Sierra Nevada Kellerweis

Sierra Nevada Kellerweis [baron rating 4/5] - 4.8% cloudy gold ale,yeasty banana cake smell,frothy bright fruit taste,dry spicy clove finish Baron Orm

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

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Watch us open the bottle!



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

Buy Sierra Nevada ales here

Summer Wine Tiberius

Summer Wine Tiberius [baron rating 4/5] - 4.5% pale gold ale,sweet malt aroma,slight sweet & bitter grapefruit taste,dry hoppy bitter finish Baron Orm

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

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Thank you to James from Summer Wine for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

St Austell Brewery

Website www.staustellbrewery.co.uk
Twitter @StAustellBrew & @Tribute_Ale

Bottled Beers

• St Austell Admiral's Ale
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

• St Austell Clouded Yellow
  [baron rating 2/5] ♫

• St Austell HSD
  [baron rating 4/5]

• St Austell Korev
  [baron rating 4/5] ♫

• St Austell Proper Black
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

• St Austell Proper Job
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

• St Austell Smugglers

• St Austell Tribute
  [baron rating 4/5] ♫

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Looking forward to 'baron rating' St Austell ales very soon!

I was very pleased this morning to see a courier pull up outside asking if The Ormskirk Baron lived here. After confirming that I was indeed the Baron he promptly handed over a box of six beers sent from those kind people at the St Austell Brewery:

St Austell Brewery

• Admiral's Ale - 5% bronze rich spicy ale

• Clouded Yellow - 4.8% wheat beer

• HSD - 5% strong Cornish ale

• Korev - 4.8% Cornish lager

• Proper Job - 5.5% India Pale Ale

• Tribute - 4.2% balanced hoppy & citrus

Look out for 'baron ratings' for these St Austell beers soon, and a big thank you to StAustellBrew for sending these through to me!

Best Mates Vicar's Daughter

Best Mates Vicar's Daughter [baron rating 1/5] - 3.7% gold ale,fruity yeasty smell, fruity tart yeasty taste,unpleasant tart bitter finish Baron Orm

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

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Audio includes a mini-rant against CAMRA and their insistence on bottle conditioned ales being the only 'real ales'.

This was from the summer 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 Best Mates ales here

Laverstoke Park Lager

Laverstoke Park Lager [baron rating 3/5] - 4.5% pale gold lager,pithy lemon aroma,balanced slightly sweet taste,dry slightly fruity finish Baron Orm

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

Buy Laverstoke Park Farm ales here

Samuel Adams Boston Lager for less than 99p a bottle in Costco

Costco now have 24-bottle packs of Sam Adams Boston Lager [baron rating 5/5] as part of the permanent beer line-up. Each box is just £22.26!

Morrisons October ale & beer offers (4th October - 7th November 2010)

It's October'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:

• Batemans XXXB [baron rating 4/5]
  £1.25 instead of £1.69

• JW Lees Coronation Ale
  £1.25 guest ale

• Morland Old Speckled Hen [baron rating 4/5]
  4-bottle pack: £5.19 instead of £6.19

• Scottish & Newcastle Newcastle Brown Ale [baron rating 3/5]
  £1.50 instead of £1.67

Batemans XXXB is the 'baron bargain' of the month, this tasty 4.8% classic bitter is a lovely drink and rarely on offer, get some stocked up!

Young's Brewery

Website www.youngsbeers.co.uk
Twitter @YoungsBeers

Bottled Beers

• Young's Bitter
  [baron rating 4/5]

• Young's Champion Live

• Young's Double Chocolate Stout
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

• Young's Kew Gold
  [baron rating 3/5]

• Young's Light Ale
  [baron rating coming soon]

• Young's London Gold
  [baron rating 3/5] ♫

• Young's Ram Rod

• Young's Special London Ale
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

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Young's London Gold

Young's London Gold [baron rating 3/5] - 4.8% golden ale,slight yeasty orchard smell,delicate balanced light bitter taste,long bitter finish Baron Orm

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

Hardknott Aether Blaec 2009

Hardknott Aether Blaec 2009 [baron rating 4/5] - 8% black stout, boozy sweet smell,smooth rich roasted sweet whisky taste,smoky sweet finish Baron Orm

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

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

Buy Hardknott ales here

Dark Star Brewing Company

Website www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk
Twitter @Darkstarbrewco

Bottled Beers

• Dark Star Espresso
  [baron rating 4/5] ♫

• Dark Star Imperial Stout 2007
  [baron rating coming soon]

• Dark Star Imperial Stout 2008
  [baron rating coming soon]

• Dark Star Imperial Stout 2009
  [baron rating 5/5] ♫

• Dark Star Imperial Stout 2010
  [baron rating coming soon]

• Dark Star Porter 2010
  [baron rating coming soon]

• Dark Star Sunburst
  [baron rating 4/5] ♫

Other Information

• Baron on Tour: Dark Star
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The Dark Star Brewing Company was born in 1994 in the cellar of The Evening Star Pub, in Brighton. With a brew plant only marginally bigger than an enthusiastic home-brew kit the characteristic style of hoppy beers was developed and tried out on the willing guinea pigs at the bar.

Within a few hard working years, in 2001 the brewery relocated to a new purpose-built, 15 brewers barrel brewery in Ansty, near Haywards Heath, then in January 2010 we moved to our new home in Partridge Green, West Sussex, where we plan on staying for a while.

Williams Bros Ebulum

Williams Bros Ebulum [baron rating 4/5] - 6.5% black ale,fruity roasted smell,full smooth sweet berry fruit taste,fruity bittersweet finish Baron Orm

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

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Thank you to Williams Bros. for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!

Buy Williams Bros. ales here

Dark Star bowling anyone?

I just had to post this picture after I managed to get hold of some of the rather elusive & delicious Dark Star Imperial Stout [baron rating 5/5]:

Now all I need is a Dark Star bowling ball...

St. Sylvestre 3 Monts

St. Sylvestre 3 Monts [baron rating 2/5] - 8.5% pale gold ale,candied sweets smell,fizzy cloying sweet almond boozy taste,dry sweet finish Baron Orm

This beer was 'baron rated' whilst on my summer holiday down in the Ardeche region of Southern France. We were fortunate enough to be invited to stay at a friend's holiday home - it's an amazing house and the location is perfect, oh and the pool is to die for!

Take a look round the house: Le Mas du Gros Cailloux

Note: If you book the house please make sure you say the baron made me do it!

Summer Wine Treason

Summer Wine Treason [baron rating 4/5] - 5% dark ruby stout,sweet roasted smell,sweet frothy roasted chestnuts taste,roasted bitter finish Baron Orm

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

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Thank you to James from Summer Wine for sending this through for a 'baron rating'!