North Coast PranQster Belgian

A Belgian strong ale drunk at Sail and Anchor from North Coast Brewing.

Not much more than a generic belgian taste, though with a bit of a Heffe taste to it. Very smooth carbonation with a lingering sweetness. After a few sips this stacked up a bit and made the whole experience a shade too sweet for my tastes. Overall dissapointing compared to the other beers that I have enjoyed from North Coast. 6.5

Warka Strong Ale

Fozzie bear. There, I said it.

This beer however is not very muppetty at all, to its immediate detriment. Instead it's a clumsy brute of a beer, at once too sweet and too bitter after an ESB style caramel apple flavour profile in a finishing hops sort of sense. Alcohol at 7.5% comes through too strongly on the nose and the taste, it's sticky and quite difficult to drink cold or not.

I've had worse beers strictly in terms of just taste but the other elements really let this down. As such Warka gets an 'avoid' label, but no 'shit'. 2.5

Fuller's Past Masters XX Strong Ale

Confession: I bought this thinking it was a stout. Imagine my surprise (rage) when I realised I'd bought both something by Fuller's, and an English Strong Ale at that.

Then imagine my bewilderment when it turned out to be pretty damn good. At 7.5 this is a calm beer of the toffee and caramel class, but sits well, with a little coffee and slight 'imperial' alcohol vodka tastes at the end. Aroma's not great.. but I can put up with it.

One of the better beers of this type I've had. 7.5