It has been a good few years since I drank beer with any degree of regularity and so I am completely out of touch with what is available. When lockdown began in the UK I decided to sample the beers available from my local supermarkets. I’ll be concentrating on IPAs as these are what I have found myself drinking in recent years, mainly Brewdog’s Punk IPA and a range of since forgotten others drunk while at boardgame conventions. The rating scale I’ll be using for rating beer is derived from the board game rating scale over at boardgamegeek.

- Outstanding – will always enjoy drinking and expect this will never change
- Excellent – always enjoy drinking it
- Very good – enjoy drinking and would suggest it
- Good – usually willing to drink
- Ok – will drink if in the mood
- Average – take it or leave it
- Not so good – maybe would drink this again if desperate
- Bad – probably won’t drink this again
- Very bad – won’t drink ever again
- Awful – undrinkable