I’ve wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog‘s Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge’s Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven’t actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long enough to compare them side by side. So with the arrival of my latest 52 week beer club I finally had both beers in […]
View Post Blind beer tasting, BrewDog, Crown Brewery, IPA, jaipur, punk, Thornbridge, uipa, unpronouncable IPAThis is one of those beers you that if you read the various blogs and tweets then you will no doubt have seen, well you are in for yet more about it as it is just too good a beer to leave off any self respecting beer blog. Jaipur is brewed buy those very clever […]
View Post english ale, English IPA, IPA, Thornbridge
Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The Brewery is called Springhead. It comes for the name of the bend in the river Trent near where the original Brewery (the smallest brewery in Britain at the time) was founded. What is your brewery capacity? Our current capacity is 50 brewer’s barrels (BB) (that’s […]
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A couple of days ago a bottle of Cobra and a bottle of Thornbridge Jaipur arrived in the post and went straight in the fridge and then last night a freshly baked Dominos Tandoori Hot pizza arrived just before 19:00. The pizza was swiftly shared and consumed with the beers, spot on it was too, […]
View Post beer and food, Cobra, jaipur, Thornbridge
What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? We are the Revolutions Brewing Company. The name is a reference to the revolutions of vinyl record-playing turntables. Before CDs and digital downloads music used to revolve at 33 and 45 rpm — and for those with longer memories, 78 rpm. Until the high […]
View Post cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire breweryIt already seems like ages ago since I hopped on the short train journey to York for the first Twissup of 2011. I arrived way too early so went for a quick wander around the lovely historic streets and had a look a the market in the square, only just resisting the urge to buy […]
View Post cask beer, keg beer, Twissup, york, york beer, york beers, york pubcrawl, york twissupThere’s been a lot of talk about Brewdog’s Punk IPA lately, first of all they released a version called Punk X, I think it was an experiment to see what people thought of Punk IPA with a few tweeks, It was released in cask and bottle (possibly keg too) and not being able to get […]
View Post BrewDog, british beer, Canned beer, IPA, punk, scottish beerLast night @davelozman and his mrs came for tea, It’s always a great night and we usually sup some fantastic beer so I took a bit of a risk and tried to incorporate some beer into the first course. I’ve made beer batter before but only ever for big chunks of fish and I usually […]
View Post beer and food, beer batter, beer recipe, beer recipes, BrewDog, IPAI said last week that I was going to try and blog about something different on a Friday for a bit, I’ve got a couple of posts lined up, well this week is something I’ve not done before and something that Scoop has been trying to get me to take part in for a while, […]
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