Boondoggle (Ringwood)

Name: Boondoggle
Label: "Blonde Ale - A deliciously fruity blonde beer"
Brewery: Ringwood Brewery
ABV: 5.0%

Rating: "Down here in the New Forest we call carefree lazy days "Boondoggle days"". This makes me want to go and live in the New Forest with lots of beer. And an xbox of course. And a 50 inch telly...

Game: Finished L.A. Noire. I <3 L.A. Noire. Definitely getting DLC for this game and going to replay it through again starting from tomorrow. This is definitely one of this console-generations defining moments. For some reason I've also got loads of other games on the go at the moment. L.A. Noire, Dragon Age 2, Mortal Kombat, Fallout: New Vegas, Bayonetta and several Kinect games! Busy, busy...

Old Thumper (Ringwood)

Name: Old Thumper
Label: "A beast of a beer - Award winning beer from the heart of the New Forest"
Brewery: Ringwood Brewery
ABV: 5.6%

Rating: It's got an angry looking wild boar on the label and it won CAMRA Beer of Britain 1988 - admittedly this was a long time ago, but it's still good, ok?

Game: Christ almighty, I'm suddenly really sick of sandbox action adventure games with millions of side missions and billions of mini-objectives. On my to do list was liberate Nazi occupied Paris, liberate Mars from the EDF (Earth Defense Force) and then destroy the Shadow Lord and get my daughter back whilst riding a tamed wild boar (strange coincidence considering the name of the ale I just bin sippin'). Obviously these tasks weren't in the same game. That would just be silly. No, it was Saboteur, Red Faction: Guerilla and Nier.  First two tasks are now ticked. Red Faction was actually pretty damn good considering it was only a fiver. 8/10