Mud city - Stout

Drink name             Drink makers             Drink type             Drink strength
Mud city stout         Sadlers                       Stout                      6.6%

Strong stout smell on this one (as long as it doesn't smell like a cows arse though I'm usually happy)

On tasting this dark and foreboding looking drink, the first thing that is apparent is the taste of burned toffee and dark chocolate! the after taste is just burned though so they, in my opinion, went a bit over the top with at least one of there ingredients or processes. ok lets face it.... this thing is malt'tastic!

There is also a bit of carbonation to the sup.

I'm a bit unimpressed by the label art but I've seen worse. On the other hand I do get the feeling that this stuff is brewed by a cabal, cult or at least the stone masons! Lets hope none for my sake :-p

When all is said and done, this is a very strong stout and if that is what you like then give it a taste (to quote a Yorkshire set film).


tasty rating
Good as a drink 6/10 Good as an ale 6/10
Can't put down factor 07/10
Good at getting you drunk 7/10
Bottle art 1/10
Rated = 54ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
I bet this would be perfect for a stake n stout pie

Belgian Wheat beer

Drink name / Drink makers             Drink type             Drink strength
     Belgian Wheat beer                     Wheat beer           4.9%

This is a Tesco finest product and as such is not too bad. It's a 750ml bottle and yes it has a cork in it!
(such fun)

This wheat beer has a subtle smell  which is pleasant but it's not as pleasant as the taste!

I'd class this as quite a fruity and fragrant tasting wheat beer, if that makes sense, with a slightly perfume like aftertaste that is just on the border between acceptably and too strong so I would imagine that a few people may find that aftertaste overpowering but I'd say it's still in the realms of acceptably.

All in all, being a bottle that cost on the lighter end of between 2 and 3 pound, I'd say this is a drink well worth enjoying, especially with Oktoberfest almost upon us and  Lederhosen so easy to buy thanks to the Internet.

I'm sure with all of tha wheat beer in you, you may even get to do tha German shlapping dance, yar?!

tasty rating
Good as a drink 8/10 Good as an beer 9/10
Can't put down factor 09/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 6/10
Rated = 74ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
don your Lederhosen and do the slapping dance!

Red Dragon - stout

Drink name          Drink makers             Drink type                 Drink strength
Red Dragon          Red Stripe                  Stout                         7.5%


I smells like a stout, looks like a stout ant tastes like the bastard child of a pint of stout a questionable whisky!

I noticed this stuff going cheap in a local supermarket and said "34 pence!?! well, if you insist" ..which got me some do looks but I mean, come on, if you've not experienced worse you probably deserve you lobotomy you would wish upon others if you weren't so ignorant as to know what it was :-D but I digress!

The bottles I picked up were 284 mL but as the things a 7.5% I think that's fair enough.

This is also made by red stripe and still brewed, I believe, in Jamaica and I must say that as larger like beers go they're done good (larger/beer is usually counted as filth in my eyes).

Plus the bottle art is nice yet simple. I'd have probably assumed it was made in wales if my reading skills were a little worse. So well done to 'em I say!


tasty rating
Good as a drink 7/10 Good as an beer 8/10
Can't put down factor 07/10
Good at getting you drunk 8/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 76ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
I LOVE DRAGONS!!

wheat beer - Erdinger Weibbier

Drink name          Drink makers             Drink type                 Drink strength
Weibbier              Erdinger                     Wheat beer


I like wheat beers in the main and on opening this one I thought I was in for a treat. Alas not!

The taste of this beer is as good and imaginative as its bottle label.
I found it bland in taste. As if someone had watered it down.
Wheat beers should be nice and strong and this one isn't... Unlessssss, It's a wheat larger and then as a larger it's alright :-D

Still, I'd avoid this one.

tasty rating
Good as a drink 3/10 Good as a beer 2/10
Can't put down factor 01/10
Good at getting you drunk 4/10
Bottle art 2/10
Rated = 22ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.

Ice cream - Helmsley

I've found a great place to get ice cream in Helmsley.
It's called Ryebrun tea rooms (at least I think that's what it's called) .
They have a fantastic collection of homemade flavours.
When I was in they had a few sorbets and more ice cream flavours than I can remember from vanilla and  chocolate fudge to whisky and even a bubble gum one. Plus several different choices of cones.

The place is on the same road as the car park entrance so please go in and have a taste :-p

Pale ale Bure gold - Woodfordes

      Drink name               Drink makers                       Drink type                 Drink strength
      Bure Gold                 Woodforde's                         Ale                             4.3%

If I could give this ale a higher rating I would. The first time I tried this was in Great Yarmouth and I was instantly impressed.
It's a pale aromatic beer, which is a taste I like but only when the balance is just so. Often people get the mix wrong, in my opinion, and you end up with something that just isn't right (or maybe it's just because I'm more of a stout lover usually.... mmmm  malty).
It has a slight cloudiness to it due to the old fashioned way it is made apparently and I gotta say the taste is one I have liked so much, I went to their brewery on the way home. Well, I was in the Norfolk area anyway.
It's got hops from Washington in the USA but the malts used are home grown in Norfolk.








tasty rating
Good as a drink 10/10 Good as a beer 10/10
Can't put down factor 10/10
Good at getting you drunk 4/10
Label Art 8/10
Rated = 84ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
 Ah heck, as far as I really care it's as good as 100%! I just can't rate it like that.

Alcoholic lemonade and ginaer beer - Hooper's

I had to try these after trying the Dandelion & Burdock that Hooper's do but I have to say that although they are nice, they are nothing special.

They have an after taste a little like vodka. Now by that I mean that they have an alcohol taste to them no well masked by their actual taste, they don't actually taste of vodka.

On the hole they are nice drinks but not as good as the D&B they do.