Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt 2012...

I will join in. Had the week off but I’ll pick all these up next week, got a 10 quid voucher and 10% staff discount means 9 beers for 80p. Result! Doubt I could hack them all in one night though...

I appear to have a hangover. Now what was I doing last night? Oh crap now I remember. Those 11 empty bottles in the kitchen may have something to do with it.

Omly just got home so missed it when this thread was posted. However have to say Ian that made for very amusing reading.

Fin

To be honest I really wish I hadn’t done it as it ruined the rest of the weekend

Mind you I still managed to meet one of the brewers from Caveman in Swalescombe and try their Citra, meet AndrewC in Canterbury for the Foundry’s new Canterbury Lager and then drink pints of Girardin Kriekenlambic and Jonge Lambik at The Bottle Shop, Canterbury where they have some 10 litre lambic boxes from the brewery. Made my weekend.

Here are my overall ratings from the bottles picked up at Sainsburys Ashford.

JW Lees Manchester Star 3.7
Blue Monkey 99 Red Baboons 3.7
Castle Rock Screech Owl 3.6
Sambrooks Pumphouse Pale Ale 3.5
Wold Top Scarborough IPA 3.4
Cotleigh Snowy 3.4
Wadworth Horizon 3.2
TSA Doppio 3.2
Wolf Poppy 3.2
Wye Valley Dorothy Goodbody’s Brown 3.2
Batemans Mocha 3.2
1Cairngorm White Lady 3.0
Williams Prodigal Sun 2.9
Elgoods Indian Summer 2.8
Ridgeway Ivanhoe 2.7
Bad Elf 2,6
Brains Willy Nilly 2.5
Nethergate Lemon Head 2.4

Not tried Beartown Wojtek or Harviestoun Wild Hop Gold

Shame there’s so few new beers in the list.

Thoughts so far;

Wadworth Horizon 2.4- bathwater. Sink had a slurp.
Cairngorm White Lady 2.8- Unbavarian. Worst Cairngorm I’ve had.
Harviestoun Wild Hop 3.6- Lychee,stewed tea,nettles. Hums of hop.
Williams Prodigal 3.4- Jammy Dodgers.
TSA Espresso 2.6- saccharined Irish coffee/Polish alcopop.

Still recovering from the shock and excitement of picking up 13 new beers in Nuneaton. In a supermarket. In any UK supermarket come to think of it. Except Booth’s.

Thankyou, Sainsbury’s.

Thankyou.

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
i wonder if we will see them in scotland this year

Seen them all in Sainsbury’s, Irvine. No 3 for £4, though. Was told that was English stores only, we are subject to SNP recommendations on minimum pricing for alcohol! That’s right, those being queried by the EU right now!

Originally posted by cgarvieuk
i wonder if we will see them in scotland this year

Seen them all in Sainsbury’s, Irvine. No 3 for £4, though. Was told that was English stores only, we are subject to SNP recommendations on minimum pricing for alcohol! That’s right, those being queried by the EU right now!

I tried the Harviestoun as it mentioned the magic words "Simcoe" and "Citra" on the label... well, they must have used about a cone of each as it wasn’t particularly interesting - nowt wrong with it, actually it was quite a decent beer, but I was (naively) hoping for a little more.

None of the others interested me enough to buy them.