Fuller's - Golden Pride 8.5%

Taste: Oh boy! Strong! This could be mother's ruin. Smells like pure malt. Tastes alcoholic but pleasant and warming. But I was warm already....

Appearance: surprisingly opaque. Chestnut brown.

Would you buy 2? Hmm. For a friend to make them happy. Or to get an enemy drunk.

Would you buy 4? I can't see it for myself. For four others?

Rating (out of 7): 4**** not classic. There's an air of homebrew about this one, but it's strong enough to shake a four out of me.

Location:Buckingham Palace Rd,London,United Kingdom

Bath Ales - Golden Hare 4.4%

Taste: Shockingly delicious! It's light, but it has flavour up the wazoo! It's dry, with a hint of deep fried sugar cane. Lovely.

Appearance: initially worried by the light appearance of this beer. But it was a deception. Nice tan label.

Would you buy 2? I wish I could.

Would you buy 4? Take me to your (nearest ale) dealer!

Rating (out of 7): 6****** a high accolade. Could Bath Ales be the UK's most consistently delicious brewer?

Location:The Chase,Lambeth,United Kingdom

Bath Ales - Barnstormer 4.5%

Taste: Smells like high expectations... Lots of flavours! They keep coming. Chocolate? Dandelion and burdock? Tastes interesting... Much better than my dinner.

Appearance: Rubies in mud

Would you buy 2? Yes I would.

Would you buy 4? I would in cold climes. I fear the summer months may not be this ale's friend.

Rating (out of 7): 5***** really tasty!

Location:Buckingham Palace Rd,London,United Kingdom

Shepherd Neame - Tapping the Admiral 4.0%

Taste: although this is a war based ale, it's an interesting story involving drinking brandy from a corpse infested source, so we can be lenient. Smells boozy, tastes subtle. It's pretty retesting though. I want to say more. But I can't. Stings the throat.

Appearance: runny honey

Would you buy 2? I was given a crate...

Would you buy 4? It would be great on the beach. Maybe then.

Rating (out of 7): 4**** not extraordinary. But sweet and tasty enough.

Location:The Chase,Lambeth,United Kingdom

Cottage Brewing Company - Evening Star

Taste: Dark, velvet, a lunar eclipse.

Appearance: Old motor oil.

Would you buy 2? You bet your life!

Would you buy 4? Probably, it's dark though, my insides are anxious!

Rating (out of 7): 4, a delicious option on a winter's night.

Location:Warren Close,Fleet,United Kingdom

Shepherd Neame - Master Brew 4%

Taste: this hoppy taste doesn't go anywhere spectacular, but that's okay; I'm sat in the sun and this ale is like tanning lotion for my taste buds!

Appearance: bubbly orange

Would you buy 2? Yes, it's nice and light.

Would you buy 4? If there were no other choices... Under duress

Rating (out of 7): 4**** tasty, not ground breaking

Location:Cedar drive, Wimborne, Dorset

Green's - Premium Golden Ale 4.8%

Taste: Woah! Delightful! If a piece of sessile oak was drinkable and delicious, it would be like this. Bit of a fizz, like a bumble bee passing through a pleasurable beer garden!

Appearance: Caramel from space. A distant wooden planet?

Would you buy 2? No doubt.

Would you buy 4? Whilst on a pancake binge...

Rating (out of 7): * * * * * (a great 5)

Bowman's - Nuts 5%

Taste: tastes like a liquid bonfire night. Smokey leather. Compliments the pickled eggs perfectly by neutralising the acids.

Appearance: creosote / kate's hair

Would you buy 2? Too late. I've bought 4.

Would you buy 4? Maybe a bit thick and molassesy.

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

Location:Bowling Alley,,United Kingdom

Brakspear - Bitter 3.8%

Taste: Pleasant biscotti yeast. Light. Quite tasty.

Appearance: teddy bear's eyes.

Would you buy 2? Okay.

Would you buy 4? I can't imagine why not.

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

Location:Hook,United Kingdom

Batemans - Dark Lord 5%

Taste: tangy and malty. It's great! Goes great with enchiladas. This is wild, gloopy stuff!

Appearance: jet black! And that fantasy artwork is really doing things for me...

Would you buy 2? Yo yo yo!

Would you buy 4? Rad! Of course

Rating (out of 7): 5***** a power ale!

Location:Ravelin Close,Fleet,United Kingdom

Titanic - Iceberg 4.1%

Taste: It's really metallic. Like sucking nails. Irony. Horse shoe esque.

Appearance: yeller'.

Would you buy 2? For an anaemic friend.

Would you buy 4? No. Someone else might.

Rating (out of 7): 4**** I enjoyed it.

Location:Ravelin Close,Fleet,United Kingdom

Wayland Smith - White Horse 4.4%

Taste: chalky. But that might be the propaganda on the blurb. Secretive... It's nice though. Like a big biscuit.

Appearance: stolen honey.

Would you buy 2? I would! It's very drinkable.

Would you buy 4? Maybe not enough here to keep me gripped.

Rating (out of 7): 4**** better than average.

Location:Ravelin Close,Fleet,United Kingdom

Springhead - The Leveller 4.8%

Taste: like toffee flavoured batteries. Smooth as a windscreen!

Appearance: pub table brown with an auburn bottom.

Would you buy 2? Hmmm yes!

Would you buy 4? Ermmm no. Not unless I was having a life changing dilemma.

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

Location:Fleet,United Kingdom

Castle Rock - Harvest Pale 4.3%

Taste: really takes the edges off. Citrus and barley! Nice!

Appearance: a summer's eve

Would you buy 2? Yeah. Needed it today.

Would you buy 4? why not? It's great.

Rating (out of 7): 5***** perfectly nice and good.

Location:Fleet,United Kingdom

York Brewery - Yorkshire Terrier 3.8%

Taste: a shock! It's nice... Well, it has dog based tap art after all. Hoppy, tangy. Not bad at all. Is that caramel I taste.

Appearance: classic brown

Would you buy 2? Yup.

Would you buy 4? If there was others to taste, then no. Otherwise, party on!

Rating (out of 7): 5***** another goodun!

Location:London,United Kingdom