Here are the beer cellar reviews, listed according to their scores. Those graded with identical scores are listed together, without any significance to their internal order.
| Top Scoring | Alphabetical (by beer) | Alphabetical (by brewery) |
| Beer | Brewery | ABV (%) | Comments | Score:/10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Milk Stout | South African Breweries, SABMill | 6.00 | Black body, creamy head. Surprising refreshing. | 7.5 |
| Sweet Chariot | Marston | 4.80 | Spicy, strong smell on nose - but not palette, citrus fruit and hops. | 7.5 |
| Old Monty Dry Cider | Montgomery Cidermakers | 6.00 | Golden haze, sour Welsh cider. A little rough, ends well with tight dryness | 7.5 |
| Wilkins Dry | Wilkins | 6.00 | Dry, warm, and soft. Good apple acidity. Fluid taste. | 7.5 |
| Super Bock - Lemon | Unicer | 4.00 | Overiding lemon syrup with strains of Desperados, but with additional sweetness. Similar tannins of whisky beer. | 7.5 |
| Dorothy Goodbodys Christmas Ale | Wye Valley Brewery | 6.00 | Golden ruby, full malts, delicate spice aroma. Roast character at side. Could almost be a porter. | 7.5 |
| Discovery | Fullers | 4.20 | Lager malts for lightness with slight biscuit flavours and a fruity zest. Rarely used Saaz hops. Intended for summer. | 7.5 |
| Santas Little Helper | Caledonian | 3.70 | This is copper red in colour with a large foam head and already looks the Christmas part. Malt aroma, with sweet caramel taste, but ending in bitterness. Slight tangs of fruit and leaf. | 7.5 |
| Pickled Santa | Hopback | 6.00 | Fizzy and spicy, with good over notes. Has feel of Christmas beer, and strong enough to make you fall asleep in front of the fire | 7.5 |
| Burton Bitter | Marston | 3.80 | Golden red in colour, but a light beer, with slight hoppy tang, and biscuit taste as it washes past. | 7.5 |
| Oatmeal Stout | Buntingford | 4.40 | Solid chocolate mild, with bitterness bite on back of palete. Solid taste. Slight coffee tang to it. | 7.5 |
| Anchor Porter | Anchor | 5.60 | Strong equivalent of the other anchor brews | 7.5 |
| Golden Valley | Breconshire Brewery | 4.20 | Single variety soft hop. Gentle and direct bitterness with subtle tastes. Session. | 7.5 |
| Malzbier | (sports bar one) | 0.00 | More grainy and less refined than other. Very slightly bitter. Hints of horlicks. Slighter wetter and less rich. | 7.5 |
| Früh Kölsch | Früh | 4.80 | Pils like Sion Kölsch, but with hoppy aftertaste that grows in mouth. | 7.5 |
| Kasteel Rouge | Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck | 8.00 | Red due to cherry, not ruby. Morello cherry aroma, with slight bitterness in a cherry pie filling. Long lingering aftertaste. Vibrant mouthfeel. Too much taste for many. | 7.5 |
| La Trappe Dubbel | De Koningshoeven Brewery | 7.00 | Dark ruby red, light foamy head, slightly yeast aroma and continuing flavour. Yeast can be piercing in places. | 7.5 |
| 4x4 | Wye Valley Brewery | 4.40 | Light golden ale, with sparkling fizz. Straight and fresh taste. Good aroma. No a lot of aftertaste. Better than expected for a branded ale. | 7.5 |
| Waterloo Double | Du Bocq | 8.50 | Brown and ruby colour, but straight brown taste. Slight fruit materializes on the back of the palet after a few seconds. | 7.5 |
| Bersalis | Brasserie Oud Beersel | 9.50 | Recently created beer. Light blond, extra bitterness aftertaste with sweet aroma. With improvement could be a Leffe. | 7.5 |
