The beer reviews on this page are short feature articles, with tasting notes for both draught and bottled beers. Please also see the main beer-pages tasting notes page for a lot more bottled beer reviews by Roger Rrotz and Tom Cannavan.

The immensely complex Coopers Vintage Ales of Australia Marks & Spencer embrace bottle-conditioned ales with four new beers Waitrose adds some impressive new craft beers to its seasonal range Cains Organic Wheat Beer, great stuff from this revitalised brewery Sinclair brewery and its Orkney and Atlas beers The bottled beers of Herefordshire's Wye Valley brewery Cooper's Australia, Sparkling Ale and Pale Ale Brakspear Triple, a unique strong ale from this revived brewer One of the best new beers of 2005 - Duchy Originals Winter Ale A walk on the dark side, with Budvar Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, a great Californian beer John Bull Bitter - the revival of a great british brand Hail to the Champion bottled beer of 2004: Titanic Stout