Morrisons December ale & beer offers (29th November 2010 - 2nd January 2011)

It's December's new beer & ale offers time in Morrisons so I popped into the local Ormskirk branch today to check them out.

Here are the details:
  • Greene King Suffolk Springer
    £1.53 instead of £2.03

Looks like Morrisons have picked some of the stronger richer more wintery ales to be on offer this time round. I'm a fan of a pint of Old Speckled Hen with chicken or turkey roast dinners I find the spiciness of the beer goes well with the white meat.

As the Suffolk Springer is the only one I've not 'baron rated' I would have bought one, but it was all gone (or rather they'd had no stock of it for around a month already...)

Williams Bros Good Times

Williams Bros Good Times [baron rating 5/5] - 5% gold ale,floral citrus smell,sweet elderflower citrus bitter taste,dry sweet floral finish
Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

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The labels on most of the Williams Bros. ales are really funky, with good use of typography & foil to create eye-catching bottles, click the image for a close-up of the Good Times label



This was from the autumn pack of the superb '52 week beer club' by myBrewerytap.

Join it now and make sure you say the baron made me do it!

Buy Williams Bros ales here

Looking forward to 'baron rating' Shepherd Neame ales very soon!

Beer god Zak Avery tweeted recently about trying Shepherd Neame's Christmas Ale and saying that it was really good. As I'm doing a Christmas-themed ales 'baron rating' special I thought it best to get in touch with Sheperd Neame and see if they wanted to send a sample bottle though. Well they excelled themselves as not only was there a bottle of the Christmas Ale in the box, there were five other bottles from their range:



Shepherd Neame Brewery
  • 1698 - 6.5% thrice-hopped generously malty ale
  • Bishops Finger - 5.4% Kentish strong ale
  • Christmas Ale - 7% winter fruits, festive spicy hops
  • Master Brew - 4% amber-russet ale, pungent Kentish hops & crystal malts
  • Spitfire - 4.5% The Bottle of Britain
  • Whitstable Bay - 4.5% clean refreshing organic ale
Look out for 'baron ratings' for these Shepherd Neame beers soon, and a big thank you to Rachel from Shepherd Neame for sending these through to me!

Buy Shepherd Neame ales here 

    The Ormskirk Baron presents Marble Beers

    Come down for an evening of beer at Source Deli on Saturday 29th January. Join The Ormskirk Baron and @Christopher_R for a beer-tasting night of one of our favourite UK breweries - Manchester's Marble Brewery

    Come and try Marble's regular bottled line-up (half a bottle of each):
    Photo by Pete Favelle

    You'll get to try a sample of their 'Special (2009)' - a 10.7% barley wine, plus once you've tried all five pick a bottle of your favourite to enjoy in store or alternatively to take home.  Bar snacks 'Source Deli style' will be provided by Paul & Matt of Source Deli.

    £17.50 per person - get your tickets from Source Deli

    Doors open at 8pm on Saturday 29th January

    There are only 25 0 places available so if you are interested please get yourself down to Source Deli ASAP!

    Update 24/01: I may have a spare ticket for sale if anyone is desperate,please email/tweet or leave a comment below...

    Hook Norton Flagship

    Hook Norton Flagship [baron rating 5/5] - 5.5% amber ale,spicy smell,full-bodied tangy spicy marmalade taste, lasting sugary spicy finish

    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Hook Norton for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Hook Norton ales here

    Looking forward to 'baron rating' Fyne Ales very soon!

    I put a call out recently for some Christmas-themed ales (including this video) and Fyne Ales responded with not only a sample or two of their Holly Daze but also a load more bottles of their excellent looking range:



    I love the design of the Fyne Ales range, each beer has it's own colour theme, clear information about ABV, simple but useful description and nice gold leaf detail to make them stand out on the shelf.

    Fyne Ales Brewery

    Look out for 'baron ratings' for these Fyne Ales beers soon, and a big thank you to Elaine from @FyneAles for sending these through to me!