| Stone Caligornia Double IPA | Stone Brewery | 7.00 | Surprising deep golden ale. Hoppy (natch!) with malt backing. | 7.5 |
| King Summer Ale | King | 4.00 | Light golden colour, refreshing bitterness. Slightly watery mouthfeel and aftertaste. Possibly too fizzy. Unassertive taste. | 7.5 |
| Gravediggers mild | Church End | 3.80 | Mild taste, with burnt nose, and resonating soft toffee taste. A light porter. Dry on aftertaste. | 7.5 |
| Premier Bitter | Moorhouse | 3.70 | Amber session beer. Standard pint, but good. | 7.5 |
| Blackeney Red SV Perry | Hacks | 6.20 | Smooth, sweet, rounded, no sticky aftertaste. | 7.5 |
| Oldfield SV Perry | Oliver's Orchards | 6.00 | Sharper and sweeter than the Hecks Blakeney. Still good. | 7.5 |
| Worth the Wait | Beeston | 4.20 | Golden ale, with slightly sparkling. Dry bitterness, with extra co2 on aftertaste. | 7.5 |
| Orkney Blast | Highland | 6.00 | Golden fullsome mouthfeel to remind you it's light , but strong biscuit malt a/t ultimately sits heavier on pallet. Woody aroma. | 7.5 |
| Lord Lee's | North Yorkshire | 4.70 | Bright and fizzy beer, that's red-brown in colour and twin pairings of malt and sugar. Malt bitter after-taste. | 7.5 |
| Gunners Daughter | Old Cannon | 5.50 | Fizzy, yet rich, strong ale that's smooth throughout - from taste, to fullsome mouthfeel, to after-taste. Undetermined hop taste with fruity hops. | 7.5 |
| Sweetheart Stout | Tennent Caledonian Breweries | 2.00 | Pours with consistency of cola, but less fizz. Aroma is spicy and sweet-between cinnamon and aniseed, which follows in the tastes. Thin, un-stout like. Holds well, easy drinker. | 7.5 |
| Anastasias Exile Stout | Ascot Ales | 5.00 | Dark rich bottle ale. Visually flat, but discovers smooth bed of fizz when drunk. Rich and aromatic taste with dark caramel in taste. | 7.5 |
| Alligator Ale | Ascot Ales | 4.60 | US style single hop beer using cascade hops with refreshing rounded taste and citrus-come-meadow aroma. Light, but slightly bitter, taste with pleasant if shallow a/t. Session. Loses fizz quickly. | 7.5 |
| Equinox | Brasserie De La Senne | 8.00 | Deep ruby to black in colour. Opens with fruity hops and strong bitterness, followed by a good continuing bitterness in the mouthfeel which lingers well into the aftertaste | 7.5 |
| Taras Boulba | Brasserie De La Senne | 4.50 | Slightly cloudy, not as bitter on initial taste as thought as it's balanced with quite a high hop content. But this beds down on tongue, and holds in a/t, to reveal solid bitterness. | 7.5 |
| Dark Horse | ØRBÆK | 5.00 | Dark ruby with good head. Taste of bitter roasted malts, with only a subtle malt in aroma. Good beer to change gear from pale ales to dark ales | 7.5 |
| Jomfruhumle | Søgaards Bryghus | 4.80 | Subtle grain aroma, and coloured a deep red. Strains of mild ESB and/or similarity to Doom Bar. | 7.5 |
| ÆRØ Hertug Hans - No 5 Valnod | Rise Bryggeri | 7.00 | Good transition beer, that red fruit colour and maple aroma and flavour in a beer. Good with ribs or proper burger and chips with American bbq sauces or other sweet smoky sauces with a tomato base. Elements of AoverT or Tay Berry. | 7.5 |
| ÆRØ Dark Ale | Rise Bryggeri | 6.00 | Deep brown colour with a mild grain smell. Tastes of rich solid roasted grain, with a hint of caramel. Would hold it's own against most UK brown ales. The organic version has elements of cognac. | 7.5 |
