Our Tastings


West Berkshire Brewery – Dr. Hexter’s Healer

wbb-dr-hexters-healer-pump-clip-300x300Full-bodied and highly hopped, this award-winning ale is packed with rich flavours and marmalade zestiness.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.8 / 5)

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Guinness Golden Ale

guiness-golden-aleA beautifully balanced ale with a delicate hop aroma, subtle malty biscuit flavours and a refreshingly crisp finish.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (2 / 5)

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Wild Weather Ales – United States Of Whatever

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A Pale base sits beautifully with Mosaic hops creating a tropical Mango plinth before being blown away by kilos of mango puree, close your eyes, doth grass skirt and be transported to a tropical place.

A 3.8% session beer.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.3 / 5)

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Renegade Brewery – India Session Ale

renegade-india-session-ale-round-lens-with-lineA sessionable, complex, hop-laden, chewy beast of an IPA from our friends at West Berkshire Brewery

For those who love hops but not the knee trembling ABV ( e.g. Wayne) , look no further.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4 / 5)

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SPECIAL EVENT – Lagerfest

lager5.5 billion pints of lager were drunk in the UK in 2015. Surely it can’t all be terrible.

In order to check that The Regulars are not missing something, The Harper Arms will be holding its very own Lagerfest.

Naturally it will be ice cold, fizzy and tasteless. Probably not “perfect for a summers day” but who knows!

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Wild Weather Ales – Fiddler on the Reef

Fiddler-KegSimcoe Hopped

American Amber

Er… That’s it from the boys at Wild Weather

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.8 / 5)

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Wild Weather Ales – Big Muddy

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English Ale – 3.8%

Big Muddy is a tawny ale where a smooth malty bitterness combines with floral spicy and mild citrus hoppy overtones.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4.5 / 5)

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Hogs Back – TEA

tea-323x400A Classic Best Bitter

An enticing amber colour with a hoppy and slightly fruity aroma. Using the finest English malt carefully balanced with local Fuggles hops, it is gently fermented to leave some of the natural malt sugars, to give a full and satisfying flavour with a long, dry finish.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.5 / 5)

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Wild Weather Ales – Thirty Lives

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Thirty Lives takes full bodied fruit flavors and translates them into a tantalizing tropical tongue experience. Starting with mango’s and honeydew melon on the nose and leading into a rich mouthfeel with an explosion of pink grapefruit and white grape. A summer behemoth!!

Mosaic & Huell Melon American Wheat – 4.4%

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4 / 5)

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Morland – Old Golden Hen

Old Golden Hen

Morland’s Greene King’s “Old Golden Hen” captures a celestial ray of sunshine in the form of a rare and very special Tasmanian hop called Galaxy

A light gold hoppy bitter with loads of peach and grapefruit on the nose, and a broad, fruity taste, finished off with gentle bitterness..

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.3 / 5)

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Windsor & Eton – Eton Boatman

Eaton Boatman

Eton Boatman (4.3% ABV) is a golden ale and was released as the perfect beer for cheering on the Olympic rowing at Eton Dorney, less than a mile away from the Windosr & Eaton brewery.

Eton Boatman has a fresh, clean and full flavoured taste. It is made with a combination of American Citra hops producing citrus flavours and Australian Galaxy hops giving hints of exotic fruit. A perfect beer for those summer months

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.8 / 5)

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Wizard – Robinsons Brewery

Robinsons Wizard

This is the stuff of Cheshire legend (The Wizard of Alderley Edge), combined with 5 English hops, pale, wheat and magical crystal malts.

The result is Wizard, a mythical amber ale with a spell-binding fruity, zesty palate…and a tantalising hint of blackcurrant.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (2.8 / 5)

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Loose Cannon – Abingdon Bridge

abingdon-bridge-600x600Traditional with a modern twist. Loose Cannon’s first and still most popular brew. A copper hue belies the floral aroma of this thirst quenching beer. Smooth malty notes with a balanced hoppy finish.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.5 / 5)

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Wild Weather Ales – Keyboard Warrior

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Simcoe Single Hop English Brown Ale – 3.9%

Who says an English brown ale should be dull?  Keyboard Warrior takes a traditional base and then rocks it’s world with a whole heap of Simcoe creating massive grapefruit, pine and lime notes finishing with a hint of orange zest.

Very appropriate name for The Regulars.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4 / 5)

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Beavertown – Neck Oil Session IPA

Beavertown-Neck OilBeavertown’s Session IPA Neck Oil pack a huge amount of flavour into a light, refreshing beer. It is crammed full of hops that are added a different times during the brew to bring out their individual flavours while reducing the bitterness. It starts out very dry to taste that is then quickly overtaken by the floral fruity notes of the hops before a dry, hoppy full-flavoured finish that makes a mockery of its low abv.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4.5 / 5)

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Hunters – Pheasant Plucker

pheasantPluckerA selection of bottled conditioned beers from Hunters Brewery.

Pheasant Plucker, a light gold speciality ale with an aroma of spicy hops, molasses and cocoa and a rich and fruity taste.

Devon Dreamer is an Amber Bitter with an aroma of orange and fresh goldings and a zesty, refreshing and well balanced taste.

Bluebeard’s Revenge – The Ultimate Pale Ale! Really?

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): Not Rated. Sampling Only

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Wild Weather Ales – Shepherds Warning

Shepherd WarningShepherds Warning is a pale IPA where the flavour begins soft and smooth building to a wonderful big hit of hoppy grapefruit, peach and mango.

At 5.6% it should carry a warning!

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (5 / 5)

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Wild Weather Ales – Choppy Waters

Wild Weather Ales - Choppy WatersNo marketing babble has yet been published by Wild Weather Ales – or as far as I can find.  So I’ll make some up.

Citrus hops, fairy dust and water from the moon make Choppy Waters a truly out of this world beer.  Made from an ancient recipe that can be traced back to the Cavemen this beer will make you more attractive to women, make you stronger and faster than you’ve ever experienced and give a rapier wit to rival Comedy Club headliners the world over.

 

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (3.8 / 5)

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Binghams – Space Hoppy IPA

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Refreshing golden India Pale Ale with citrus hops. No marketing bullshit from this brewer  – Thanks Binghams 🙂

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4.5 / 5)

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Rebellion – Waterloo


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Waterloo is a chestnut ale with a crisp hoppy finish. The aroma hop, Hallertau Blanc, was only released in 2012. It has a bold and fresh profile and will contribute gooseberry, lemongrass and passionfruit character similar to a glass of its namesake Sauvignon blanc.

Harper Arms Rating (5=Tribute, 1=Carling): (4 / 5)

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