Roaring Meg (Springhead)

Name: Roaring Meg
Label: "Premium blonde beer with a citrus honey aroma and dry finish"
Brewery: Springhead
ABV: 5.5%

Rating: There are some ace things as well as this beer called Meg: Megan Fox, Meg Ryan and obviously, Mystic Meg

Game: Probably one of the most horrible things I've ever had the misfortune of viewing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH2WemACIM. Once again another example of biased one-sided "debate" between misinformed overfed, overpaid parasites. Alan Titmarsh's head is so far up his own fat arse he can no doubt see the backs of his stupid white teeth. Instead if celebrating the games industry for artistic and technological advancements by talented developers across the world, these clowns focus on highly tenuous links to negative aspects of gaming. Why could the idiots on this panel not get it through their stupid thick heads that games are age restricted anyway? On a more positive note, these tiny minded dinosaurs are dying out slowly but surely leaving us to get on with it. Yes Titmarsh, there are now millions of us who have grown up with gaming and now hold down jobs and raise families. How dare you presume we would expose our kids to violent video games.

Whitstable Bay (Shepherd Neame)

Name: Whitstable Bay
Label: "A modern ale from Britain's oldest brewer - Organic ale"
Brewery: Shepherd Neame
ABV: 4.5%

Rating: Whitstable is obviously better than Herne Bay or they would have named it Herne Bay.

Game: Welcome to my new feature called "Why I Hate DLC" - The new Modern Warfare DLC is priced at a scarily big 1200 Microsoft points which is £10.20 in real money.  After the horror of the Bioshock 2 debacle last week, this is another kick in the teeth for honest gamers. For the benefit of non-regular (irregular?) readers, last week 2K released "downloadable" content that you didn't really need to download because it was already on the disc - so you were effectively paying for it twice.

All the good work done by the developers responsible for the likes of Fallout 3 and GTA IV is quickly being undone by these con-like examples of overpriced content.  Downloadable content packs for Fallout 3 and GTA IV were essentially entire new games set in the same universe rather than an overpriced multiplayer map or level.  I am now boycotting all DLC until Microsoft and the developers revise their pricing models. Even for my favourite games like Assassin's Creed, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Dante's Inferno, they've been hit with sub-standard or overpriced DLC. By boycotting DLC, the money saved would soon build up to cover the cost of a full price retail game. Eat my goal.

Victory Ale (Batemans)

Name: Victory Ale
Label: "England Expects! - Brewed to celebrate the courage of Admiral Nelson and his crew."
Brewery: Batemans
ABV: 6.0%

Rating: FTW!

Game: After their recent DLC shenanigans, I'm really sticking it to 2K now by purchasing Borderlands. That'll learn them. Played about an hour of Borderlands and its head and shoulders above what I thought it would be. RPS - Role Playing Shooter - I think they just made that up.

Fairtrade Bumble Bee Honey Ale (Co-op)

Name: Fairtrade Bumble Bee Honey Ale
Label: "Made with Fairtrade Chilean Wildflower Honey and British malting barley."
Brewery: Brewed for the Co-operative group - actually by who though only they know
ABV: 4.6%

Rating: Is it fair on the bees though? Is it fair on the bees?

Game: This whole DLC issue is playing on my mind a bit now. Talk about a rip-off capitalist culture, crikey.  After my last post, I've had three maybe four minutes to think about it a bit more and I've come to the conclusion that I'm never going to buy anymore DLC. Ever ('cept maybe Guitar Hero tracks).  It maybe time to see what *whispers* Sony... is up to and how they deal with DLC. Also, Sony don't charge (at the moment) for the privilege of playing online but Microsoft do. Maybe its time to switch allegiances?

Sixex (Joseph Holt)

Name: Sixex
Label: "A traditional beer for real players"
Brewery: Joseph Holt
ABV: 6%

Rating: Looks like Coke, tastes like awesome.

Game: "Bioshock 2 DLC Already on the disc - Is That Okay?" http://bit.ly/9fRnEb.  No, that certainly is not ok. So downloadable content is already included on the disc that I've already bought? So buying the downloadable content is effectively unlocking what I've already bought rather than, er... downloading content?  Frankly that stinks.  This situation is like when John Lennon said The Beatles were bigger than Jesus. I'm going to burn my copy of Bioshock 2 - not really, but I have sold it, yesterday before I knew about this article... but anyway feel my wrath 2K!  At least John Lennon was right 2K, at least he was right.

Original Oak Aged Beer (Innis & Gunn)

Name: Original Oak Aged Beer
Label: "Brewed in small batches - Smooth Scottish Beer with hints of toffee, vanilla and oak."
Brewery: Innis & Gunn
ABV: 6.6%

Rating: Probably one of the best beers I've ever had the pleasure of tasting. Wish they'd given it a better name, and why the small bottle?

Game: Playing Bioshock 2 in small bursts just to slog it through to the end. Back playing Dante's Inferno again. It's a joy to play through the nine circles of Hell, it feels welcoming somehow, like I've returned home. Some more achievements to be had as well. Here's my review over at frugalgaming.co.uk. Don't forget to follow @FrugalGaming on Twitter. They is well awesome.

FA (Cains)

Name: FA
Label: "Prize winning - Formidable Ale"
Brewery: Cains
ABV: 5%

Rating: Awesome (formidable) ale. Used to be available in 1 litre cans - why not anymore??

Game: I want to like Bioshock 2, I really do. But I have a problem with it that I just can't put my finger on.  Maybe its just too similar to the first Bioshock.  And when you've seen one rusty corridor, you've seen them all. Looking out of the window at the sharks and jellyfish seems to be a particular highlight at the moment sadly.

Dragon Heart (Cains)

Name: Dragon Heart
Label: "Prize winning - Brown Ale"
Brewery: Cains
ABV: 5%

Rating: Brewed to a 19th century recipe and fermented in traditional open vats.

Game: Played through the three campaigns in Aliens Vs Predator.  Unfortunately this is bog standard FPS fare, however, its really well done and elevated to a level of almost greatness thanks to the franchise subject matter. Marine, Predator and Alien short but sweet (and gory) single player campaigns holds the interest, but not for long to be honest. Game over, man etc etc... 7/10

Pure Ubu (Purity)

Name: Pure Ubu
Label: "God love him, the dog is mad, but an inspiration to all who enjoy doing what they do and who want to be loved for being what they are - Premium amber ale"
Brewery: Purity
ABV: 4.5%

Rating: Pronounced "oo-boo" apparently.  Everything about it is strange... apart from the taste, which is ace.

Game: No proper games today, played a real-life game instead called "Squash" which involves going out of the house to a "leisure centre" that allows you to hit a small ball around an enclosed area.  We're a bit like this but three, possibly four, thousand times not as good.

White Star (Titanic)

Name: White Star
Label: "Founded in 1985 and based in Stoke-on-Trent, Titanic brewery is named in honour of the infamous ship whose captain, Edward Smith, hailed from the Potteries"
Brewery: Titanic
ABV: 4.8%

Rating: So easy to drink it will fool all but the crustiest of sea dogs.

Game: Today was a good day to be an Xbox 360 owner as Sony done a boob.  Thankfully, Microsoft allow you to actually play the games you've bought for your console without coming up with some horrible error message.  And I've only had the red ring of death twice...