This is the first a a new series called meet the publican where we grill a publican in the hope that we learn something new about them and their pub. This edition is Liz Aspden. What is the name of your pub and where is it? The Harlequin, Sheffield. We’re part of Sheffield’s (in)famous valley […]
View Post brew pubs, landlady, landlord, local pubs, Meet The Publican, sheffieldThere’s been a lot of talk recently (especially last night) about drinkability of beers and according to Dom from Marble it’s a hot topic between brewers at the moment. It seems to have different meanings depending on who you are listening to. Some say it’s a way justifying a boring beer, other say it’s a sign […]
View Post drinkable beers, IPA, session aleIt had been a while since I had Morrissey Fox‘s Blonde, mainly because I remember it being a bit a bit boring, but when I saw the Brunette I thought I’d give the Blonde another chance and do a side by side tasting. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Morrissey Fox, they started […]
View Post bitter ale, blonde ale, brunette, local ale, locale, Morrissey Fox, Yorkshire AleThis week our Meet the Brewer comes from hand’s on brewer at the fantastic Marble Brewery, Dominic Driscoll, whom I recently met on Twissup, he is a serious beer nut, great drinking buddy, dunlop purofort aficionado, brewer of fine ales, builder of awesome 8 feet tall snowmen and has a twisted sense of humour. What […]
View PostStu gave me this bottle of Smokin Oktoberfest way back when I visited him and the Crown Brewery for my brewday and it really has taken me this long to get round to writing about it (sorry Stu), Another apology must also go out for the picture, I’ve stolen it from Stu’s blog, mainly because […]
View Post Crown Brewery, oktoberfest, sheffield, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerIt’s been announced (a little bit early by all accounts) that the guys over at Brewdog have done it again, Created the world’s strongest beer and grabbed the headlines by calling it “Sink the Bismark” a reference to toppling the German beer that knocked Tactical Nuclear Penguin off the top spot. Now yet again i […]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, Strong beerThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Paul Halsey at Purity Brewing Co, (He’s not the brewer but he is the MD) We are quite big fans of Purity here at Beer Reviews, they don’t make many beers but the beers they do make are great. I also placed second in their My Dog is […]
View Post Green Beer, Meet The Brewer, Purity Brewing CoWilliams Brothers are one of the few breweries that do Twitter well, they interact, they answer questions and the listen to feedback, A while back I got chatting to them and they sent me some of the test batch of their Ginger Beer, when It arrived I was most surprised (and pleased) that they had […]
View Post real ale, red ale, red beer, scottish ale, scottish red ale, williams brothersI’ve recently gotten into Moor Beers in a big way, ever since having my first bottle of Somerland Gold and JJJ IPA towards the end of 2009 I’ve been wanting to try Moor of there beers (see what I did there??) So when I received a tip off that Beer Merchants was getting some in […]
View Post Beer merchants, english ale, Kent, moor beer, moor brewing co, real aleOrkney Blast was another one of the beers that Lew sent me in exchange for some chilli chutney and it was possibly the one I was looking forward to most after all The beer boy (Zak Avery) him self seemed to rate it when he tried it a while back The first thing that catches […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney, real ale, scottish ale