Dust off the fancy bottles, it’s time to Open It! It’s a reason and an excuse to open those bottles you’ve been saving. Beers which you really want to drink but also really want to hold onto until a special occasion. The thing is, not all beer gets better if you leave it and the […]
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Where did your brewery name come from? Harbour Brewing Company. Rhys and I met in a pub in Padstow and decided we would open a brewery. The first thing we did was celebrate by drinking a few beers and deciding a name. It seemed a good idea to name ourselves after the place the idea […]
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The Highland Brewing Company is one of my favourite breweries north of the border, Rob and his son produce some cracking ales which is no surprise really when Rob has been brewing for over 28 years and brewed in some great breweries across the UK. Based on the beautiful island of Orkney they are also known as […]
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A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a […]
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This week’s meet the brewer comes from a brewery close to my heart as their Workie Ticket was one of the first beers I ever had at a beer festival, It’s also one that’s recently undergone a bit of a transformation and is going from strength to strength Where did your brewery name come from? […]
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I realise we are now well and truly into 2012 and I’ve not done posted much, I’ve got many excuses so I won’t list them all but the two main reasons have been trying to sort out this new design and secondly planning my impending wedding, both of which I’m quite excited about. As you […]
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In case you missed the round up, both Rick and The Beer Monkey have done some excellent round ups of this years Golden Pint awards which has saved me a massive job so is much appreciated guys!! I was going to copy and paste the results from both into here but you really should go […]
View PostI’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 […]
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The Captain Cook Inn are holding their annual Chrismas beer and pie festival, details are below Tuesday 27th – Friday 30th December Bar open 11am till midnight each day. The following ales will be served at The Cooks 4th Winter Warmers Fest. Okells, Red 4.7% Slaters, Blitzen 4.0% Idle, Santa 4.2% Copper Dragon, Christmas Classic […]
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I first met Pete from the Brew Company at Twissup in Sheffield, where he not only introduced me to his better half Liz who runs the Harlequinn pub in Sheffield but also to one of my now favourite tipples, Angostura 1919 rum. The Brew Company started brewing in 2007 after Pete left Cadbury’s and have […]
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