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Boston Beer Co, Samuel Adams Lager (USA) This lager has aquite a dark golden/amber colour and a cream-coloured head. It is aromatic and estery, with floral and vivid citrus notes over lots of caramel-coated malt and a nice, nettly hop quality. On the palate it is quite resinous, with lots of wax and bitter hop flavours dominating. There is plenty of tang to this beer, with the creamy texture and dark, malt and biscuity character submerged by pithy acidity. My first taste of this, and I am really quite impressed - a world removed from Bud and Miller. 4.8% ABV, 35.5cl, �1.39, Surf4beer.

Brakespear Brewing Co, Premium Strong Ale (England) The colour of this beer, brewed in Henley by Refresh UK, the new owners of Brakespear, is a ruby/gold, with a thick, persistent white head. On the nose it is very fruity, with lots of soft malty character and a rounded, bready note. On the palate it is dominated by fruit flavours - cherry and red fruits - and there's a really good tang of hops joining the softer background malts in the finish. This is a cut above many canned beers. 5.0% ABV, 44cl, Unwins, Waitrose.

Brasserie de Tahiti, Hinano Tahiti (Tahiti) Well, certainly my first Polynesian beer, this lager pours a medium gold colour with a frothy white head that leaves pronounced lacing on the glass. The nose is fairly muted, with mild hoppiness that is softly grassy and herbal. On the palate there is quite a thick, smooth texture and a nice bitter hop character, with refreshing acidity and bright, crisp flavour. The mid-palate fills out nicely with slightly citrus fruit and the finish is clean. A very nicely made lager, though not distinctive. 5.0% ABV, 33cl, �0.95, Peckhams.

Brasseries du Maroc, Casablanca Lager Beer (Morocco) This pale, straw-gold beer has a delicate, quite hoppy nose, with notes of malted-grain and sour-dough bread. Quite full-bodied and viscose on the palate, there is a richness to this, and a little suggestion of wheat-beer, with a sharp elastoplast character and a certain sweetness. Plenty of sour, hoppy flavour cuts through leaving this easy to drink and quite tasty. 5.0% ABV, 35cl.

Brooklyn Brewery, Black Chocolate Stout (USA) Weighing in with a hefty 8.7 ABV, this is brewed seasonally in winter only each year: this is the 03/04 release, imported by friends from the US. I have to say it is a sensational beer, displaying much better balance than the Thornton's bottling also reviewed. The colour is jet black with a hint of ruby, and the head is a dark tan. On the nose it has a beautiful fruity quality layered with more predictable chocolate, dark-roasted espresso and burnt grain notes. That fine fruity and hoppy aroma manages to hold its own. On the palate it is delightfully bitter and chocolaty, with burnt toast and sweet black cherry playing against a lovely hoppy undertow and lots of solid plum and blackcurrant skin tang. Very long too, this is a must taste beer if you can track it down. 8.7% ABV, 35.5.

Budweiser Budvar, Premium Lager (Czechoslovakia) Medium gold colour with quite a persistent white head. Slightly soapy, perfumed floral note on the nose at first, before a gentle, grassy hoppiness emerges and just a hint of toast. On the palate it is mellow and smooth, with quite a creamy texture and moderate, subtle hop bitterness. There's an orangy tang of citrus acidity in the finish of this elegant, very drinkable lager. 5.0% ABV, 50cl, �1.39, Waitrose, widely available.

Caledonian Brewery, Deuchars IPA (Scotland) This IPA has a medium, burnished gold colour and a creamy, but fast disippating head. On the nose there's a lovely softness and weight of mamalade-scented fruit, hedgerow hops and a background maltiness. It flows onto the palate with great harmony: a seamless, tangy and crisp fruit character with creamy texture and a nice grapefruity hop bitterness into the finish. This beer might not be decisive enough for some who like a lot of hoppy acrobatics, but I thought it was gentle and lovely stuff. 4.4% ABV, 50cl, �1.69, Sainsbury's, quite widely available.

Casta, Dorada (Mexico) The Casta range from Mexico is very smartly packaged, including this golden ale-style beer. The colour is a lovely, burnished barley-sugar gold, with a thick off-white head. The nose has a milky, Horlicks character, lots of honey and a very refined hop quality - it is intriguing and inviting. On the palate this has a thick, creamy texture and full body, with more of that lush, honeyed, very creamily-malted character and a good, dry pear fruit base. The hopping is excellent, with bite and acidity, but no harshness. A really top class beer. 5.4% ABV, 33cl, �1.29, Peckhams, Surf4beer.

Casta, Milenia (Mexico) This is a Belgian Abbey-style dark beer, showing the ambition of this craft brewery in Mexico. It pours a deep, hazy orange/amber with a high-rise off-white head that subsides to a lace. The nose is extremely fruity, with a definite banana aroma, orange and lots of sweet caramel. On the palate the caramel and Seville orange flavours continue, with lots of bitter orange-oil notes, spices and a nice, full texture. This does not have the depth of the best dark Abbey beers, but it is very good indeed and has lots of flavour. Almost sneaks a full four stars. Only 5,000 bottles made. 8.0% ABV, 33cl.

Casta, Triguera Wheat Ale (Mexico) This beer has a light to medium golden colour and avery thin and quickly dissipating white head. The nose is immediately fruity, with banana and ripe pear joined by a hint of clove. On the palate it has low carbonation and a medium body, with lots of orange fruit and a clean, citrus acidity. There's a little hoppy crispness and a gentle warmth, with a background note of honey in the finish of this easy-drinking wheat beer that went well with spicy Chinese food. 5.4% ABV, 33cl, �1.29, Peckhams, Surf4beer.