Bristol Beer Factory – Milk Stout 4.6%

This is a black coloured ale with a good toasted malt and strong coffee aroma. It has gold toasted malt sweetness of black molasses and dark toasted bitterness. This is very much a  cold winter ale.

This is a molasses sweet bitter ale from the Bristol Beer Factory.

Bristol Beer Factory – Hefe German Style Wheat Beer 4.8%

This is a darker golden orange coloured beer with the characteristic sharp sweet aroma of a wheat (weiss) beer. It has the sharp sweet taste expected of a Weiss bier, making it a good summer ale.

This is a German wheat beer style from the Bristol Beer Factory

Wychwood Brewery – Hobgoblin IPA 5.3%

A Golden coloured ale with a citrus orangy aroma. It’s taste is bitter citrus grapefruit and hint of orange, with a malt background and a lasting citrus bitter finish.

This is an IPA offering from the Cotswold Wychwood Brewery based in Witney Oxfordshire. The ale has been brewed with British and New world hops, giving the typical grapefruit bitterness.

Bristol Beer Factory – Optimist Golden Single Hop Mosaic 5%

A golden coloured ale with grapefruit citrus aroma. It has a smooth taste with a strong grapefruit lasting bitterness.

This is a golden ale from the Bristol Beer Factory in the style of a craft American IPA. A good choice if you are looking for a craft American style citrus flavoured ale.

Greene King – Gluten Free IPA 3.6%

This is a dark golden ale with a malty brewery aroma. The taste is malty with a light hop background.

This ale is a pleasant malty ale and a good session bitter, rather than an IPA. Produced by Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Harper’s Brewing Company – Medusa Ruby Red Ale 5.0%

This is a chestnut red coloured ale with a malty, fruity and toffee aroma. It has a good malty taste, with hints of plum fruits and a light hop bitter finish.

This is a good richer ale with pleasant taste and aroma.

This ale is sold under the Aldi own label ‘Harper’s Brewing Co’, brewed by Marston’s Brewery Burton-on-Trent.