    Buy Fyne Ales here

    Wold Top Mars Magic

    Wold Top Mars Magic [baron rating 3/5] - 4.6% dark amber ale,caramel chocolate roasted smell,caramel & berries taste,slight burnt finish


    Thank you to Wold Top for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Wold Top ales here

    Hardknott Dark Energy

    Hardknott Dark Energy [baron rating 4/5] - 4.9% black ale,dark berries & roasted smell,smooth fruity toasted malt taste,juicy fruity finish

    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

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    Thank you to Dave and Ann from Hardknott for handing this over for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Hardknott ales here and here

    Mallinsons Station

    Mallinsons Station [baron rating 5/5] - 4.2% pale gold ale,citrus grapefruit smell,balanced sweet grapefruit taste,dry bittersweet finish
    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    This was from the autumn pack of the superb '52 week beer club' by myBrewerytap.

    Join it now and make sure you say the baron made me do it!

    Buy Mallinsons ales here

    Christmas Beers with The Ormskirk Baron (teaser)

    We are going to do a 'Christmas Beers' audio special at the beginning of December, running though a range of xmas-themed ales giving them 'baron ratings'.

    As a warm-up we thought we would do a little video detailing some of the beers in the line-up, please let us know what you thought of the video, we had a lot of fun doing it!

    Wold Top Summer Holiday

    Wold Top Summer Holiday [baron rating 3/5] - 5.5% dark amber ale,light roasted malt smell,sweet fruity slight choc taste,malty fruity finish

    I don't 'get' the name on this one, to me it's more of an Autumn ale, not one I would be drink on my summer holiday! Wold Top care to explain?


    Thank you to Wold Top for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Wold Top ales here

    Keely Chey Crazy Eyes

    Keely Chey Crazy Eyes [baron rating 3/5] - 4.5% copper ale,yeasty tangy citrus smell,caramel bittersweet taste, peardrop bitter finish

    St Austell HSD

    St Austell HSD [baron rating 4/5] - 5% amber ale,balanced fruity toffee smell,toffee malty taste, fruity bitter finish


    Thank you to StAustellBrew from St Austell for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy St Austell ales here

    Atlantic Fistral

    Atlantic Fistral [baron rating 1/5] - 5.2% completely flat gold ale,slight fruity spicy aroma,citrus mild tangy taste,dry tangy finish

    I've not been overly impressed with the four Atlantic beers that I've 'baron rating' - their bottle-conditioning seems very hit & miss and most of the time results in a cloudy but completely flat ale. If this is 'real ale' then I don't want it!


    Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Atlantic ales here

    Marble Chocolate Marble

    Marble Chocolate Marble [baron rating 4/5] - 5.5% black ale,choc & blackberry smell,rich choc & fruity taste,long dark choc bitter finish

    Buy Marble ales here or here

    HopZine/PDTNC Stateside Torpedo

    HopZine/PDTNC Stateside Torpedo [baron rating 5/5] - 6.9% copper ale,piney sticky sweet smell,balanced bittersweet taste,bittersweet finish

    Wold Top Golden Summer

    Wold Top Golden Summer [baron rating 4/5] - 4.4% gold ale,fruity slightly sweet smell,balanced fruity slightly floral taste,fruity finish


    Thank you to Wold Top for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Wold Top ales here

    Looking forward to 'baron rating' Odell ales very soon!

    Richard from myBrewerytap  is looking after me again, this time in the form of a mixed selection of Odell Brewing Co. ales:


    Odell Brewing Co.

    • IPA - 7% bold & flavourful



    I really love the label design and bottle tops on these bottles - so much thought has gone into the look (and feel) of the bottles.  I hope the beer lives up to the presentation!



    Look out for 'baron ratings' for these Odell ales soon, and a big thank you to Richard from myBrewerytap for sending these through to me!

