Marcus Briggs has been reviewing independent breweries and their beers for a few years now. Not ratings out of ten or any of that nonsense. Just honest notes about what he has tried and whether it is worth your money.
The British craft beer scene has changed beyond recognition in the last decade. There are now over 1,900 independent breweries operating in the UK. That is more per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. Some of them are producing genuinely brilliant beer. Some of them are not. The point of these notes is to help sort one from the other.
Everything here is bought and paid for at full price. Nobody sends free samples. Nobody gets special treatment. If a beer is good it gets said. If it is not good that gets said too.
Styles covered include pale ales, IPAs, stouts, porters, bitters, saisons, and the occasional lager when it deserves attention. There is no snobbery about it. A well-made bitter from a small brewery in Yorkshire is worth just as much attention as a triple-hopped IPA from a place with exposed brickwork and a logo designed by someone who charges by the hour.