h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's very quiet round here tonight, so I'm having a beer fest. I've selected six ales from the offie, and will be drinking them here for your pleasure.

If you have an ale of your own, please feel free to join in. If you don't, sit back and enjoy the spectacle of a slightly tipsy man typing his beer reviews.

Enjoy.

Alas I have a bit of JD but no ale, but I look forward to your aley diatribes. Enjoy!



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Thanks I feel I deserve it

First up is a bottle of one of my old favourites, Sharpe's Doom Bar from just over the Cornish border. From the tap, it's one of my favourites, not just for the fact that I can go to the bar and order a pint of Doom. After a walk, it's sensational; nice, rounded and sweet mid-flavours, fairly full, and with a glowing aftertaste. It's one thing the Cornish do well.

I can't help but feel that something has gone wrong in the bottling, though. You expect a little gas, but in my Doom it lingers right through the pint, and never quite settles. Every swig is accompanied by a tingle behind the back teeth as the gas fizzes around, and to some extent it spoils it. Even so, it's a fairly refreshing pint, but I can't help but feel that I'm drinking it out of context.

Skanky rating: 1/2

Have a JD, Roymondo, why not?

I might have a look at that page later on, but I can't read it at the moment as the text clashes with my Gooey blue screen

Ach, ye only have ye'sel ta' blame.

Sorry, I went all cod-Scot for a minute there. No idea why.

You need brunel for that.

You've pinched this idea.

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B

Sorry, B - I knew it wasn't original, but couldn't remember where I'd seen it. If my memory stretched back that far, I'd have mentioned you at the top...

Please feel free post comments here A12847584 If you look at the entry you will see what I am trying to do. Credits will of course be added

Fell free to nick any of it, Bob

E and I have just heard a line in Gordon Ramsey's latest Nightmare, which we plan to use in our next argument after hearing it screamed in a Welsh accent:

'Don't you be bloody reasonable with me!!'

My next beer was a Wychwood 'Wychcraft'. I've never had much Wychwood before beyond the old Hobgoblin, which is another of my favourites; Wychcraft is a blonde, but only really in name. In fact, it's not much lighter than your average bitter in colour, and although it's fairly fruity and hoppy I reckon blonde is pushing it a bit. I found it very easy to drink, and I was a bit disappointed when I got to the bottom of the glass. It's pretty damn good, but it's not really a blonde.

Skanky rating:

Bob: I came across that entry some time agop, though I'm not sure how, but did think 'blimey, cool!'

My passion for ale, its historical and cultural significance is probably made clear here: A20701928

Next up is Joseph Holt's 'Maplemoon', which looking at the bottle will be all spiritual and woodman-like. It's good marketing, with a nice picture of a sparkling maple tree on the front and loads of hippyesque atmospheric ramblings on the back. I bought it because it looked like one of camps in a bottle.

I have not found that one sounds a good pint where do you find this.

Hmm. I'm not sure what to make of this one. It says on the bottle 'For Those Who Know Bitter' so I'm prepared to be told I'm wrong here, but I expect a full flavour from a bitter. This one doesn't actually smell of anything at all (E is eyeing me curiously as I sniff my pint intently), and the taste is a little disappointing. The taste on top of my palate is beautiful, fresh as ale should be, but I can't taste anything else whatsoever anywhere else in my mouth. This leaves me with the odd feeling that the bottom half of my mouth is completely missing. It's also far too gassy, and I'm ready to neck it an move on.

The odd thing is that there is very little going for it other than the initial taste, which is almost perfect.

Skanky rating:

All of the beers being drunk in this session were purchased at the Totnes branch of the supermarket named after The Doors' singer

Thats a shame a little dissapointing. I wont go into my favorites as the entry makes it self evident.
Are you a cider man by any chance

I've a beer list on here somewhere in an entry, called something like 2legs beer list, its wildly inaccurate, as I've not gotten round to update it in ages, and for example last SAturday I had three new beers an Oyster stout (but not the adnams oyster stout), Three rivers Old disrepetable and... soemthign else Think you were missing an 'M', in the list; Mutford Mild (east anglian local microbrewry brew), errr, sure there are others

I have been known to enjoy the odd cider, Bob, but I move to real ale when the really good stuff - the stuff that comes in a milk carton - isn't available

What gave it away, the Devon reference?

