Ascot Ales - Alligator Ale 4.6%

Taste: Whoa! Smells good, but the first taste is that of swallowing salty water with a dose of sand. Let's see how this pans out... It's hoppy, bitter. Best suited to sitting on a picnic table in a pub garden.

Appearance: Orangeade. The sleazy alligator on the bottle sealed the deal when choosing this one.

Would You Buy 2? It has a warming aftertaste. In turn, I am warming to the ale. I'd buy two.

Would You Buy 4? It's grown on me in a matter of minutes. I reminds me of butter for some reason. This is pretty good! Four please!

Rating (Out of 7): 5***** what a confusing beer. It's smacked me upside the head.

Location:Clapham

Ascot Ales - Anastasia's Exile Stout 5%

Taste: Pretty light tasting. Toasted pine kernels / needles. This I growing on me. I think this is a quaffing stout. Not so much a sipper.

Appearance: Pleasingly dark. The bottle wooed me.

Would you buy 2? I'd buy this on draft in a pub.

Would you buy 4? Not sure yet.

Rating (out of 7): 4**** a pleasingly nice stout.

Location:Clapham, London