We only get the Lagunitas IPA over here - I'd describe it as a nice pint, but it's more of a nice bit of a pint as you American's insist on using tiddly little bottles
Shepherd Neame produce some decent beer but I'm not keen on their big sellers - MasterBrew and Spitfire - very hoppy but without any complexity. They do a good Autumn beer called Late Red, We had another big brewery - George Rigden's that became part of the Fremlin's group, but then Whitbread bought them out and very quickly closed the brewery (Whitbread did this on a national scale - buying up other companies for a few years then deciding to pull out of brewing).