For the Morning After The Turkey Coma crowd:

Now you've all had a chance to unwrap some fresh plastic crack, why not put it on the tabletop the very first chance you get in the new year? Two spots have come up for Mercia Madness 4, in Worcester on January 3rd-4th. Tickets are £25 a pop. If you want in, let me know. #AoS #ageofsigmar

So technically the #AdventCalendar finished yesterday, but I got a bonus one for today from Borough Market It's just a stout. This isn't a bad thing, as stouts are tasty too, but the toffee and maple notes the can touts simply aren't there. So skip this and get a Guinness. #beer #craftbeer

Merry Christmas, bots,buddies, and blokes that battered my butt on the tabletops of 2025.

#AdventCalendar Day 24 A MOTHER FUCKING IPA?? FUCKING REALLY? What do I need to do to get away from this shit? *takes a sip* So no IPA hop disaster zone, since the strongest flavour is sugary syrup and vague esoteric fruit. Hipster bait. #beer #craftbeer #advent

Back at Stately Jennings Manor for Christmas.

#AdventCalendar Day 23 Apparently this was a traditional-enough beer that it had an extremely dodgy cork! Thus putting it in an at-risk segment for vinegar flavour. And there is a bit of that, but it's alright. A nice change from more smoothie sours. #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 22 I fear the fatigue I mentioned yesterday is rooted in every beer in the calendar being completely described by its label. This is exactly a beer that tastes like an orange Crunchie. It's tasty, and I'd have four in an evening, but it's not surprising #beer #craftbeer #advent

Been doing some in-person Christmas shopping, and I think I found something from the Book of Revelations in HMV.

#AdventCalendar Day 21 I'm apparently suffering Sour Beer Fatigue, which is really bad when I have a sour beer advent calendar. This fruit smoothie sour ale... was a fruit smoothie. #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 20 I saw "blackcurrant" as an ingredient on this label, turned straight to my wife, and before opening it said "this will taste like a Snakebite". I sometimes wish I was right less often. Still pleasant, but a bit overdone. #beer #craftbeer #advent

Game 3 was an inevitable round of being shot off the table by Kharadron, but the dice and the atrocious collections Andy/Andrew attention span made this a delightfully chaotic hand. Andrew ended up winning Best Sport, and that's entirely right. #ageofsigmar #AoS

Game 2 much better, no time for writeup, Game 3 starting! #ageofsigmar #AoS

Merry Christmas to the inevitable bot army upvoting my loss! While I was outplayed overall, my dice absolutely didn't help. #ageofsigmar #AoS

#AdventCalendar Day 19 It's just a glass of mango juice. There isn't really a way to be coy about it; it has the colour, flavour, and consistency of a glass of mango juice. #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 18 Having had some sad personal news today (lol vaguebook), I either needed an exemplary pint, or something vile I could hate on. And this Stella looking/smelling thing... was neither. Not the worst "rustic style" I've had, but not brilliant. Oh well. #beer #craftbeer #advent

Fun as it'd be to share my Steam Wrapped results, the fact it seems fixated on the crappy idle game I was fixated on for about six weeks at the start of the year doesn't really make it a celebration so much as a reprimand...

#AdventCalendar Day 17 After yesterday's... controversial pick (no food poisoning!), it's nice to have one that's only a bit wacky. Basically just a chocolate cherry milkshake, which is tasty and interesting without being silly with it. Well worth a go! #beer #craftbeer #advent

The Andy review of today's battlescroll: I've got enough of a points drop on my Ironguts to be able to replace my nonsense unit of Yhettes with a useful unit of Gnoblars. ...but apparently Stockholm Syndrome has set in, as those Yhettes were an interesting counterpart to my movement shenanigans!

#AdventCalendar Day 16 #beer #craftbeer #advent 🎶 Now this is a story all about how, Food poisoning I'll have a day from now, I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you what the hell is going on with this beer! 🎶 ctd. in thread.

#AdventCalendar Day 15 Any beer describing itself as a pastry beer comes with preconceptions of a cloying sweetness... and this isn't quite that, for better or worse. Not bad, but needed to be either sweeter or tarter. Or both? #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 14 I've lamented that one beer this calendar was basically just a cider, but this really IS just a cider, tasting very similar to a particularly dry cider I had in France in 2004. Albeit with some unpleasant vinegar notes. Traditional styles fail again! #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 13 Tania had a bad experience with a "rhubarb and custard" cocktail at the DSM IV gig the other week, so I thought this'd be a contentious one. Apparently not! Quite a tasty one, altho a bit heavy on the coconut. #beer #craftbeer #advent

I wonder if the upvote legion will emerge in the same numbers they did for the unpainted version of bad boy, now that he's had some colour slapped on. Please enjoy my cack-handed attempt at OSL on the weapon, I did what I could. #ageofsigmar #AoS #miniaturepainting

#AdventCalendar Day 12 I still say that every dark berry sour rolls the dice on just tasting like a pint of snakebite, and sadly Arty Bird Beer rolled a snakebite snake-eyes, and while being delicious to my palette, is indistinguishable from the student union regular. #beer #craftbeer #advent

Managed to land a reserve ticket for the War In The Mortal Realms Christmas Special... one more chance to get thrashed by the finest players in the country! #ageofsigmar #aos

NEW YEAR DATES NOW LIVE! I have just released the first quarters events on Eventbrite. PH 28 RTT January 18th PH29 RTT February 15th PH Open 5 March 14/15th

