This week sees alefinder visiting St Neots for the third year in succession to take part in the CAMRA Beer Festival that is Booze On The Ouse. This year Brad and Tony will be joined by Mark. We hope to taste and review as many of the 55 ales on offer – although in reality [...]

My local Farm Shop (yes I live out in the country) sells City of Cambridge Brewery ales. Hobson’s Choice is one of the 4 bottles I bought last time I was there. Atom Splitter, Parker’s Porter and Boathouse Bitter are the other ones I’ll try sometime soon. Hobson’s Choice headlines as a light golden ale [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]