Last night I had a bottle of Bath Ales' Barnsey (their dark beer) - good, and I'd have it again - and a bottle of Bad King John from the
Ridgeway brewery in South Stoke, Oxfordshire. Via the Guildford Sainsbury's. It's a 6% dark bitter which is astonishingly anaemic - it tastes as if they've forgotten to include any hops at all.
Tonight I met up with my American chum from Munich, and we found a pint of this stuff:
(Photo from earlier in the thread, and ignore the pallid apparition in the background - colour has been gained since then). We then went in search of Sardinian craft beer, but the restaurant was all out, so we had to make do with grape juice.