When I spotted St Hellier Ginger Beer Shandy for 89p a bottle in Bargain Madness not for a second did I think I would be back a couple of days later buying a whole case of the stuff. I’ve never really been a fan of St Hellier drinks I’ve tried over the year, so much […]
View Post bottled beer, ginger beer, shandy, St hellierAfter an excellent day in Chester the plans for the next couple of days included more walking that beer but that’s not to say it didn’t include a fair bit of beer. You can read about the walking here or have a nose at my photos here, so I thought I’d do a quick round […]
View Post beer and walking, cask ale, cask beer, cumbrian beer, welsh beerHot on the heels of Magic Rocks Brewing’s first launch night they will be taking over the pumps at another of their favourite beer venues, North Bar, Leeds on Thursday (not Thurdsay as the poster says) the 30th of June. The draught beer line up will be their first three cask beers: Curious 3.9% “Original […]
View PostA couple of weeks ago I received a press release along with a bottle of both Melville’s Strawberry Beer and their Raspberry Beer. Melville’s is a new arm of Innis & Gunn and is the brainchild of Douglal Sharp who wanted to show off what he called some of the best fruit in the world and create […]
View Post Fruit Beer, Melville's beer, raspberry beer, Strawberry BeerA couple of weeks ago we’d arranged to go and visit some friends in Wales, where they live isn’t too far from Chester so we hopped on the bus (not bust ;op ) to go for a look around. I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of pubs and beer so arrived with an […]
View Post bottled ale, cask ale, locale, pub crawl, pubs, real ale, tasting trayA while back I was very kindly sent a selection of Woodforde’s Norfolk Ales. These included Wherry, Sundew, Nog, Nelsons Revenge, Head Cracker and Admirals Reserve I’d not had any Woodforde’s for a long time, my first was Wherry at a beer festival many moons ago. I always remember my first batch of homebrew being […]
View Post bottled beer, home brew, norfolk ales, real aleNot content with giving away 2 lots of beer and a beer tickers DVD lately, We’ve teamed up with Slurp Beers to offer 1 lucky reader the chance to win a special mixed case of beer. It’s simple, just answer the questions below and hit submit (sorry in advance if it doesn’t work on mobile […]
View Post competition, free beerThis was sumbitted for the cooking with beer competition by Gregg, it sounds and looks delicious! Thanks to Gregg for taking part, you can find a bit more about him here Serves 2 hungry people 4 Lean Pork Steaks or 2 Pork chops 2 Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 tsp Fennel seeds 1 tsp Course Seasalt […]
View PostLast week, the guys over at Innis and Gunn sent me this bottle of Triple Mature Oak Aged Innis and Gunn. It’s been specially released for Fathers Day on June 19th and is on sale now in Tesco for a very reasonable £2.50 per bottle. It comes in its own distinctive bright blue box, which […]
View Post bottled beer, free beer, oak aged beerA couple of saturday’s ago my self and @davelozman hopped on the train to Newcastle, to grab some lunch then hit a few pubs, well that was the plan anyway. We livened up the train journey by sharing a bottle of Raison d etre from Dog fish head and then a bottle of chaos theory […]
View Post cask ale, local ale, locale, newcastle, northern beer, Twissup