| Dark Horse | ØRBÆK | 5.00 | Dark ruby with good head. Subtle malt on nose, but tasting of bitter roasted malts. Good beer to change gear from pale ales to dark ales | 7.5 |
| Mythique | 0.00 | Pure yellow golden, good foam head, citrus aroma, smooth mouthfeel and slightly tingle. | 7.5 | |
| Zagorka | Zagorka (Heineken) | 5.00 | Bulgarian lager. Good pils, due to strength and not being like Heineken! | 7.5 |
| Ezel Bruin | Ezel | 8.50 | Sweet, slightly sugar with some caramel on aftertaste. Mild hop notes. Better taste than smell. Longer a/t if left, but muggy | 7.5 |
| Firefly Bitter | Firefly | 0.00 | Light, slight fizz, no head, dark golden colour with lacings. | 7.5 |
| Wild Oat Stout | Glencoe Brewery | 0.00 | Perfectly drinkable oatmeal, but is either 'a cliche' or 'a template' of this style | 7.5 |
| Black Jack Porter | Cliff Quay | 4.50 | Named for the anisseed sweet, much more pronounced in aroma, less in taste. If only it could have followed through. | 7.5 |
| Smocked Bock | Meantime | 0.00 | Smooth, slightly fizzy, smokey aroma and taste, but subdued by soft malt mouth feel | 7.5 |
| Hole Hearted | Oakleaf | 4.70 | Golden yellow over-foamy (but my pint was lively, so might not be true) No taste problem, smooth bitter coating,good hop on nose, but less so on taste, going to dry bitterness instead. | 7.5 |
| Organic Blonde | Hepworth | 5.00 | Clean golden colour and strong floral aroma. Similar to Asahi. Touch fizzy on start, settles to easy malt base. Lack of real a/t (but unlike Asahi, still strong on palete) | 7.5 |
| Redhook ESB | Redhook | 5.80 | Like full sail, with extra bitterness. ESB might be modeled after UK-style ESB, but it isn't. | 7.5 |
| Golden Export | Gordon Biersch | 5.00 | Large foam head, very light golden, surprising dry bitter, heading drier about 20 seconds into a/t | 7.5 |
| Schwarzbier | Gordon Biersch | 4.29 | Good darker ale with roasted coffe-like finish and soft, slightly sweet and dry, malty over tones. But no points of difference from the 100 similar wannabe's in the market. | 7.5 |
| North Star Red | 21st Amendment | 6.50 | Strong ruby fruit, dark red in colour, over a malt with tang and holding bitterness on tongue. | 7.5 |
| Culloden | Cairngorm | 4.20 | Ruby red with port and fruit notes. Dry finish, and occasional other fruits. | 7.5 |
| Okells Alt | Okells Brewery | 5.00 | Dark copper, cream head, and smooth. Not at 'alt' in the traditional sense. | 7.5 |
| Strandgaper | Schelde Brouwrik | 6.20 | Musky golden with tart stringent notes, with dry banana a/t, giving it more a wheat beer feel than blond of its description | 7.5 |
| Harvest Pale | Castle Rock | 3.80 | Supreme Champion at the 2010 GBBF. Good easy-drinking blonde beer with mild bite in a/t. Decent drink, but might as well be called 'Discovery' with all the similaraties it has with Fullers beer. | 7.5 |
| Postmistress | Sandstone | 4.40 | Dark red in colour and smokey a/t. Worth trying. | 7.5 |
| 't Gaverhopke | 't Gaverhopke | 0.00 | Musty barley wine. MIght have been off. | 7.5 |
| Union Amber Ale | Meantime | 4.90 | Amber ale is not amber! It's a light reddish brown, Vienna-style lager. Dry finish but wet a/t with too much fizz to make it a quaffer. Leads to a sipping drink, which leads to a lesser taste than you want with red and Vienna's. | 7.5 |
| Perla | Chmielowa | 6.00 | Big creamy malt. Fulsome pils. Needs foods to balance. | 7.5 |
