{"id":8788,"date":"2014-01-03T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2014-01-03T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T19:43:52","slug":"some-interesting-looking-beers-from-tesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/beer\/some-interesting-looking-beers-from-tesco","title":{"rendered":"Some interesting looking beers from Tesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/beers0114.JPG\" alt=\"beers\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\"\/><br \/>\nThe good thing about beer is that it&#8217;s fairly easy to get hold of good ones even in supermarkets, where finding interesting wine is quite tricky. I popped into a Tesco branch yesterday and came away with several beers that looked worth a try (including a couple of old friends). None were expensive. Overall, a good bunch, although I am a bit worried that boring beers are now beginning to dress themselves up to look like craft beers, even though they taste a bit dull and industrial. This could be a real problem for craft beer: in the past, you could usually tell from the label whether a beer was going to be interesting or not. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Innis &#038; Gunn Lager Beer<br \/>\n<\/strong>4.6% alcohol. Inspired by German beer, this is a pale colour. It\u2019s smooth and creamy with some toffee and vanilla notes. Accessible and quite distinctive. 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shipyard Brewing Company IPA American Craft Beer<br \/>\n<\/strong>5.8% alcohol. Fuggles hops. Tangy and herby, and slightly bitter, with some hoppy notes. A bit chemical. 5\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pistonhead Kustom Lager, Sweden<br \/>\n<\/strong>4.6% alcohol. Custom spelt with a \u2018K\u2019? How very 1980s. Lively, hoppy, tangy, full flavoured lager with some malty richness. Nicely bitter edge. 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nils Oscar God Lager<br \/>\n<\/strong>5.3% alcohol. Complex, herby and malty with nice hoppiness. Intense and quite powerful with nice tension between the sweetness and bitterness. 8\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revisionist Craft Lager<br \/>\n<\/strong>5% alcohol. Made by Marstons, this is rather good. Lovely fresh, lemony, hoppy style of lager with nice orange peel and lemon notes, as well as subtle malt. 8\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Adams Boston Lager<br \/>\n<\/strong>4.8% alcohol. Fresh, lively and quite malty with rich flavours and a hint of sweetness, as well as a citrussy kick. Some honey and toffee notes. 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brewdog Punk IPA<br \/>\n<\/strong>5.6% alcohol. Now better than ever, and a step above the other beers here with amazing floral, grapefruit and passionfruit aromatics, with some elderflower too. Sweet palate with honey, citrus fruit and spice. Just lovely. 9\/10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hastings Handmade No 5 Cask Pale Ale<br \/>\n<\/strong>4.8% alcohol. Fresh, hoppy, lemony and herby with bright fruity notes and some hoppy bitterness. 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good thing about beer is that it&#8217;s fairly easy to get hold of good ones even in supermarkets, where finding interesting wine is quite tricky. I popped into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-8788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}