#AdventCalendar Day 11 On the nose, this one's just pineapple juice. But to taste, it's a pineapple-flavoured sour beer, that has some passion fruit notes if you remember there's passion fruit in it. Could've been sweeter in my sugar-addled view, but overall a good one! #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 10 Beers with lime flavouring have been somewhat spoiled for me by the prevalence of Desperados in my formative years, because that's my go-to association here. But it's still a tasty one, and the slight salt note works quite well. Fairly good! #beer #craftbeer #advent

Instead of sorting my new Gorgers for January doubles, or the Bad Nek Banditz for every other month, or my house, or my job... we're playing #GuessThatManeater! But since regulars to this BlueSky account already know I was being sent Bull Centaur bits, it's not really a challenging one... #AoS

#AdventCalendar Day 9 So yeah, at this point I think it's safe to say that any beer specifically touting itself as a smoothie sour is... a smoothie. It's a peach smoothie, so my wife can't have it. ...got nothing else at this point. How's your advent? #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 8 So far, this is the most accurate beer in the calendar - it really is like someone fermented some cheap cola syrup for a slushie machine. And that is... really not good. I might not finish this one, and I've finished pints of almost-literal vinegar. #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 7 Nobody in the family Jennings knows what a gentian root tastes like, so everyone who tried this focussed on the bitterness and the orangeness, to varying amounts of acclaim. A contentious one, but ultimately an approval for me! #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 6 I'm in no way averse to thick sours. I'm annoyed at sours that don't develop a head until you've wandered off to find your wife, and that head spills all over your dinner. This is just a mango smoothie. If that works for you, this is a perfect pint. #beer #craftbeer #advent

#AdventCalendar Day 5 In before midnight if I type quick! Speaking of snakebite-like beers, this looks the part. But tastes tart like vinegar, not like a sour. Not necessarily in a bad way, but just not what I'm looking for. #beer #craftbeer #advent

Might be about to see The DSM IV in an episode of Phoenix Nights...

#AdventCalendar Day 5... is coming either tomorrow or at midnight, as I'm going to see The DSM IV in concert literally now. Write up and ALT text when I do it properly. For now, spoilers for the visually non-impaired...

The way I'm basing my Bad Nek Rocket Knights is by sticking a flying base to a 75mm oval base. Tried that just now, and when I pressed the round all the way down, the superglue produced this delicate fern pattern underneath the round.

In terms of more mainstream wraps... I know I shouldn't be on Spotify in this day and age; I'm working on it. @cheapshow.bsky.social @sequelisers.bsky.social @rathergood.bsky.social @ashens.bsky.social @threetwoaos.bsky.social

Does anyone have any experience with the Fields of Slaughter tournaments in Birmingham? Much as I'd like to do one of their doubles for next year... I once booked a ticket for one, then needed to drop immediately, and they blanked me when I requested a refund with 6 months notice #AoS #shitstirring

#AdventCalendar Day 4 Dark berry sours have a narrow line to walk between being luxuriantly rich and sweet, and just tasting like a pint of Snakebite in the student union. This one comes perilously close to Snakebite, but has enough going on to pull it back. Lovely stuff! #beer #craftbeer #advent

Let's make Pete's dreams come true, and turn #WarhammerWrapped into a thing! Events: 10 (was aiming for 12) New Maneaters: 2 Ogres, 21 Gnoblars, 5 Ogroids Highlight: Tracksuit GT: scored a 3-2 and 2nd Coolest Army Lowlight: No 1st Coolest Army; 0-5 at PubHammer Open 3 (damn those dice)

#AdventCalendar Day 3 To make this work, look at the picture, or read the ALT text. See or read what it looks like... ...then know it ALSO TASTES LIKE A CIDER. THIS IS JUST A CAN OF CIDER. Very very tasty though, absolutely worth a go. Just not really a beer. #beer #craftbeer #advent

As I work out the approach to opsec on my new Coolest Army Project, I can at least share the first rank-and-file guy... a "Blood Knight" champion for Da Bad Nek Banditz. Planning to run them as a Crimson Keep army, because they work with my smooth-brain Destro tactics of "go that way". #AoS

#AdventCalendar Day 2! Ah yes, the first appearance of a beer made with... more traditional methods. Which infallibly means it has some vinegary notes, which this does. For being brewed with actual cherries, the cherries aren't very pronounced. Beats an IPA, I guess? #beer #craftbeer #advent

I forgot to mention that Christmas season officially started about 24 hours ago! youtu.be/_TCvt9gH3so?...

#AdventCalendar Day 1! So to my palette, "brewed with grape + fluff" reads as "this is a grape soda float". I'm not a big grape soda guy, but I found it tasty, it has a interesting texture, and overall enjoyed it. Since I'm never going to Texas, I'll never have it again! #beer #craftbeer #advent

Sadly, I fear the Maneater Legion has finished its 2025 tournament season; unless I schlep it to Wycombe, to Worcester, or to Ipswich with a conscript for doubles, there just aren't any viable tournaments left this year. Fortunately, I'm immediately switching to beer blogging now advent is on us! 😂

Where all my usual bitz suppliers have failed, my opponent from Game 3 is coming through; I'm getting his leftover Bull Centaur sprues to make this dream a reality!

Finished the weekend with a good solid thrashing from some vampires, which reassured me about the efficacy of a Crimson Keep army in the new year. Ended the weekend placed 19/26, and bereft of any trophies, but a good time was had by all. I may well return to Milton Keynes... #AoS