| Kasztelan | Carlsberg Polska | 6.80 | Strong pils, but clean and crisp, with only slight cream of other Polish beers. Still has a fulnes sin throat. Lots of fizz tingle on tongue, slightly sour aftertaste. | 7.5 |
| Texels Bock | Texels (Lowlander) | 7.00 | Light body with rich tastes. caramell touch with soft tongue finish. Like M+S Belgium Lager, but with darker overtones | 7.5 |
| Magma | Troubador | 9.00 | Tripe IPA. Dry tingle with strong sour notes that tingle afterwards. Husky orange colour, like the bottle, with zesty on tongue. | 7.5 |
| Monty's Double | Burnards Cider | 6.00 | Dry cider. Slightly cloudy orangey colour, mild fizz only. Tart enough to be enjoyable without overpowering, with 1/2 the mouthfeel of a pear drop (but no pear taste.) | 7.5 |
| Monty's Double | Burnards Cider | 6.00 | Dry cider. Slightly cloudy orangey colour, mild fizz only. Tart enough to be enjoyable without overpowering, with 1/2 the mouthfeel of a pear drop (but no pear taste.) | 7.5 |
| Port Ellen | Hartlands | 6.80 | Whisky cask, dark golden, sharp tartness, especially in aftertaste. Gulp, not sim, to get extra sharp hit. | 7.5 |
| IPA is Dead - Challenger | Brewdog | 6.70 | Hop-based, light ale, following with a light cream. A real contrast to the other two. I think I was offered this to offset the cost of the others, actually! It is too hoppy for me to session this, but a good, but not remarkable beer. | 7.5 |
| Berne | Brewers Union | 5.00 | Unfiltered light golden/amber ale. Slightly dry, with slight rum notes and cream. | 7.5 |
| EInstock Porter | EInstock | 6.00 | Fruit cake on the nose, coffee on the tongue, but not as roasted as name suggested. It's either the Icelandic water, or biscuit and chocolate malts that offset them. | 7.5 |
| Hop head | Porterhouse | 4.80 | Hoppy (obviously!) with velvet malt and bitter bite on back | 7.5 |
| Sunburnt Irish Red | Eight Degress Brewing | 5.00 | "Vimto beer". fruity berry, frothy cream on start. Will satiate palate quickly, like tayberry. | 7.5 |
| Nelson Sauvin | Marstons | 4.00 | NZ hop. Clear biscuit golden, no head or co2. Refreshingly clean, slight cloy omn palate. Slight hold on a/t. Sip to get strong hop. Gulp for refreshment. Satiates by pint end. Aroma of gooseberry/grapefruit/citrus | 7.5 |
| Milestone | Loxley | 4.20 | Fairly standard ale, low bitterness, moderate cream.. but an extra surprise if you gulp, as it tastes like cheese and onion crisps. | 7.5 |
| Budding | Stroud | 4.50 | A straw coloured pale ale - a standard that ticks all the boxes with sweet malt and floral. | 7.5 |
| Red hunter | Hammerpot | 4.30 | Flowing red ale with roasted malt, and long finish. Prefix with Red Barn (e.g.) to get an extra coffee hit | 7.5 |
| Excelsoir | Ossett | 5.20 | A dependable strong pale ale, from a dependable brewery. | 7.5 |
| Horsesugar | Wood Street | 3.90 | A light malty taste, without an abundance of hop, by slightly tart. Something to have in halves. | 7.5 |
| Kelpie | William Bros Brewing Company | 4.40 | Rich chocolate beer with touch of salt. Claims to be seaweed - could be, but just salt and 'interesting' tastes to my buds. | 7.5 |
| Hoggleys | Solstice Stout | 5.00 | Expectant black stout using malt and wheat. The latter takes the edge of what should be brilliant, since nothing exists in a pure enough form to shine through. Did win ''best local drink'' for Northamptonshire, which might appeal to those that share the water table, but misses the mark for those that don't. Still good. | 7.5 |
