Cold Town Beer Porn Star Martini Ale Beer Review

8/5/2022

Welcome to the Drink in the Sights Cold Town Beer Porn Star Martini Ale Beer Review. It's LIDL beer festival time and having recently visited the Cold Town Brewery Tap on my tour Edinburgh bars I wasn't going to miss the chance to try one of their stranger concoctions, a Porn Star Martini Ale. I have to start by saying I don't remember ever having a Porn Star Martini, I mean why would I when there's so many great beers to try? But I gather they're very fruity, and very sweet, so I guess that's what I'm expecting here. The beer comes in the usual Cold Town Beer bright 330ml can and contains 4.6% alcohol, which I imagine is less than the cocktail version, but that's probably for the best.

Cold Town Beer Porn Star Martini Ale has a seriously strong passion fruit, peachy aroma which will hit you as soon as you open the can even if you stand quite a distance away. The beer pours like a very clear lager like colour with a small white head. If I'm honest I'm a little surprised by how much I enjoyed Cold Town Beer Porn Star Martini Ale, mainly because I thought it might be a complete disaster, I mean a Porn Star Martini Ale, really? But Cold Town Beer seem to have pulled it off. You'll get a thin lager like texture, but the taste is quite powerful with oodles of passion fruit and just a hint of vanilla giving a really sweet taste. Some people may say it's too sweet, but really it's difficult to complain about that given the beers name so if you're one of those people stop whining. Cold Town Beer Porn Star Martini Ale is far from my favourite style of beer, but it does what it says on the can and you have to respect it for that. 8/10.

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Ice Breaker from Greene King Beer Review

4/5/2022

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Welcome to the Drink in the Sights Ice Breaker from Greene King Beer Review. I picked this beer up at The Pyewipe in Lincoln, it's a lovely pub down the river if you're in the city and fancy a walk. Before I talk about the beer I want to mention the glass it came in. It's horrible. Honestly it's like a poorly shaped tankard with the handle missing making it far from ideal to pick up, and it just looks absolutely rubbish. Anyway it was a warm day so why not try a pale ale? Ice Breaker from Greene King pours a fairly clear amber colour with a decent white head, so it's a fairly standard looking pale ale, that clocks in at a fairly standard 4.5% alcohol.

You'll get a predominantly citrus based aroma, with some generally fruity notes, which is a shame as I'm really not a fan of citrus based beers, there's just way too many of them these days. Not surprisingly the taste very much matches the smell with plenty of citrus and grapefruit notes coming through so if that's the kind of beer you like then Ice Breaker from Greene King will be a perfectly pleasant experience for you. It's not really one for me though, and I have to say I much prefer the standard Greene King IPA. 3/10.

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Giggle and Titter from Parkway Brewing Co Beer Review

24/2/2022

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Welcome to the Drink in the Sights Giggle and Titter from Parkway Brewing Co Beer Review. This is my second Parkway Brewing Co review, and again I picked the beer up for just a quid in Home Bargains, so it should be value for money if nothing else. Giggle and Titter from Parkway Brewing Co comes in a very plain 500ml bottle and contains a very plain 3.8% alcohol. The beer pours a cloudy reddish brown with a pretty pathetic lacing head. This beer certainly won't be winning any beauty pageants, not that we worry about such superficial things these days. It also appears to be pretty fizzy, which I'm not sure is ideal in a bitter. All that said though there's a very nice sweet caramel malts aroma coming through, with just a couple of light fruit notes, so that's much more like it.

Giggle and Titter from Parkway Brewing Co has a light to medium texture, and as expected it feels a bit to fizzy for my liking. Again though that's a fairly superficial thing and actually the taste is pretty good. There's some good caramel notes, along with some vague fruity hops blended together quite nicely. The bitter finish is exactly what you'd expect from the style, and overall it honestly tastes quite nice. If only it felt as good as it tasted this would be a really decent beer. Still it's a good solid bitter, with a very sessionable percentage, and for a pound you can't really grumble. So Giggle and Titter from Parkway Brewing Co gets 7.5 out of 10.

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