^As somebody in the comments section points out, it is misleading. Sugar is used in the fermentation process.

Battersea beer festival yesterday (with fire alarm- everybody trooped out with glasses and trooped back in a minute later). I was mostly on session beers but finished with Roman Imperial Stout at 9%

Sierra Nevada on draft in:

http://www.thewhitehartwaterloo.co.uk

A nice American pale, fresher than an English real ale but more tasty than a lager. I may go back for more.

http://www.sierranevada.com/beer/year-round/pale-ale

A glass of Blandy's Duke of Clarence Madeira while watching 'Match of The Day'.

* blue-green algae
* fermented sprouted lentil juice
* fermented sprouted bird seed milk

A large Negroski (cos I've run out of gin):

1 measure Campari,
1 measure Red Vermouth ( Punt E Mes for me today),
1 measure Vodka ( Finlandia )
all stirred together with ice then strained into an ice filled rocks glass with a piece of orange peel (minus white pith) rolled over the top to release the oils and then dropped into glass to finish.

Cheers Chaps !

Had one of these last night:

http://accidentalhedonist.com/beer-reviews-belzebuth/

For the proverbial rocket fuel, indeed, the devil's own spew, it was rather well balanced and quite an elegant beer. I reckon two of them in one sitting would be quite the ideal.

Correct, but in a 25cl bottle I might add.

Obscure Yorkshire beers at the Bricklayers festival in Putney. Took a half days leave from work.
http://www.bricklayers-arms.co.uk

Mostly stuck to weaker session ales.

Hand Drawn Monkey Smaller Stout from Huddersfield was excellent for a 2.8% dark ale with a coffee flavour.

Finished the evening at closing time with an espresso stout  from Bad Seed brewers in Malton @ 7%.

Hurrah! The Marks & Spencers has reopened in the Hague, a lot of excited people in there yesterday, particularly in the food hall. I purchased some of the British bottle conditioned ales, and at €2.60 a pint bottle, whereas the normal price here in the expat shops would be €6.00, a very clear winner!

I had a bottle of the Yorkshire bitter and this was top notch, followed by the Cornish IPA brewed by Ansells. The great thing about supermarket buying power, is that this can sometimes ensure superlative quality, reasonable priced.

Glenfiddich night last night.

This fine double IPA from these Dutch chaps near me:

http://www.eveneenuiltjeknappen.nl/steenuiluk.html

There's a craze here for the craft brewers to make the most over powering hoppy beer possible and along with that barley wines, it makes a refreshing change from the Belgium style strong ales that have tendancy to be too sugary.