I’ve just found this in my draft posts (along with one about GBBF) from earlier in the year, not sure why I didn’t post it (could have been the poor quality photos I took) but thought I might as well do it now. July 4th saw the first Thornbridge beer festival…dubbed Peakender, Set in the […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd, named after our founder Timothy Taylor himself in 1858. What is your brewery capacity? That’s a hard one to answer really as all breweries can be manipulated to achieve volumes out with your plants normal capabilities. Even micros these […]
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I’ve left it until the last minute to do these, mainly because I couldn’t make my mind up. Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer Hawkshead NZ Pale Ale – Truly delicious and stupidly drinkable. Second place goes to Summer Wine Nettle and Ginger Saison and Third goes to Hill Island ThaIPA. Best UK Bottled or […]
View Post Beer Awards, Golden PintsIn anticipation of Twissup tomorrow here’s a meet the brewer with Mark from Tyne Bank Brewery, which we will be going for a look around. What is your brewery name and where did it come from? Tyne Bank Brewery. The name was chosen due the brewery being located on the banks of the Tyne just […]
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It seems wrong that I’ve not written about Magic Rock beers on here before, especially as I’ve supped an awful lot of them from bottle, cask and even keg. So I thought it was about time I broke the duck, jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a little bit about them. Based in Huddersfield, Magic […]
View Post beer and cheese, beer and food, Beer and food pairingWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? William Worthington’s Brewery, Burton on Trent. Worthington’s started brewing in Burton in 1744. What is your brewery capacity? Brew length = 22.5 barrels. Current annual maximum = 4500 What is different about your brewery? It’s built in the National Brewery Centre. New vessesls, traditional […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, burton, burton upon trent, cask ale, Meet The BrewerI’ve just realised that it’s now nearly a month since the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) at Earls Court and then realised that I’d not written about it, party because I’ve been so busy since getting back but mainly because It was such a whirlwind of a day that I no matter what I write […]
View Post Beer Festival, bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, foreign beer, GBBFIt’s that time of year where we dust of our twadges (no not that…this), prepare our survival kits and prepare your drinking boots, Twissup is here. All you need to do is complete the form below and we will announce the results in a couple of weeks. If anyone has suggestions of places to visit or beery […]
View Post blog, bloggers, blogging, Twissup, twitterIt’s not often, or at all you see beers from Epic in the UK so when I spotted a couple of their beers on the list for the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) this year I got more than a little excited. As soon as I got through the door at GBBF (more on the […]
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