    Buy Odell ales here

    Grape vs Grain presentation video by Charles Bamforth

    Rob from HopZine pointed out an excellent video today on beer, a talk from Charles Bamforth given at Google where he discusses 'Grape vs Grain'.



    He's an excellent speaker, doesn't use a single slide and yet captures your attention all the way through this hour-long presentation - a sign of a class presenter!

    Het Anker Maneblusser

    Het Anker Maneblusser [baron rating 3/5] - 6% gold ale,tart yeasty smell,sweet cloves slightly tart taste,sweet vanilla & cloves finish
    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Het Anker ales here

    Marble Manchester Bitter

    Marble Manchester Bitter [baron rating 5/5] - 4.2% gold ale,hoppy caramel smell,smooth caramel & citrus taste,slight fruity bitter finish

    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Richard from myBrewerytap for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    This was also part of the autumn pack of the superb '52 week beer club' by myBrewerytap.

    Join it now and make sure you say the baron made me do it!

    Buy Marble ales here or here

    Titanic Captain Smiths

    Titanic Captain Smiths [baron rating 4/5] - 5.2% amber ale,slightly nutty smell,balanced tangy juicy malt taste,tangy bitter finish
    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Titanic ales here

    Young's Double Chocolate Stout

    Young's Double Chocolate Stout [baron rating 5/5] - 5.2% black ale,roasted choc smell,smooth rich dark choc taste,choc clean bitter finish

    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Young's for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Crouch Vale Essex Boys

    Crouch Vale Essex Boys [baron rating 4/5] - 4% dark amber ale,nutty fruity smell,toasted bittersweet taste,nutty bitter slight burnt finish
    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

    Subscribe in iTunes


    Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy Crouch Vale ales here

    St Austell Proper Job

    St Austell Proper Job [baron rating 5/5] - 5.5% copper ale,spicy citrus orange smell,sweet spicy chewy caramel taste,piney bitter finish
    Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

    Download flash to hear the audio review

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    Note: Bottle conditioned with perfect carbonation

    Thank you to StAustellBrew from St Austell for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

    Buy St Austell ales here

    Mauldons Suffolk Pride

    Mauldons Suffolk Pride [baron rating 3/5] - 4.8% copper ale,floral caramel smell,balanced slightly floral taste,soft slightly sweet finish

    Looking forward to 'baron rating' Hook Norton ales very soon!

    Hook Norton recently announced that they had released a new beer, a bottle-conditioned IPA called 'Flagship'.  They were kind enough to send a bottle through for a 'baron rating' along with some others in their range that I've not tried before:


    Hook Norton Brewery
    • A Shining Light - 4.5% pale ale
    • Double Stout - 4.8% smooth & full bodied
    • Flagship - 5.5% bottle conditioned IPA
    • Twelve Days - 5.5% deliciously dark & strong

    Look out for 'baron ratings' for these Hook Norton beers soon, and a big thank you to @HookyBrewery from  Hook Norton for sending these through to me!

    Buy Hook Norton ales here

    Waitrose November ale & beer offers (10th November - 7th December 2010)

    It's November's new beer & ale offers time in Waitrose, their PR staff informed me of what this month's ale offers are:

    • Badger Poacher's Choice [baron rating coming soon]
      £1.64 instead of £2.05
    • Greene King Very Special IPA [baron rating coming soon]
      £1.49 instead of £1.99
    • Wychwood Mixed 4 Pack
      £5.35 instead of £6.69
    • Marston's Head Brewers Choice 4 Pack
      £5.08 instead of £6.35
    There are quite a few Badger ales within the 'baron bargain' price range (£1.30 or less) and some good discounts on the stronger end of the ales market.

      Hogs Back TEA

      Hogs Back TEA [baron rating 4/5] - 4.2% dark amber ale,caramel smell,sweet slightly fruity taste,dry caramel tannin-like bitter finish
      Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

      Download flash to hear the audio review

      Subscribe in iTunes


      This was from the autumn pack of the superb '52 week beer club' by myBrewerytap.