| Stout - 08|01 - Export Strength | Brew by Numbers | 6.60 | The stout's also good, with more of an espresso tang that I was expecting. | 7.5 |
| American Bitter Red | 21st Amendment | 4.40 | Amber color and floral nose with good malt backbone. Overdone on the bitterness, given the malt and ruby elements. Dry-hopped with cascade. | 7.5 |
| Black Ale | Stone Brewing Co. | 5.00 | Sillky black, heading to Budvar black, with many added hops so feels like American IPA | 7.5 |
| Toasted Oak IPA | Innis & Gunn | 5.60 | Light biscuit malt, overpowered by the usual range of floral/earth/citrus. Good a/t. Good beer, but given their others, it's a let down. | 7.5 |
| Honey Fayre | Conwy | 4.50 | Smooth beer, despite lots of bitter sediment at bottom. Standard ale, drinkable, with touch of the Welsh version of Double Dragon | 7.5 |
| Op & Top | De Molen | 4.50 | Dutch hoppy beer. Trying to be too clever, and turns out like every other hoppy 'artisan' beer | 7.5 |
| Bier Ambree | Page 24 | 6.90 | A solid amber beer, with all expected accoutrements. Better on tap, though. | 7.5 |
| Jenlain Ambree | Brasserie Duyck | 7.50 | Very odd amber beer, in a can. An amber can. Strong and nutty flavours, and quite palatable. | 7.5 |
| Den 12 | Brouwerij 't Gaverhopke | 12.00 | Dark brown with beige foam. Solid fruit tastes, but nothing lingers. Lost opportunity, but drinkable for 3-4 glasses. | 7.5 |
| Farmhouse Cider | Cornish Orchard | 4.80 | Fruit aromas and apple flavour. Mellow, and easy entry level. | 7.5 |
| Perry | Thatcher's | 6.00 | A decent, if uncomplex, perry. Have everything you expect, not much more, but well executed | 7.5 |
| Winter Woolly | Cotswold Lion Brewery | 6.70 | Black w/slight cola foam. Nutty. Reasonably smooth. | 7.5 |
| Rye o Rye | Alchemy | 5.60 | Biscuit golden dark amber. Soft bitter w/slight attack on a/t. Large head which dissipates after 5 minutse and/or 3rd moutful. | 7.5 |
| C K Jasne | C K Brower | 0.00 | Like Urqell. Good and bright pils. Slight spice, but slightly tart | 7.5 |
| Weizen | C K Brower | 0.00 | W/o the usual banana overload, but as if a lemon had been dropped in | 7.5 |
| Dunkel | C K Brower | 0.00 | Light malt, light fizz, doesn't stain palate. Inoffensive version of something that should have been better | 7.5 |
| Myrha Pale Ale | Goutte d'Or | 5.00 | Spiked bitter palate. Cloudy golden colour. Hopped fizz. No head | 7.5 |
| Shed Head | Backyard Brewery | 4.60 | US-style IPA dry hopped with Cascade and Citra, but very much a Pale Ale. Fulfills on its promises | 7.5 |
| Yore | Lyme Bay Winery | 4.00 | Like a popularist cider: bright, sparkling, fun, but with honey through line | 7.5 |
| Bad Apple | Carlsberg | 5.10 | 4-blend cider with a slight tang in main body, and sherbet at end. Touch of inspiration from US ciders. | 7.5 |
| Jack Branch Ease Up IPA | Adnams | 4.60 | American style IPA. Solid, and manages to be an introduction to IPAs due to less obvious hop punch | 7.5 |
| Amber | Abolition Brewery | 5.20 | American-style Amber with sweetness on palate and light roast and copper on top. | 7.5 |
| Milk Stout | Abolition Brewery | 6.40 | Follows the standards of the genre, without managing to stand out. | 7.5 |
| Old Wallop | Davy's | 4.80 | Malty, light co2, but rich beer similar to Directors or Speckled Hen | 7.5 |