Tag Archives: Clear Glass

Faversham Steam Brewery Whitstable Bay Red IPA (4.5%)

A Shepherd Neame brand, Faversham Steam Brewery have managed to create a bloody awful beer. It’s limp and watery, it has a sorrowful apology for malts, with thin toffee and a little bit of bran flakes, and any hops that … Continue reading

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Bird’s Brewery Apocalypse (4.8%)

This is absolutely awful. Apocalyptically awful. As I poured it the skunky smell hit me right away. Clear glass bottle, so no surprise there. And it’s yet another example of how dangerous it is to make a claim like “Earth shattering … Continue reading

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Shepherd Neame Rebranded Bishop Finger (5.4%)

Right then. I like the folks at Shepherd Neame. They’re friendly and, most importantly, they’re open to criticism, take it on the chin and more than most, they appear to take it on board. Why am I saying all this? … Continue reading

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Lancaster Brewery Lancaster Black (4.6%)

“Award Winning Stout,” proclaims the label. That’ll be the cask version I imagine. It certainly can’t be the bottle as the clear glass has once again turned what may have been a decent chocolate heavy, coffee rich Stout into a … Continue reading

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Lancaster Brewery Lancaster Blonde (4.1%)

Clear glass strikes again. This could be a crisp, refreshing golden beer, but instead it smells of almost nothing and tastes of lightly hopped damp ashtrays, fag ends and stale badness. WIll everyone please stop buying beer presented in clear … Continue reading

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