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Just picked up a couple of bargains from the Marks & Spencer beer range in Jervis Centre:

"Southwold Dark Ale" (a 7.2% 'barley wine' brewed by Adnams)
and "Cheshire Brown Ale" (4.7% brewed by Stockport's Unicorn)are both going for 1.49 (all the other bottles are between 3 and 4 euro).
The fella working there said they were trying to clear the stock as they weren't selling at all (no surprise if they were asking three and a half quid per bottle), but I checked the BBEs and they're up in July and May respectively so no issue there, especially as they're not hop-forward styles.

Have just got them home so haven't tried them yet, but I've enjoyed Adnam's brews in the past and am partial to a Northern Brown - good few bottles on the shelves so get in there if you have the chance!

Southwold Dark Ale is a rebadge of Tally-Ho. Lovely beer.

Used to buy the fantastic Belgian wheat beer that M&S done, but it just got far too expensive. It used to be worth buying when it was 6 for 5, but then I think they pushed the price over €3 a bottle. <!-- s:( --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s:( -->

Though in fairness it was one of the reasons I started getting into homebrewing so I probably should thank them. <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

1 Southworld left after I've raided the store. Sorry! <!-- s;-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;-) -->


Loads of the other one, though.

&amp;quot;duelly&amp;quot;:32u5do80 wrote: "Cheshire Brown Ale" (4.7% brewed by Stockport's Unicorn)[/quote:32u5do80]

Unicorn is the site of the brewery (like St James Gate), the company is Robinsons.

It's a solid brown ale, imo, lots of brown bread and toffee notes and not too heavy.

Good buy at the price.

Had one Cheshire yesterday, tastes more like a bitter than brown - too caramelly, not enough dryness from brown/amber malts imho. Nothing special.