cent
Origin: Upper Cwmbran, Torfaen
Website www.cwmbranbrewery.co.uk

Cwmbran Crow Valley Bitter

When Martin Lewis and Keith Gullick first created this cottage brewery fed from a mountain spring under the shadow of Mynydd Maen in 1996, they [...]

Ffos y Ffin Cothi Gold and Paxton's Pride

First published in BEER March 2008 as part of a piece about Welsh beers. For more Welsh beers see previous post.

ABV:  3.9 and 5.5 per cent
Origin: Capel Dewi, Sir Gaerfyrddin
Website www.ffosyffinbrewery.co.uk

Bragdy Ffos y Ffin

Dairy farmer Glyn Lenton took over Ffos y Ffin farm outside Capel Dewi in rural Carmathenshire in 1990. Some years later he [...]

Allendale Best Bitter and Wolf

First published in BEER February 2008.

ABV:  3.8 and 5.5 per cent
Origin: Allendale, Northumberland
Website www.allendalebrewco.co.uk

Allendale Brewery beers

The small and remote riverside town of Allendale, just shy of Hadrian’s Wall, is home to one of England’s most youthful breweries. For brewer and co-founder Tom Hick it’s his first job since leaving college: he went from a zoology [...]

Humpty Dumpty Bad Egg

ABV: 4.1%
Origin: Reedham, Norfolk, England

Humpty Dumpty Bad Egg

This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the May 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected newsagents. For more beers [...]

Teignworthy Reel Ale

ABV: 4%
Origin: Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Website: www.teignworthybrewery.com

Teignworthy Reel Ale

This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the May 2010 issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected newsagents. For more [...]

Itchen Valley Godfathers

ABV: 3.8%
Origin: New Alresford, Hampshire, England
Website: www.itchenvalley.com

Itchen Valley Godfathers

This beer featured as a British Real Ale in a Bottle on the bottled beer review page in the current (May 2010) issue of BEER magazine, sent free every quarter to CAMRA members, who can also view it online. The magazine is also available in selected newsagents. For [...]

Sambrook's Wandle

London Beer Tastings 2011, London Drinker Beer Festival March 2010

A shorter version of this review was first published in BEER February 2010 as part of a piece about beers to taste with chocolate. For more beers tasted with chocolate, see Rulles JeanChris Numéro 1.

ABV: 4.2%
Origin: London SW11, England
Website: www.sambrooksbrewery.co.uk

Sambrook's Wandle

JeanChris No 1(reviewed in the previous post) [...]

Westerham British Bulldog (BB)

First published in BEER November 2006 as part of a piece about beers stocked by Tesco supermarkets. See previous post for more Tesco beers.

ABV: 4.3 per cent
Origin: Crockham Hill, Kent, England
Website: www.westerhambrewery.co.uk

As well as the Drinks Awards winners, Tesco has beers of interest on offer in its “local programme”, which covers 600 stores. The regional approach [...]


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