By now if you are taking part in Beer Swap Part Deux, you should have had the email informing you of who you are sending beers too, if you haven’t then please check your spam folder, if it isn’t in there then please email beerswapuk@googlemail.com and let us know. Assuming you have received the email […]
View Post Beer bloggers, Beer Swap, beer swapping, Beerswap, bloggersI’ve wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog‘s Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge’s Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven’t actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long enough to compare them side by side. So with the arrival of my latest 52 week beer club I finally had both beers in […]
View Post Blind beer tasting, BrewDog, Crown Brewery, IPA, jaipur, punk, Thornbridge, uipa, unpronouncable IPAThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from Steve at Durham Brewery, they are just up the road from me and they are one of my favourite breweries, they make some fanastic strong ales along with some pretty tasty session ales too. What is your brewery capacity? 10 barrel plant What is different about your brewery? […]
View Post Durham Brewery, english ale, local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, real aleI’m not entirely sure where I got Naylor’s Ginger Beer from but I found it in the beer cupboard when I was looking for something a little different, so decided to crack it open. Naylor’s Ginger Beer is part of their Brewers Choice range, this is a range of seasonal and one off beers that […]
View Post english ale, ginger ale, ginger beer, NaylorsSo we’ve (or more accurately Mark, although I’ve been busy too ;o) ) let this slip quietly on by with no action. The original closing date for Beer Swap was 28th March but we will extend that until Friday 9th (we will push the whole thing back a few weeks). We will then arrange who […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, TwissupFriday night we went out for a meal with a group of friends, it’s been planned for months now as it’s hard getting everyone together, not to mention getting a table at the pub/restaurant we wanted to go to. So it was really great when we turned up at The Board Inn in Lealholme and […]
View Post beer and food, Beer Festival, north yorkshire, Timothy TaylorEvery month everyone waits on tenterhooks, waiting for the Wikio Rankings for Wine & Beer (or Beer & Wine as I like to think of them). They remind me a little of the Celebrity Laps board on Top Gear, some say they don’t care, some say they don’t make sense, all we know is everyone […]
View Post Beer bloggers, blogosphere, wikio rankingsI write this as I am sat here with a rather large bulbous glass that has a rather small amount of what is currently the world’s strongest “beer”, Sink The Bismarck, from Brewdog. My brother bought the bottle a few weeks ago and it arrived a couple of days ago, he offered to bring some […]
View Post 41%, BrewDog, IPA, scottish ale, Strong beer, world's strongest beerThis week’s meet the brewer comes from way north of the border, Wil Wood from Fyne Ales took time out from brewing 5 times a week to complete our little questionnaire. Fyne Ales make some fine ales (see what I did there??) I’m quite partial to their Avalanche. So over to Wil to fill you […]
View Post Fyne Ales, real ale, scottish aleIf you haven’t already heard, this week is National Cask Ale Week which aims to get people celebrating the great British tradition of cask ale. Cask ale has been around for years and years and is currently having a bit of a resurgence, mainly due to the huge array of fantastic breweries, excentric brewers and […]
View Post cask ale, cask ale week, english ale, local ale, locale