      Join it now and make sure you say the baron made me do it!

      Buy Hogs Back ales here

      Wentworth Oyster Stout

      Wentworth Oyster Stout [baron rating 4/5] - 4.8% black ale,roasted malt & coffee smell,choc coffee liquorice taste, smoky bittersweet finish


      Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

      Buy Wentworth ales here

      Details of the AlesByMail Advent Calendar Christmas beer selection box

      Back in October AlesByMail announced that they are doing an advent calendar mixed case of 24 select bottles to see you through the advent season. I spoke to Paul in more depth about the advent calendar when judging at SIBA North and he reviled something a little special.

      Not only do you get 24 bottles of ale in a box, but the box is designed with little doors that you open one a day until Christmas - not just a normal box of ale but a proper advent calendar box of ale. Here's a shot of the 'work in progress' advent calendar box.

      Doesn't that look cool? As a 'baron exclusive', here's the contents of the box (although I'm not sharing which beer is behind which door):

      • Anchor Brewery Christmas 2009 5.5%
      • Atlantic Apple Beer
      • Beaumonts Alcoholic Ginger Beer 4%
      • Breaconshire Cribyn 4.5%
      • Brentwood Brewery Spooky Moon 3.8%
      • Calvors Amber Lager 4.0%
      • Compass Brewery Isis 4.9%
      • Conway Clogwyn Gold 3.6%
      • Cotleigh Red Nose Rein Beer 5.0%
      • Exmoor Gold 5%
      • Green Valley Cyder Dragon Tears 4.7% (cider)
      • Hoggleys Solitice Stout 5.0%
      • Hopdaemon, Green Daemon 5.0%
      • Humpty Dumpty Christmas Crack
      • Iceni It's a Grand Day, 4.5%
      • Laverstoke Park Organic Real Ale 5.0%
      • Moor Fusion 8%
      • Orkney Northern Light 4.0%
      • Pen-lon Chocolate Stout 4.5%
      • RCH Ale Mary 6.0%
      • Salopian Brewery Darwins Origin 4.3%
      • Summerskills Brewery Turkeys delight 5.1%
      • Teme Valley Whatever Next 5%
      • Teignworthy Christmas Cracker 6.0%
      It looks like a great selection of beers all the way from lagers, ciders & golden ales, to fruity spicy ones and even stouts. I can't think of a beer drinker who wouldn't want one of these to kick-off the Christmas season!

      Buy the AlesByMail Advent Calendar here

      Morrisons November ale & beer offers (8th - 28th November 2010)

      It's November's new beer & ale offers time in Morrisons so I popped into the local Ormskirk branch today to check them out.

      Here are the details:
      • Brains SA Gold [baron rating coming soon]
        £1.25 instead of £1.67
      • Greene King Suffolk Springer
        £1.53 instead of £2.03
      A long list of offers this month and most are pretty good, there's quite a deduction on the strong ales, I think my 'baron pick' is the Adnams Broadside, it's so rich & smooth - perfect for long cold nights at home!

      Conwy Rampart

      Conwy Rampart [baron rating 4/5] - 4.5% amber ale,caramel floral smell,frothy sweet fruity bitter taste,fruity slightly sweet finish


      Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

      Buy Conwy ales here

      Meantime London Pale Ale

      Meantime London Pale Ale [baron rating 4/5] - 4.3% gold ale,marmalade smell, tangy fruity bittersweet taste,slightly tart lasting finish


      Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

      Buy Meantime ales here

      Goodbye Thornbridge's Kelly Ryan

      Goodbye Kelly Ryan
      Thornbridge Head Brewer
      Sometime previous til November 2010


      You are an inspiration to the UK brewing scene,
      you brought Nelson Sauvin to our shores,
      and now you are buggering off...

      ...that gets a [baron rating 0/5]



      Goodbye and all the best mate!

