Brains - Le Peloton 4%

Taste: Delicious. Hops. Lemon. Bread and butter pudding. It's all there! Brains are getting interesting!

Appearance: Cycling based. Lemon yellow ale.

Would you buy 2? Yes please!

Would you buy 4? Of course!

Rating (out of 7): 6******

Brains - Coronel Williams 6%

Taste: primary school cookery smell. Taste of sharp blood, iron. So bloody. A vampires second favourite ale. Licking girders. Industrial. Iron.

Appearance: Tizer window.

Would you buy 2? Mmehhhhhh you could couldn't you???

Would you buy 4? Prfffffff a time and place.

Rating (out of 7): 4**** a good four.

Brecon Brewing - Gold Beacons 4.2%

Taste: Like dragging your tongue through a forest. This ia a harsh wildereness ale. There's a funny aftertaste, which turns out to be... grapefruit.

Appearance: Golden syrup

Would you buy 2: Perhaps

Would you buy 4? Perhaps not

Rating (out of 7): 4 * * * *

Bluestone (National Park Resort) - No.1 (3.6%)

Taste: Slimey, Mouldy, Fruity, Smooth and Subtle.

Appearance: Grim and stormy.

Would you buy 2? Certainly possibly

Would you buy 4? Definitely maybe

Rating (out of 7): 4 ****

Gower Brewery - Sampson's Jack 4.2%

Taste: Smooth. Pretty refreshing start to the evening. Ice cold. Musty, like old cigar boxes.

Appearance: Red Bush Tea.

Would you buy 2? We have.

Would you buy 4? Perhaps. But not today.

Rating (out of 7): 4****

Location:Market Rd,Cardiff,United Kingdom

Cottage Brewery - Sopwith Camel 4.8%

Taste: Mellow. Buttery like some kind of biscuit or shortbread. Wheat and honey. It's comes packaged with a fruity aroma. French Bread. French Bread!

Appearance: Mead. Oh yeah yeah yeah Golden syrup.

Would you buy 2? I wish I had. I might still.

Would you buy 4? I'm envious of four. Oh to be the fifth.

Rating (out of 7): 5***** great stuff!!!

Location:Cathedral Rd,Cardiff,United Kingdom

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Breconshire Brewery - 6 (4.4%)

Taste: smells like pickling vinegar. A bit sharp.... Is it off??? Wet cold slate. A touch bland for a Sunday. Pretty smooth though, it'll sort out my heartburn.

Appearance: pleasing. A historic brown. The best thing about the ale, some say.

Would you buy 2? No. Hahaha

Would you buy 4? By mistake. An accident i'd regret.

Rating (out of 7): 3*** better than that one yesterday.

Location:Severn Grove,Cardiff,United Kingdom

Celt - Bleddyn 1075 5.6%

Taste: Celery monoxide. Market garden in London. It's getting hard to breathe. Why is the smell so overpowering. Celeriac stench.

Appearance: Surprisingly orange.

Would you buy 2? Why? You tell us!

Would you buy 4? Never. We have to be honest. Why would you. Tell me!?

Rating (out of 7): 3 unusual but not in the best way. Not that enjoyable.

Location:Warwick St,Cardiff,United Kingdom

Pen-Lon Cottage Brewery - Ramnesia 5.6%

Taste: Double first sip. I'm distracted. Tastes a little soapy. Alkaline. PH8. (after some discussion) a pear drop linger.

Appearance: slightly cloudy or is that just the glass?

Would you buy 2? I would. That's really nice actually,

Would you buy 4? Ummm. I wouldn't not buy 4.

Rating (out of 7): 5***** I'm on it. A sheep. But of west Wales.

Location:Wentloog Ave,,United Kingdom

Conwy Brewery - Nadolig Hopus 4.3%

Taste: Perfumed and a little fruity. What's this got to do with Christmas? Tastes like refreshing watery exhaust fumes from a traction engine with a soapy flower and cucumber perched on top. Now that sounds like Christmas!

Appearance: Sulphurous christmas translucent yellow. A little disconcerting.

Would you buy 2? To oval up a little, why not?

Would you buy 4? I'm already looking to the ale shelf for an alternative... Or am I?

Rating (out of 7): * * * * I'm decalibrated and I know it, but my internal ale compass says 4 stars.