"Millennium ales from British breweries"

"Monty Python's Holy (Gr)ail, 4.7abv, from the Black Sheep Brewery. Peachy color. Earthy English hop aroma and palate; rich nutty, malt bakground; then sappy dryness in a quite bitter finish. Big flavours. Warming finish. This beer was brewed for the 30th anniversary of the TV show."

" In Oxfordshire, the Wychwood Brewery (5.0) has the aromatic, earthy, Old Father Time Millennium Ale with the spiciness of a hop variety called Bramling Cross. The back-label promises that "the hop bitterness will scythe through the malt" - and it does. I admire a beer sufficiently grown up to boast about its bitterness."

"Some beers for Halloween OCT 29, 2000: Hobgoblin: a medium-strong (5.5) ale, with suggestions of brown sugar in its flavours. From the Wychwood Brewery, of Witney, Oxfordshire."

" What would a beer taste like if it contained no hops at all? In Suffolk, the St Peter's brewery has in its distinctive green "gin" bottle a Millennium Ale of 7.0 per cent, spiced only with "secret botanicals". It is deliciously treacly and licorice-like."