Which country brews the best beer?   Since October 2006 I have kept a diary of every bottle of beer I've drunk on a spreadsheet and scored them out of five.   There are a total

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Before the World Cup was assigned to Germanyⁱ, Anheuser Busch bought the rights to supply the official beer. This means the American Budweiser being the only beer allowed to be sold in stadiums.

I am a 30-something bloke living on the south coast of England with my wife Rhian.   We got married in 2007 and are looking to move to the Northⁱ West of England sometime in 2008. &nb

A good little pub just outside of Lyndhurst with good traditional food.   Four hand pulls had local Ringwood brews Best & 49'er plus Tim Taylor Landlord and a very good St Austell Tri

A classic Czechⁱ pilsner taste.   A fresh cut grass aroma and bitterness.   Smooth too.

An intensely sour beer with a sharp taste of rasberries.   Very thirst quenching but a sipping beer.   I do have a small issue with quality control as there is a noticable varia

This is the bitterest pilsner I've tasted.   A grassy bitterness and a very dry beer.

Although the beer has survived change of ownership and breweries by an international brewing giant, its still a good beer.   Unusual with its fragrant coriander and orange taste, fruity b

Germanyⁱ's best selling pilsner style lager.   This is a good example of a German pils - clean tasting with good bitterness.

This is a wheat beer is the kristallweisse fashion, although the wheat side of things is subtle.   This is a dry, clean tasting lager with a good noble hop presence.

The bottle says that its a pilsner style beer but it really seems like a pale golden ale to me.   A good subtle aroma hop flavour and smell with a light pale malty body.   An ex

For an American IPAⁱ, this is very much in the English style.   Earthy hops with loads of bitterness balanced by some malt body.

This is an American blow-your-head-off with hops style IPAⁱ.   Loads of pine resin hoppiness with a bitter afterglow.   Big, brash and in-your-face beer.

IPAⁱ in the English style with a good earthy hoppiness but not too much bitterness in this pale beer.

This beer is a display case for the liberty hop.   A wonderfully citrussy hop flavour in a pale beer with just a little bitterness.   A prime example of what an American beer ca

This pale ale is bordering on IPAⁱ territory.   It has a good amount of hoppiness and bitterness with a maltiness like hazlenut shells.   It has a little floral hop character alm

This is a good example of an English IPAⁱ.   It has an earthy, spicy hop flavour with a good amount of hop flavour but balanced by the malt taste.

This reminds me of a stronger version of Coniston Bluebird.   It is a mellow pale ale with maybe a little elderflower and subtle hopping.

A golden summer beer.   Light and refreshing with citrussy hops and a mellow malt flavour.

The name comes from the wide range of malts going into the mash and the name of a barrel size.   This beer has survived more than one owner of Salopian Brewery and you can see why - its g

A rich, smooth malty porter with roasted and chocolate flavours, but not sweet.  

A good dry full bodied stout.   A fair amount of burnt malt flavour is appreciable.

A very pale beer with a delicate light taste.   A little honey and petals is detectable.