Found it:
Acorn
Anglo Dutch, Ghoel and ghost.
Arran Blonde,
Adnams Bitter
Adnams Broadside
Adnams Explorer
Adnams Mild
Adnams Old Ale
Adanams Oyster Stout
Adnams Regatta
Adnams Special
Adnams May Day Ale
Adnams Tally Ho
Ancient Druids Merlin
Archers Best Bitter
Archers Golden Bitter
Archers Train?
Archers Headbanger
Badger Golden Champion Ale
Badger Golden Glory
Badger Fursty Ferret
Badger Tanglefoot
Ballards Wassail
Banks's Bitter
Bartrams Marld
Bartrams Trafalga
Bass, Draught Bass
Batemans Hooker
Batemans XB
Bateman XXXB
Bateman Salem Porter
Beartown, Bear Ass.
Bells, Dreamcatcher.
Bishops Finger Strong Ale
Black Sheep Best Bitter
Boddingtons Bitter
Bombardier English Pint
Brains SA
Brains, Rev. James.
Brakspears Bitter
Brakspears Special
Buffy's Best Bitter
Buffy's Mild
Buffy's Strong
Brewsters, Meek and Mild.
Burton Bridge Porter
Burton Bridge Summer Ale
Burton Bridge Festival Ale
Caffreys Premium Beer
Cains Victoria
Caledonian 80 shillings
Caledonian Ale
Caledonian Deuchars IPA
Caledonian Golden Promise
Caledonian Porter
Charles Wells
Courage Bitter
Courage Directors
Crouch Vale Brewers gold
Crouch Vale Millenium
Crouch Vale Willie Warmer
Crouchvale, Crystal.
Crouchvale, Sandas revenge.
D and T, Body Snatcher
Dent Ramsbottom
Elgoods Black Dog Mild
Elgoods Golden Newt.
Elgoods, Grayhound strong bitter.
Exmoor gold
Felinfoel Double Dragon
Forbes Best Bitter
Forbes Black Shuck
Forbes Xmas Ale
Forbes Boudecea
Forbes Excelsior Bitter
Forbes Harvest Ale
Forbes Merrie Monarch 1
Fullers London Pride
Fuller ESB
Gales XXXD
Gales HSB
Golden Sheep Finest Ale
Goliath
Golden Hill Exmoor Gold
Green Jack Canary
Green Jack Grasshopper
Green Jack Gone Fishing
Green jhack Golden Sickle
Green Jack Ripper
Green King IPA
Greene King Abbot
Harviestoun's Shehallion
Hobgoblin Extra Strong Ale
Hook Norton Best Bitter.
Hook Norton, Old Hookie
Hop Back Entire Stout
Hop Back Summer Lightening
Hop Back Winter Lightening
John Smiths Extra Smooth
John Smiths Bitter
Mackeson Stout
Marstons Burton Bitter
Marstons Pedigree
Marstons Merrie Monk
Marstons Old Empire
Mcewans Champion Ale
Mcewans Export Ale
Milton Habbit
Milton Neuro
Mauldons Bah Humbug
Mauldons Broomstick Bitter
Mauldons Bitter
Mauldons Pickwick
Mauldons Porter
Mauldons Black Adder
Moorhouse
Morland Old Speckled Hen
Murphys Irish Stout
Nethergate IPA
Nethergate Golden Gate
Newcastle Brown Ale
Oakham JHB
Orkney Dark Island
Oulton ales Oulton Bitter
Oulton Ales Beedazzled
Oulton ales Nautilus
OULTON ALES Porter
Oulton Ales Roaring Boy
Oulton ales Sunrise
Ridley's Prospect
Ridley's Rumpus
Ridley's Striker 2
Robinwood Old Fart
Ruddles Bitter
Ruddles County
Ruddles Orchard
Scotts (Scotties) brewry, Blues and Bloter 3
Spitfire Premium Ale
St Peters Bitter
St Peters Honey Porter
Shepherd Neame Bitter
Sam Smiths Bitter
Tetley Bitter
Theakstons Best Bitter
Theakstons XB
Theakstons Old Peculier
Thwaites Bitter
Thwaites Best Bitter
Thwaites Best Mild
Titanic Iceburg
Timothy Taylors
Tolly
Youngs
Wadworth
Wadworth 6X
Websters Yorkshire Bitter
Wells IPA
Wells Bombardier
Woodford's Baldric
Woodfords 'in touch' (world cup 2006 beer, think it was woodfords...).
Woodford's Wherry Bitter
Woodford's Norfolk Porter
Woodford's Nelsons Revenge
Whitbread Best Bitter
Whitbread Trophy
Worthingtons White Shield
Youngs Bitter
Young's Special
Young's Waggledance
Youngs Winter Warmer
Not assigned to brewrys/unsure

Oscar Wild Mild
Britania
Norwich bitter?
Norwich Mild
Norfolk Lager (actually a real ale, on guest at the Kingston)
Triumpth
Trophy? need to update it missing so many

2legs, I've just this moment opened a Marston's Oyster Stout. Was that the one?