I Like Beer!

There are no two ways about it - Beer is my friend. So I have compiled a list of beers that I have a particularly soft spot for and listed them in no particular order. If you come across any of these beers on your travels I HIGHLY recommend trying them.

Beer is always better fresh from the brewery - so if you pass ones with brewery shops (Hogsback and Harveys definately have brewery shops) pop in and ask for a few pints of Bright or get more in a polypin (but if you are buying that much it is probably best to get sedimented)

As I find more I will add them in, but for now this will have to do.

Pumpclip	Brewery	Ale	Description
	Hogsback	T.E.A.	ABV 4.2% Traditional English Ale is the best known Hogsback brew and it has won a lot of awards (including Bronze in the 'Champion Beer of Britain' category medal at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival). It is quite readily available in Surrey and rightly so.
	Harvey's	Sussex Best Bitter	ABV 4.0% The website says...."Winner of the First Prize Gold Medal at the International Brewers' Exhibition in 1980, this beer is brewed to an original gravity of 1036° -1040° from a recipe which has evolved over many years. It is a full, well-hopped bitter with a reputation that exceeds the borders of its native and adjoining counties." This is the beer at got me into ale drinking as many of the pubs in the area I grew up in sold it (no - I was not under-age drinking) and the brewery was just 15 miles down the road. Whenever I go back that way I make sure I get a cople of pints of Harvey's inside me.
	Shepard's Neame	Spitfire	ABV 4.5% Spitfire is a nationally known ale, you have little problem finding it wherever you are in the country (as places like the J.D. Wetherspoon chain carry it) and it seems to be the popular face of ale. It is a good beer and a great introduction to ale for the uninitiated as well as beeng a good all rounder.
	Goacher's	????	ABV ?.?% Goacher's is a brewrey in Maidstone (Kent) and I found some of their beer in a pub in kent. I know nothing about the brewery or what beer of their range I was drinking but it was good! It was a nice dark ale which was satisfyingly rich and I will be having more whenever I head that way again.

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