Goldings (Marston's)

Name: Goldings
Label: "Single hop - English hop - Blonde ale with an aroma of spices, honey & caramel"
Brewery: Marston's
ABV: 4.0%

Rating: "The quintessential noble English hop. Grown in Kent for more than 200 years and the foundation for many traditional bitters, Goldings delivers a pale Blonde Ale with subtle spice, honey and caramel notes."  I could have drunk gallons of this, alas, I only had one bottle. It's that good even the bottle looks drunk in the picture.

Game: Still not been able to shift my current XCOM addiction.  All the other games have gone out the window. Literally. There's a pile of games on the path three storeys below my window all with sad faces. DLC has been announced for XCOM too.  With Halo 4 and Assassin's Creed 3 imminent, are these going to end up on the pavement as well?

Goldings (Shepherd Neame)

Name: Goldings
Label: "Summer Hop Ale"
Brewery: Shepherd Neame
ABV: 4.5%

Rating: Described as "Light malty flavours and smoothness provide a refreshing summer ale with notes of new-mown grass".

Game: I'd had my eye on the Saboteur for some time and then I spied it with my little eye for just eleven English pounds. It's got explosions, boobs and lots of Nazi killing opportunities.  Hopefully Saboteur 2 will contain Nazis with exploding boobs but until then this is just fine.  It plays like a cross between GTA and Assassin's Creed but doesn't do either particularly well. It is, however, a whole lot of fun.