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Best beers
2:51pm Monday 11th February 2008
Dark winter months call for quality premium beer with guts, which is exactly what the London brewers Fullers produce. You will find these beers at both Waitrose and Sainsbury.
Fullers Golden Pride ABV 8.5 Price £2.10 Arguably the grand cru of Fullers' bottled beers, this full bodied deep amber brew, with its rich malty aromas, is a drink not to be rushed. It is a beer to drink slowly in front of a roaring fire as you savour each sip.
Fullers London Pride ABV 4.7 Price £1.69 This is an astonishingly complex amber-coloured beer offers hints of caramel and butterscotch, perfectly balanced with the zesty flavour that comes from Target, Challenger and Northdown varieties of hops that are used to make it.
Fullers London Porter ABV 5.4 Price £1.79 This award-winning porter, brewed from a blend of brown, crystal and chocolate malts, is a fine winter drink. It is also the perfect beer to add to winter stews and casseroles.
Editor's choice
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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