It’s that time of week again where we harras a brewer to fill in our questionnaire for Meet The Brewer, This week the email headed way up across the border to Scotland and to the Harvistoun Brewery, where it was filled in by non other than Head Brewer Stuart Cail. Harviestoun are one of my […]
View Post harviestoun, Meet The Brewer, real ale, scottish aleLakeland Blonde was one of the beers I was very kindly sent by Bitter End Brewing Co and My Brewery Tap, it was the second of their beers I tried after the Lakeland IPA which I thought was rather tasty. Lakeland Blonde weighs in a little bit lighter than the Lakeland IPA at 4.2%, It is […]
View Post bitter end, blonde ale, lakeland ales, locale, my brewery tapNext up in our Meet The Publican series we have Glyn Roberts from The Rake, Borough Market, London. I’ve not yet had the pleasure of going to the rake but I have heard many a good thing said about it (not just by Glyn ;op ) What sort of community/clientel does your pub serve? All […]
View Post ale house, bar, london, Meet The PublicanScapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn’t a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in brewing it but the […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney ale, real ale, scottish aleIt’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing, Meet the Brewer – this week it is the turn of Dan Baxter from Abbeydale in Sheffield, I last drank one of their beers on Twissup and it was very good indeed. So over to Dan to fill you in.. What is your brewery capacity? We […]
View Post local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, Sheffield beers, TwissupTally Ho is a limited edition Barley wine style beer, brewed at Adnams since 1880. It’s traditionally a Christmas beer which is brewed in October in limited quantities. I was very kindly sent my bottle of Tally Ho by Sean at Adnams who offered to send everyone involved in Beer Swap a bottle to try. […]
View Post Adnams, barley wine, Beer Swap, real ale, strong ale, winter aleI recently found out about this beer festival via twitter and Teesside Hospice kindly sent me the press release as well as the beer list so I thought I would show our support for a worthy cause by posting it on here! I hope if you are in the local area you will attend one […]
View Post Beer Festival, local ale, locale, middlesbrough, teesside hospice, Yorkshire AleIt’s been a very long time since I’ve visited the Woolpack Inn, deep in the Lake District, In fact I’m not even sure Dave and Ann were there when I last went. But after previously meeting them both a few times we decided that we had to visit the pub. We set off from a […]
View Post beer tasting, cumbria, lake district, localale, woolpack dave, woolpack innThis week’s Meet The Brewer, comes from north of the border where James Watt from BrewDog has kindly taken time out from his world domination plans and fishing to complete our little feature. Like many of the things BrewDog do this is likely to divide opinion so if you have any thoughts please leave them […]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, james watt, Meet The Brewer, scottish ale, Strong beerBitter End Brewing Co weren’t a brewery I had heard of until I got a bottle in my My Brewery Tap case and then was very kindly sent some of their other beers to sample. I was quite surprised that I’d not heard of them as we spend a lot of time in the Lake District, […]
View Post bottled ale, English IPA, IPA, lake district, lakeland ales, my brewery tap, real ale