The Great British Beer Festival

What I sampled on my Thursday.

Brains' SA 4.2%
Highland's Orkney IPA 4.3%
Wells Bombardier 4.3%
Young's Special 4.5%
Dark Star's American Pale Ale 4.7% (This took Bronze overall, I believe)
Karg's Weissbier 5% (Unsurprisingly a German beer; prompted remarks along the lines of "What the hell is that?  Chicken stock?")
Aecht Shlenkerla's Rauchbier Marzen 5.1% (Also unsurprisingly German; very much smokey bacon in a pint glass)
Fat Cat's Marmalade Cat 5.5%
Milestone's Raspberry Wheat Beer 5.6% (Not to be confused with Berliner Weisse)
Kinver's Khyber 5.8% (Naturally, this provoked a round of Carry On Up The Khyber-inspired bandinage)
Greene King's 5X 12%

Having breakfasted on a rather nice fry-up, this was then all soaked up with a mixture of biltong, Cornish pasties, bratwurst (with currywurst ketchup; brilliant!) and fish and chips right at the end of the day.  Yum.

Mind you, for an event encouraging (sensible) drinking of real ales and so forth, it also sadly managed to push home how pricey the stuff is getting...