This weeks Meet the Brewer is Mike from Okells, I first encountered Okells a while back when I tried one of their beers in a local pub, soon after I noticed that our local cheap shop had cases of their Dr Okells IPA very very cheap so I bought a load and it was delicious, […]
View Post IPA, Meet The BrewerI recently had an email from a marketing company asking me if I would like a case of beer for my self and a case of beer for one of you lucky readers. All it involved was posting a link to the beer’s website and embedding a teaser video for their latest campaign….Great I thought, […]
View Post advertisng, Shepherd Neame, sink the bismarck, spitfireI couple of weeks ago Fergus from Adnams sent me a couple of rather special bottles of beer. Until now i’ve not been able to talk about one of them so now the shackles are off I can spill the beans. The first of the two beers was Adnams Extra, this once award winning beer […]
View Post Adnams, beer samples, cask ale, cask ale week, fergus fitzgerald, real aleAfter last week’s break in our regular Meet The Brewer feature we return with a bang, This week it’s the turn of Stuart Howe from, Sharp’s Brewery. I was really pleased when Stuart agreed to take part in the feature as I’ve been following his blog for a while now and he brews some of […]
View Post cornish ale, english ale, Meet The Brewer, sharp's brewer, stuart howeThis morning on my way out of the door i bumped into postman pat in his litte red van, he handed me a parcel that I wasn’t expecting, I put it in the footwell of my car and set off to work, quite excited as to what might be in it. On arrival at work […]
View Post Beer Swap, bristol ale, english ale, local ale, localeIt’s time to do my bit for trying to encourage girls/women/ladies (which ever you prefer) to drink more Ale. There has been a lot said over the last week or so from both sides of big blue sea and from commercial and non commercial views, you can read some of it here, here and here, […]
View Post beer and girls, beer for girls, girls beerTo commemorate Saint Georges Day and All Things English, The Captain Cook Inn,Staithes, North Yorkshire will be holding it’s 7th annual English Heritage Beer,Banger and Pork Pie Festival on Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday25th of April. The bar will be open from 11am till midnight each day and ENTRY IS FREE. Some […]
View Post Beer Festival, Captain Cook Inn, staithesRecenlty the lovely @ginsoak and @the_brew_co took over the Harlequin Pub in Sheffield, it’s certainly been keeping them busy and they have had their fair share of teething troubles (you can read about them here) but despite the lack of sleep and sit down meals they are battling on and have decided to put on […]
View Post Beer Festival, ginsoak, sheffield, sheffield beer, The Brew Co, The Brew Company, the harlequinWe’ve now got the plan for the day in Burton and we owe a million thank yous to Kristy for sorting it out for us. It’s a different day to Sheffield but I think it looks absolutely brilliant and at the end we can just carry on drinking wherever we want to or those who […]
View Post Beer bloggers, bloggers, burton upon trent, TwissupI recently ordered a couple of cases of Unpronounceable IPA from My Brewery Tap, Stu being the gent he is, kindly slipped in a couple of unlabelled bottles of his new Wheat Beer for me to try. Before I drank and photographed them a little bit of Blue Peter magic was needed, I managed to […]
View Post crown brewer stu, Crown Brewery, german beer, Sheffield beers, weissbier, wheat beer, white beer