This week’s meet the brewer comes from the depths of lovely Yorkshire and a brewery who’s beers I’ve been drinking for as long as I can remember. What is your brewery capacity? 420 UK Barrels a week What is different about your brewery? We are able to brew both traditional English ales and Continental style […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, copper dragon, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerJust before Christmas the legendary gent that is Stuart Howe from Sharp’s (you may know him from the Hugh and Oz raise the bar program that was on the BBC or as the fella who made beer with offal) sent me a bottle of a beer that in his own words he described as SUBLIME […]
View Post bottled beer, cornish beer, lager, orval, saaz, sharp'sWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? M & A : We are the Revolutions Brewing Company, which derives its name from a music theme. Revolutions in this instance refer to the revolutions made by turntables. Our beers take this theme further by only being brewed to three strengths : 3.3%, […]
View Post Meet The Brewer, Revolutions brewing companyI just heard about another exciting event running this month, It’s at the excellent Free Trade Inn on the banks of the Tyne in Newcastle. It runs from 27th to the 30th January On Sunday evening they have some live music with a few local Blues and Jazz ‘The Eleven’ and the ‘Cup of tea […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask beer, cider, draught beer, Newcastle beer, newcastle pubs, pub festivalI’ve just been told about a rather exciting night coming up at the Plimsoll Line in Redcar Tony, the head brewer at Saltaire Brewery will be holding a Meet the Brewer night, where not only can you ask Tony loads of really difficult questions you can sample 5 (possibly 6) of their fine ales, including. […]
View Post brewer, cask ale, Meet The Brewer, saltaire brewery, Yorkshire beer, yorkshire breweryThis weeks Meet the Brewer comes from Dawn over at Norwich Bear Brewing Co. Where did your brewery name come from? We come from, live in and love Norwich (husband Kev is also a NCFC season ticket holder) and the ‘Bear’ comes from the way we pronounce ‘beer’ in this part of the world! Plus, […]
View Post brewery, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, micro brewery, norwich bear brewing co, norwich beerMarble Brewery are one of my favourite UK breweries, they brew some really top draw beer and I’m yet to have one of their beers that I don’t like. I’ve met a few of the guys from the brewery both at twissup and they always seem really knowledgeable and up for a laugh. Marble Lagonda […]
View Post bottled beer, engish ale, IPA, manchester beer, marbleVoting has closed for the February Twissup and we’re going to… York! Despite a last minute surge from Brighton (taking the last five votes), York is where we’ll be going with 26 of the 69 votes (Brighton picked up 21 votes, Newcastle 15, Bristol 4 and Derby a surprisingly low 3). Mark and I will […]
View Post pub crawl, Twissup, york, york beer, york breweryUnsure what to do during the day on new year’s eve and with the other half at work myself and Dave managed to swing some cheap train tickets to York so I decided to dig out the map I made for 2009’s trip with Mark from Real Ale Reviews add a couple of new pubs […]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, cask beer, IPA, keg beer, pub crawl, train beer, york, york beer, york pubsHere we go, the first Twissup of 2011 will take place on Saturday 26th February. It’s our regular drink-a-thon around a new place with beer bloggers, tweeters, brewers, pub managers and much more. We’ve done Sheffield, Burton and Manchester/Huddersfield, now the next one is up to everyone to decide on the location. Mark and I […]
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