It 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 twissupA couple of weeks ago I won some delicious goodies from Olives Et Al on Twitter, as I won them using my Beer Reviews account I thought I’d try and pair what they sent me with beer so here are the results and a little bit of info about Olives Et Al. Olives Et Al […]
View Post bar snacks, beer and food, Beer and food pairing, beer snacks, food pairing, IPA, pilsner, soutThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Ian Bradford, or Brad as he’s know from Lymestone Brewery in Staffordshire. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Lymestone Brewery:- an amalgamation of the names of the towns of Newcastle under Lyme and Stone, both in Staffordshire What is your brewery capacity? 6 […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, micro brewery, real ale, staffordshireI’ve been cooking with beer for a while now and have bought plenty of cook books that either use beer in the recipes or suggest beers to go with the recipes in the books. I’ve even made up some of my own recipes like the Punk IPA Prawns. I know other people must do it […]
View PostA couple of days ago I spotted Richard Fox’s Beer and Food book going cheap so decided to order it and see what it was like. I’ve only had a quick flick through so there will be a proper review of it soon, but in the meantime I decided to make his beer mashed potatoes […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipes, bottled beer, cooking with beerThere’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 beerAs well as Twissup and the Otley brewery night at the White Horse, this weekend sees the start of the Welsh beer festival at The Rake in London. It Kicks off at 12 noon on the Sunday and there will be a Meet the Brewer event at 2pm with Nick & Matt Otley & If […]
View Post cask beer, cheese and beer, kegged beer, london, london beer, Meet The Brewer, the rake, welsh beer, welsh cheeseFor my bit of Friday Fun I thought I would post a few of my favourite beer labels, in no particular order, most of these were taken on my mobile because I’m too lazy to dig out the ones from my camera. There’s also a few that I couldn’t find like Brewdog Zephyr and some […]
View Post beer branding, beer labelling, beer labels, bottled beer, sexy labelsThis week was one of those weeks I was trying not to drink on a work night, unfortunately I only lasted until Wednesday night and surprisingly it wasn’t the canned Brewdog Punk IPA that had arrived earlier in the week that tempted me into breaking my abstinence, it was a a bottle from the case […]
View Post badger beer, bottled ale, bottled beer, clear bottles, Seasonal ale