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Perhaps that's 'fake news', so I'll credit you with "good grief!" instead...

Been dodging this one since before Christmas...
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Flaked oats, lactose, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg... ye gods (to NOT quote Will), just give me the water, hops, malted barley and yeast!

Old Man from Long Man Brewery - lovely stuff, from one of the diminishing number of mini-casks in the 'cellar' (aka garden shed).
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The Larkin's excellent Porter, one of the full range of this small Kent brewery's five beers, seen and tasted together for the first time here: Orpington Liberal Club.

NB - This producer is almost...

1931Bedlam Amagansett in takeout form...

This is NOT a cheap political point by me or the brewery, but an auspicious or inauspicious (depending on your point of view) taster of the Rother Valley 'Exit'...

One of many Kent green hop beers at the Canterbury Food & Drink Festival, with halves of Canterbury Seriously Saison and McCanns Janet Street (porter) in hand.

Tracked down the excellent Larkins Porter in the Ragged Trousers, Tunbridge Wells - just the job!

Hop Back Hopfest in the village club, described in someone's blurb as "A festival of hops in a glass, with alcohol, nothing better for a Friday night" but I can't disagree with a word of that...

Update: Now with a gentle pint of the Greene King XX Mild (all 3.0% of it) in the tiny snug of the Free Press.

Memo to self: Come back to Cambridge when you've a bit more time and do the city...

A very nice pint on the thankfully-not-as-overly-seasonal-as-it-sounds Santa's Claws from the Colchester Brewery (a new one on me) in the Cambridge Blue.

Gadds Überhop, a real cask pilsner...

A suitably seasonal Bah Humbug!


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from Wychwood...

It does, however, have a rather vile pump clip when served on draught.

I'm not sure I've got this festive spirit thing right, as it's Wychwood Bah Humbug!.

Had a pint on draught in The Castle earlier in the day, but it was served so cold (and with a sparkler, which I can't imagine that Ringwood's brewer would have intended) it would be difficult to rate...

Given which side of the Medway it originates from, definitely Men of Kent...

It wasn't here, was it?

Harveys 'Knots of May', a very light mild at 3.0%, but not as devoid of taste as one might expect given the low ABV.