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Gizmo - Electric Bear - 4.0.% ABV. B++, back on the Pints, back on the Cask. Fruity on the nose, hoppy, light with hints of spice. Lingering fruity, spicy, bitter finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. Bath’s finest on cask and it’s wonderful. Hazy and get another Pint in sharpish. Quality Beanoing.
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Time Hops: Strata - Siren / Fort George - 6.0% ABV. B++ and a touch. Intense and amplified. Wonderful Strata hops and then more some. #ale #beer #bier
3.6/5. £6.90 for two thirds and it’s totally worth it. For hop lovers. Should have gone for the Pint. Banging.
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Final Boss - Siren Craft Brew - 5.0% ABV. B++, hazy and tropical tasting banger. Fruity with a hint of spice. Sharp, fruity and bitter finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. An after lunch, sit back and enjoy hazy. Moved onto Keg. But no matter, Fine Ales are Fine Ales.
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Boho - Cwrw Otley - 4.5% ABV. B++, roasty base, hints of cherry and coconut with a late fruity bitter finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. At the Bunch of Grapes 🍇 #Pontypridd Brewed here and added to Untappd by me.
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Funky Monkey - Frome Brewing - 4.0% ABV. B+ and a touch. Light with a gentle malty base. Hints of fruit in the body. Pleasant #ale #beer #bier
3.1/5. Another Cask fresh on. The sun is out and I’m listening to MacBreak Weekly. It will be a nice day in the Park.
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In Through The….. Pontypridd The Tumble 2026
No commentary, just background noise.
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Black Jack - Flack’s - 4.6% ABV. B+ and a bit, fruity, malty and gently roasty. Think it’s fresh on and it’s quality #ale #beer #bier
3.3/5. In the Tumble #Pontypridd listening to quality Tech News and Content. Robb is going to wear a hat @dtnsshow@mstdn.social
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Bitter - Rhymney Brewery - 4.5% ABV. B+ nice to see this Pint of Valley Cooking still at 4.5%. Cask fresh on #ale #beer #bier
3/5. Still a bit cold but the tastes are beginning to come through. Listening to The Daily Tech News Show.
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Premiership Dream Team:
For Monday 26 January 2026
1 G Price 2 P Dysart 3 S McIntosh 4 Ty 5 R Culliford 6 Dug 7 C Morris 8 D Hyatt 9 GY 10 H Stothard
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Red Beard - Glastonbury Brewery - 4.6% ABV. B+ and a bit, interesting, fruity, malty and hoppy. Fruity and maybe spicy finish #ale #beer #bier
3.3/5. Hats 🎩 off to Somerset for producing some innovative Cask Ales. Another weather warning from 13:00 today.
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Haze Ventura Pint Detective - Quantock Brewery - 4.3% ABV. B+ and a bit, quality name. Hoppy, juicy, fruity with fruity lingering finish #ale #beer #bier
3.3/5. Moving on to The Pen and Wig #Newport Craft on Cask and The Chief having new SIM problems.
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Old Ale - Adnams - 4.1% ABV. B+ and a bit. Milds work well in January. Rich, malty, chocolate and coffee. Fruitiness and chocolate in the finish #ale #beer #bier
3.3/5. Old School but still highly relevant. A beer to sit in the corner and watch the world go by. JWL, Newport.
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Thieving Rogue - Magpie Brewery - 4.5% ABV. B+, maybe slightly over as less floral and more powerful malty bitterness #ale #beer #bier
3/5. However, £1.49 a Pint as it’s Monday Club. John Wallace Linton, Newport. With Monday Tipplers and Travellers.
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Premiership Dream Team:
For Sunday 25 January 2026
1 G Price 2 P Dysart 3 S McIntosh 4 Ty 5 R Culliford 6 Dug 7 C Morris 8 GY 9 D Hyatt 10 H Stothard
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Beers Of The Beano - Saturday 24 January 2026
Staff Changes in The Platform, Caerphilly. Dark Element’s 2nd Birthday and Putty arriving on Thursday. Superior Saturday Beanoing.
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For Saturday 24 January 2026
The Saturday Wrap for Saturday 24 January 2026. Blue Monday, Mp3tag, Davos, Instructions, Hong Kong, bus app, TDE, Depressing, 17:00, Weather Warning, Burns Week, Reddit. #SaturdayWrap #Bedwas #January2026
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Premiership Dream Team:
For Saturday 24 January 2026
1 G Price 2 P Dysart 3 S McIntosh 4 Ty 5 Dug 6 R Culliford 7 GY 8 H Stothard 9 D Hyatt 10 D Parry
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Glasshouse - Dark Element / Glasshouse - 5.6% ABV. B++, sharp, hoppy with maybe a hint of spice. Spice, bitter finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. Dark Element with a quality variety of Birthday Beer Collabs. Still light, so Spring must be on the way.
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Space Truckin’ - Silent Brew Co - 4.7% ABV. B++, sour, sharp and refreshingly fruity. Deep Purple reference and a quality brew #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. Dark, sour and very Deep Purple. Maybe, a touch of The Expanse too. The Project, Caerphilly.
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Azvex - Dark Element / Azvex - 6.5% ABV. B++, full bodied, alcoholic, hoppy, complex fruity finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. Two great breweries and a quality and different Collab Brew. Now pouring in The Project, Caerphilly.
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Flowerhorn - Dark Element / Flowerhorn - 4.3% ABV. B++, big fruity nose. Hazy, hoppy and gently bitter in the finish #ale #beer #bier
3.5/5. At The Project, Caerphilly for Dark Element Brew Co 2nd Birthday. 6 Collabs, all quality brews.
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Prelude - Beers Of The Beano - Saturday 24 January 2026
Dark Element Brew Co’s second birthday. Wet and windy. Burst pipes and fuel prices and Beer drinking. Nearly Spring.
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Martyr - Bishop Nick - 4.5% ABV. B+ and a bit, well balanced, malty with plenty of fruity hoppiness. Understanding this #ale #beer #bier
3.3/5. Bar Maid said it was probably the end of the barrel but it’s great. Cask Ale with Washington Hops. Think the rain has stopped.
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Talon APA - Loddon - 5.0% ABV. B+, not sure what to say about this. There’s a slightly odd fruitiness, in fact it is completely odd. However, a grower #ale #beer #bier
3/5. Sharp, odd fruitiness with a fruity bitter finish. Still a unique for Untappd. Rainy Saturday in The Malcolm Uphill.
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For Saturday 24 January 2026
The Saturday Wrap for Saturday 24 January 2026. Blue Monday, Mp3tag, Davos, Instructions, Hong Kong, bus app, TDE, Depressing, 17:00, Weather Warning, Soup, Burns Week, Seed Potatoes, Reddit. #SaturdayWrap #Bedwas #January2026
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