Ahhh, peat! Just the ticket for [checks notes] the hottest night of the year so far… 🤣🤷‍♂️🥃 I don’t care, though, because it’s ruddy tasty. Smoked meats, cola, balsamic-macerated tropical fruit. Belting.

Official Beer of Barbecue! At least for this evening… 👌🍻🍗

Can never get enough of this from Innis & Gunn; the richness and complexity of beers thrice the price… Chocolate, butter, toffee, vanilla, coconut. Sweet dark rum, rum cake, toasted sugar, boozy raisins, light oak. Balancing, savoury malt; brown bread. Lightly creamy. Lush!

Revisiting another of these; it was just so good last time…and not disappointed this time either!

You can’t call something “cream stout” and expect me not to buy it, can you?! Very tasty stuff from St. Peter's Brewery; plenty of dark chocolate, coffee, pumpernickel, liquorice, vanilla, dark malt, oak, earthiness…and, errr, creaminess. Loving the flask-style bottle, too.

Very enjoyable from Little Ox Brew Co. More of a pale ale than a bitter - coniferous hops dominate the subtle underlying caramels - but clean, fresh, and huge flavour for such a low ABV.

A nice, clean, solid NEIPA from Little Ox Brew Co. Nothing too radical, but resinous + fruity (pine + pineapple!), crisp, and bitter, with a pleasant hit of balancing malty sweetness.

Returning to this straightforward-but-delicious Talisker for ex-bourbon sweetness and a light touch of sweet peat to finish off the weekend… (The wine cask influence is (very) modest here. A spicy tannin or two around the edges, but creamy vanilla’s leading the show…)