In summary, not as great as last year. A lot of middle of the road ales. But nothing that stood out.

No Nethergate this year. Not that that matters. But, just not blown away this year.

28 ales in. 6pm. Good going. The halves strategy is going well.

Next up ( don’t you hate that rubbish English) is:

Brewsters Hopfield
Castle Rock Harvest Pale
Elgoods Golden Newt
Digfield Fools Nook

I think this might be our last or penultimate round ! Getting tired now!

On Alan’s advice we are all going to try Rochfort. A Begian Beer – that will – allegedly put us off ale forever.

Wish Us Luck !

Round 6 and our 4 halves are:

Oldershaw Old Boy
Potton Village Bike
Potton Shannon IPA
Thornbridge Kipling

Not been excited by the 20 so far. Are these 4 going to swing the balance?

Next up we have

Belvoir Beaver Bitter
Bartrams Butchers Hooks
Cotleigh Honey Buzzard
Hopshackle Special Bitter

5 rounds in and no typos so far !

Tweets to follow

So we have a method. 4 halves between the two of us. So a pint a time. When Alan gets here we’ll have to modify our strategy.

Our next 4 ales are as follows:

B & T Shefford Old Dark
Dark Star Over the Moon
Milestone Raspberry Wheat Berry
Oakham Black Hole Porter

Just been approached by some weirdo. Fortunately he [...]

8 beers in and nothing is really impressing us. The CAMRA anoraks alongside us think otherwise. Mind you – they are probably better informed than we are.

The next 4 ales for tasting are:

Woodfordes Norfolk Nog
Vale Best
TSA Ginger Explosion
Tring Ridgeway Bitter

The packed lunches are coming out !

The next 4 halves are:

Potbelly Aisling
Cambridge Moonshine CB1
Son Of Sid Dr Buskers Bitter Black
Milton Sparta

A much bigger turnout here than last year at this time. It took until round 4pm when all the office workers arrived for the venue to fill.

It isn’t even 1pm and the place is half full. Maybe the participants couldn’t find [...]

Here we are at Booze on the Ouse in St Neots.
We arrived at 12 noon on the button and already it is pretty busy – albeit we could be the grandchilden of every other person here.

We have a scoring system of 1 – 5 stars with the rating as follows

1 Star – Never Again
2 Stars [...]

Booze on the Ouse happens every year in St Neots. The 2009 event was attended by Alefinder on both the Friday and the Saturday.
The event runs from Thursday evening til Sunday — but the best day to go is definitely the Friday. There were over 40 ales, 10 ciders and other drinks for the drivers.
We [...]