Reviews of the remaining 6 ales of myBrewerytap's 52 Week Beer Club (December pack)

As you may already know,  Chris Routledge & I joined myBrewerytap's 52 Week Beer Club in December last year and received our first quarter's ales a week before Christmas.  We decided to split the tasting of the 13 bottled ales into two sessions, the first of which was at the beginning of January.  On Wednesday last week we decided to try the remaining six bottles.

Here are links to the six ales that we've 'baron rated':

• Best Mates Midsummer Madness [baron rating 1/5 ♫]

• Bitter End Lakeland Golden [baron rating 3/5 ♫]

• Penlon Cardi Bay [baron rating 2/5 ♫]

• Quartz Blonde [baron rating 4/5 ♫]

• Sadler's Thin Ice [baron rating 3/5 ♫]

• Stroud Budding [baron rating 5/5 ♫]

The Stroud Budding was by far the best ale of the night, really nicely balanced, a truly lovely beer. The Best Mates Midsummer Madness was the worst but after hearing another beer blogger's comments on his bottle from the club we feel that the bottle was probably off and not necessarily a fair representation of Best Mates ale.

We recorded some short (1-2 mins) MP3 audio reviews of us discussing the beer a little more than the 140 twitter-friendly limit allows, click each beer review link to find the audio player. 

myBreweryTap's 52 week beer club is well worth the money, at around £1.50 per bottle it's a great way to get to try loads of different ales from small and hard to get breweries - click here to join the club