Still in England. Today I went to a supermarket and chose a couple of beers off the shelf, in between sobs at the price difference compared to back home where English ale is a speciality product.
I came away with Wadworth 6X, which is one of the better bitters. It's not quite as sharp as my Bateman's benchmark, but a fruity smoothness comes in to compensate for that. A well-balanced beer, all in all.
My big find, however, was Daleside Duff. This is a fantastically complex beer and achieves the Holy Grail of English bitter by being smooth and easy-drinking while still loaded with flavour. It's all there in spades. Welcome to the pantheon.
BrewDog Tokyo*
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*Origin: UK | Date: 2017 | ABV: 16.5% | On The Beer Nut: *June 2010
A caveat to the claim above: in 2010 Tokyo* was 18.2% ABV and that's the
version I re...
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