      Willoughby Trust Gold

      Willoughby Trust Gold [baron rating 3/5] - 3.8% pale gold ale,zesty citrus smell,light sulphurous grapefruit taste,dry sulphurous finish

      Tesco Finest Traditional Porter

      Tesco Finest Traditional Porter [baron rating 5/5] - 6% black ale,roasted fruit smell,smooth sweet roasted taste,long roasted bitter finish


      Note: This is basically Harviestoun Old Engine Oil [baron rating 5/5] with a Tesco Finest label on it.

      Moorhouse's Blond Witch

      Moorhouse's Blond Witch [baron rating 3/5] - 4.5% golden ale,slight floral aroma,light sweet floral hoppy taste,dry slightly sweet finish

      Marble Vuur & Vlam

      Marble Vuur & Vlam [baron rating 5/5] - 7.2% copper ale,tropical piney smell,sweet resiny citrus taste,sweet hoppy bittersweet finish


      Buy Marble ales here

      Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter

      Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter [baron rating 5/5] - 8.7% black ale,sweet roasted smell,thick dark roasted taste,sweet hoppy roasted finish


      Buy Flying Dog ales here and here

      Adnams Broadside

      Adnams Broadside [baron rating 5/5] - 6.3% ruby ale,boozy fruity smell,smooth full bodied roasted dried fruit taste,burnt raisin finish
      Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

      Download flash to hear the audio review

      Subscribe in iTunes


      Buy Adnams ales here

      Tesco Finest American Double IPA - 3 for £4 in Tesco (3rd - 30th Nov 2010)

      Tesco has 330ml bottles of Tesco Finest American Double IPA [baron rating 5/5] on offer: 3 for £4 until 30th Nov.It's BrewDog Hardcore IPA!

      Tesco Finest American Double IPA

      Tesco Finest American Double IPA [baron rating 5/5] - 9.2% amber ale,piney tropical smell,boozy sweet spicy/pine taste,extreme bitter finish


      Note: This is basically BrewDog Hardcore IPA [baron rating coming soon] with a Tesco Finest label on it.

      Great Marble beers selection in Ormskirk's Source Deli

      Popped into Source Deli in Ormskirk today to collect the Marble ales that Paul had put to one side for me from his recent order with Marble Brewery. This is what I picked up:


      Marble Brewery
      • Chocolate Marble - 5.5% stout(ish) and rich
      • Vuur & Vlam - 7.2% American-style IPA
      I'm really looking forward to 'baron rating' the two I've not tried yet, those bottles of Vuur & Vlam look amazing!

      Other exciting news: Marble are now (finally) on Twitter, follow @MarbleBrewers for the latest news!

      Itchen Valley Wat Tyler

      Itchen Valley Wat Tyler [baron rating 3/5] - 5% dark amber ale,toffee smell,slightly floral juicy malt taste,malty bitter finish

      Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

      Download flash to hear the audio review

      Subscribe in iTunes


      Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

      Buy Itchen Valley ales here

      Judging the SIBA North Beer Competition 2010

      A couple of month's ago I found out that not only was there going to be a Northern Beer Festival but also they were looking for judges to assist in the SIBA North Region Beer Competition 2010. After a few tweets and emails I had confirmation from SIBA that The Ormskirk Baron was indeed going to be a judge at the event.

      I've been 'baron rating' ales now for a bit over a year and never judged a beer competition so I was really looking forward to seeing how it all worked.

      The day was last Thursday (28th October) and Chris (also picked as a judge) & myself got the train from Aughton Park to Manchester Oxford Road (via Liverpool). The judging and following beer festival was in the Grand Hall, a massive room down in the bowels of the building. Tandleman & numerous other beer volunteers had been extremely busy over the previous days assembling the largest row of handpulls that I've ever seen.

      First of all we collected our official name badges and I was pretty chuffed,see you yourself:




      On the badge were the table numbers you were to sit at for the three normal rounds of judging, my preference was for bottled ales (as that is the focus of this blog) and they respected that pretty well - I was judging bottled beers for all three rounds!

