Proper Job (St Austell)

Name: Proper Job
Label: "Bottle Conditioned - Cornish IPA - Powerfully Hopped"
Brewery: St Austell Brewery
ABV: 5.5%

Tasting notes: "A 'proper' India Pale Ale, Proper Job is a strong golden ale that's powerfully hopped."

Game: This week we're playing Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries. Three episodes which are quick, punchy and slicey. Don't think it rated all that well at release but this was a Black Friday deal so it only cost £3 for the lot. And it's well worth £3 which is probably the same amount as a couple of loot boxes in other "games". Classic Walking Dead storytelling and it's well worth the three hundred pence.

Rating: 8 beheaded zombies out of 10

Welsh Pale (Glamorgan)

Name: Welsh Pale
Label: "#drinkitin"
Brewery: Glamorgan Brewing Co.
ABV: 4.3%

Tasting notes: "A well-rounded pale ale with intense citrus, tropical and lime flavours. Hints of pine oil finished with a clean, hoppy bitterness."

Game: Another epic sized figurine in the Eaglemoss Alien and Predator Collection. Here is the Bonus Edition 1: Space Jockey Figurine.  It's a fantastic edition to the collection at 22cm tall, over 20cm in diameter and a whopping 2kg in weight. Brilliantly painted and excellently detailed.

Rating 9/10

Bonus Edition 1: Space Jockey Figurine

Pirates Gold (Wooden Hand)

Name: Pirate's Gold
Label: "Brewed and bottled in Truro Cornwall"
Brewery: Wooden Hand Brewery
ABV: 4.0%

Tasting notes: "Easy drinking pale coloured ale, a tempting hop aroma with light fruit notes. Strong malt and hop flavours with a dry tangy fruit finish."

Game: Limited edition time from Eaglemoss - The U.S.C.S.S. Nostromo. This is numbered 1461 of 3000. Looks great, if a little pricey for the size but we don't mind paying a bit extra for limited runs! That's forty-two million in adjusted dollars sat in my display cabinet. That’s minus payload, of course.

Rating: 7/10

The U.S.C.S.S. Nostromo

Wold Gold (Wold Top)

Name: Wold Gold
Label: "Wold Famous Blonde Beer - Brewed on our Yorkshire Farm"
Brewery: Wold Top Brewery
ABV: 4.8%

Tasting notes: "Wold Gold a blonde continental style beer, a heady mix of predominantly Wold grown Barley, Wheat and Cara malt hopped with Goldings and Styrian Goldings hops give the beer its soft, fruity flavour with a hint of spice. Year on year our best selling bottled beer."

Game: Another quick one, Issue 17 of the Alien and Predator Figurine Collection, Ronald Noland Figurine from Predators.  Sadly on one side of the box it refers to him as "Roland Noland" as opposed to Ronald Noland. But other than that, this figurine is excellent quality complete with salvaged Predator gear.

Rating: 7.5/10

Issue 17 Ronald Noland

Hellfire (Leeds Brewery)

Name: Hellfire
Label: "A premium pale ale"
Brewery: Leeds Brewery
ABV: 5.2%

Tasting notes: "Choicest Chinook and Centennial hops create a hop forward beer with a fruity tasting bitterness"

Game: Another Eaglemoss delivery, here is Issue 16 - the Elder Predator Figurine inspired by the crossover movie Alien vs Predator. Another quality figurine with fancy combistick and luxurious red cape!

Rating 8/10

Issue 16 AVP Elder Predator Figurine 

Double Dragon (Felinfoel)

Name: Double Dragon
Label: "The National Ale of Wales"
Brewery: Felinfoel Brewery
ABV: 4.2%

Tasting notes: "This deep copper red ale has a tangy red fruit flavour with nutty, toffee overtones. Having won a gold medal at the International Brewers Exhibition, Double Dragon is truly a champion ale."  So cool that they named it after a video game too!

Game: The Xbox One X Scorpio Edition comes with a built in 1TB HDD. Now one terabyte isn't all that much and it's expected this will get filled up pretty quickly. Cue lots of people moaning about that fact.  At GamingAles we've worked tirelessly to discover a really neat little feature on the console. Under My Games & Apps you can click on a game or app and click something called "Delete".  This actually removes stuff from the console. Useful if you spot anything you don't really play anymore.  So until Microsoft work out a way where we can store infinite games to the console, we'll be using this feature in the meantime.

Sea Fury (Sharps)

Name: Sea Fury
Label: "Exceptional special ale"
Brewery: Sharp's
ABV: 5.0%

Tasting notes: "Sea Fury Special Ale takes its inspiration from the stormy Atlantic seas that crash into the rugged Cornish coast during the long, dark winter. This exceptional beer was first brewed in 1996 to satisfy demand from local fishermen for a stronger ale to enjoy after long and often perilous stints at sea."

Game: This week is Xbox One X week! So far we've installed Assassin's Creed Origins, Evil Within 2 and South Park The Fractured But Whole. Assassins's Creed Origins is the most played so far and we must say the 4K graphics look absolutely incredible. It's definitely the best looking game we've ever played. Like, EVER! And we've played a lot of games! We've been playing games since the 80's! We KNOW games! [yes ok I think they get it - Ed]

Current rating: 4000 out of 10

Special London Ale (Youngs)

Name: Special London Ale
Label: "Matured live in the bottle for that fresher taste. Can be enjoyed cloudy, but ideally pour slowly leaving the last few drops in the bottle with the yeast."
Brewery: Young's
ABV: 6.4%

Tasting notes: "Rich and malty with notes of candied fruit and a powerful spicy hop finish."

Game: Belated happy Xbox One X day! Our console arrived on the morn of release day - big thanks to Amazon from everyone at GamingAles Towers! Amazon came in for some stick for failing to deliver consoles on release day. Reports have been coming in that customers were furious. Lives have been ruined. They couldn't bear to look at their stupid old Xbox One or Xbox One S knowing that the Xbox One X was out there being played on by other customers.  Numbers of people affected are vague, but initial estimates indicate it's about six or seven. We will be keeping an eye on the situation so watch our twitter feed to keep track of the latest developments.

Amber (Banks)

Name: Amber
Label: "Exceptional Amber Bitter"
Brewery: Banks's
ABV: 3.8%

Tasting notes: "Crafted with the finest ingredients to deliver a deep gold amber beer with a clean finish and fruity overtones. The blend of fuggles and goldings - the classic twin hop masterpiece delivers a classic English beer."

Game: The game of the week has obviously been Assassin's Creed Origins, but we have also had time to wrap up The Evil Within 2 just in time for Halloween. And what a game it is too, complete with one of the grossest horrible looking end of game bosses ever [you big chicken - Ed]!  The game is so great we went straight into New Game+ so we can play through again with all of our unlocked weapons and abilities.

Rating: 9/10

IPA (Wadworth)

Name: IPA
Label: "Easy drinking and refreshing"
Brewery: Wadworth
ABV: 3.6%

Tasting notes: "A great balance of malt aroma & hoppiness on the palate. Wadworth IPA is the local session ale of choice favoured for its light refreshing nature."

Game: Blimey it's Eaglemoss's MEGA Predator Statue!  He's an impressive 34cm tall, amazing paintwork and detail. Only 500 worldwide, the one below being number 244 according to the certificate of authenticity. Here he's pictured next to the Eaglemoss 1/16 sized Predator just for comparison. After the photo was taken he ate the other predator so he could have the shelf to himself. That's how badass he is.

Rating: 10/10

MEGA Predator Statuette 34 cm (Predator 1987)