This Weekends Beer Mk. IV - Spring's Here!

Don't worry too much about it, nothing to write home about to be frank, just damn good for an 8 for £7 offer! Mine must be super fresh too as I live less than a mile from Brains Brewery.

 

*rubs hands* in short I love it!
Tomos Watkin in Swansea have a solid range - not a single beer I didn't like so far.
Pen-Lon from West Wales have some good stuff too but also a few duds, Choc stout and Gimmers Mischief are my favs.
Artisan in Cardiff are very interesting, doing mainly German styles with a few nice seasonals (had a nice Baltic Espresso Porter the other week)
Bullmastiff in Cardiff seem good, though i've only had their high strength sonofabitch which was very good.
Brains as you say are very underwhelming, their regular beers on tap/cask are very bland. I especially dislike SA/SA Gold.
Rhymney as you say are very solid, nothing brilliant but nothing under average either, they have very good cask seasonals.
Vale of Glamorgan are ok, not had much from them though unfortunately.
Untapped in Cardiff are new too and a bit hit and miss. They do a lovely stout, a decent pale ale and a frankly awful (to my tastes at least) winter beer.
Otley are very good, had some lovely offerings recently.
Celt brewing in Caerphilly looks good (very fancy bottles) but i'm only just getting round to trying their stuff.
Newmans also from Caerphilly are very solid, though they sell their beers in 330ml bottle for some reason, even stuff like their bitter.

 

Ah they're from North Wales so I don't get much of their stuff here, just Welsh Pride from Sainsbury's, which was oh so very underwhelming. Mostly cask-wise my local has Rhymney, Otley, VoG, Wye Valley, Brains.

 

Yes their stuff is alot better on cask, it's a shame my local Brains pub does it on some kind of nitro-tap/on tap/whatever they usually serve guinness with to make it all creamy and disgusting.

 

i really regret not reviewing the Wild Swan, Versa and Tzara when I had them >,<