      After that there was around thirty minutes to 'mingle', which basically means find the people that you already know and don't move from that spot! Luckily we found Richard from myBrewerytap, Glyn from Utobeer, Rob from HopZine & Jeff Pickthall so the time past pretty quickly.

      There were around thirty tables in the hall, seating about six people per table (although not all tables were full for each round). We were told how to judge & score the beers and that unlike wine tasting it was pretty important that we swallowed the beer rather than spit it out in order to assess the aftertaste.
       
      Appearance was scored out of ten (with clarity a very important part), aroma was also out of ten. Taste was out of twenty and the aftertaste was out of ten. An interesting additional score was require for saleability (which was also scored out of ten) - this ended up being one of the hardest scores to give, how saleable is a 10% hop monster?

      My first round was for "Bottled Bitter (up to 4.9%)" and I judged it along with Paul from AlesByMail. We were later joined by Matt Lambert from Label Apeel who due to travel issues had a lot of catching up to do! We judged nine beers in just under an hour - it was a lot more fast paced than I thought it was going to be.

      The bottled beers had been decanted into a jug first which just had a number, that number along with the scores were written down on the judging sheet and then totalled up at the bottom to give an overall score for the beer.

      Next up was "Bottled Bottled Porters, Milds, Old Ales & Stouts" - we had an hour to judge eleven different black beers - there are only so many scores to can give for a jet black ale with a mocha head!

      The final round was "Bottled Gold Beers" which was a little slower paced, we had six different ones to try and they were a little more varied than some of the other rounds.

      Once us 'normal' judges had finished a select panel of experts disappeared off into a separate room to do the final judging of the competition and pick the overall winners. Whilst they were sampling the rest of the room was being packed up and turned into the Great Northern Beer Festival 2010.

      The festival was open to the public at 4pm, luckily we finished judging the final round about 3pm so we had the pick of the beers to ourselves. From this moment the day starts to become a bit of a blur but I remember speaking to Matt & Katie from the excellent Hawkshead brewery, two top guys from Bushy's brewery - the 'ale of man'. There was also much banter with plenty of chaps from the Twitter beer circle as well as talking to some of the award winners mainly the Ossett brewery team & the Ilkley brewery guys.

      I had a thoroughly excellent day, really enjoyed the whole judging process and would jump at the chance to do it again - thank you SIBA for allowing me to be part of an excellent competition and beer festival!

      SIBA has a full list of the award winners on their site, as well as a load of great photos from the day.
      Thanks also go to SIBA who kindly allowed me to use their images in this blog post.

      Meantime Chocolate

      Meantime Chocolate [baron rating 3/5] - 6.5% dark ruby ale,sweet dark choc smell,refreshing bittersweet choc taste,bittersweet choc finish

      Listen to what Chris and the Baron have to say about it.

      Download flash to hear the audio review

      Subscribe in iTunes


      Thank you to Paul from AlesByMail for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

      This was also part of the autumn pack of the superb '52 week beer club' by myBrewerytap.

      Buy Meantime ales here and here

      Beams British Ales pack for £3.99 in B&M Bargains

      Was doing my weekly browse of the Ormskirk B&M Bargains today, looking for any cheap un-'baron rated' ales to pick up to add to my ever growing beer box. Found an interesting looking mixed pack called "British Ales" from Beams International:


      It was priced at £3.99 and contains four 275ml bottles of:
      • Cotswold Farm Ale - 3% ale
      • Felinfoel Double Dragon - 4.2% full drinking premium Welsh ale
      • Ridgeway TVA - 3.4% Thames Valley Ale
      • Young's Light Ale - 3.2% light refreshing bitter

      An interesting selection of low ABV ales from real breweries, not the usual nameless rubbish that normally fills these types of Christmas gift packs.

      For £4 I thought it was reasonable value as a basic ale gift pack (not sure if they are any good though) - I found the same pack on the Boots website selling for a quite unreasonable £8!