With a little help from Roger Protz, author of '300 Beers to Try Before You Die', The Independent have named their prestigious 10 best winter beers - perfect to wash down that mince pie!

Protz describes Bateman's Rosey Nosey as: "Warming, rich, malty beer with a good, solid underpinning of spicy hops and the typical ripe fruit signature of all Bateman's ales that come from a family-owned brewery in Lincolnshire." But what are his other words of ale loving wisdom?