The previous years Golden Pint Awards have been a great success so here we go again for the 4th Year. Feel free to do a runner-up and a winner for each category (or some honourable mentions) and link to blog posts if you’ve written about winners before. For the open category you can choose whatever […]
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Leigh from the Good Stuff asked me if I wanted to take part in his food and beer Christmas day post, I agreed and had intended to cook each of the dishes as a bit of a trial run but haven’t had the time so I’m just going to mention what I’m planning on having. […]
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On Saturday after a day of drinking a whole load of different styles of beer, including IPA, Stout, Saison, Barley Wine and even a Cucumber beer, I was lured in by the smell of Chrismas wafting over the bar at Pivni inYork, the smell was mulled cider at £3.50 for a stemmed glass it wasn’t […]
View Post cider, dry cider, mulled cider, recipes
Every now and then something unexpectedly arrives in, more often than not it’s a bill of some kind, fortuatnely this time it was something a lot more exciting…..an 8% beer from Badger, yes that’s an 8% beer from Badger, it’s not every day they release one of those. The name comes from a local legend […]
View Post bottled beer, Dorset ale, Limited edition, strong ale, Strong beer
When Matt from Truefitt brewing asked for people to go give him a hand brewing a special double india pale ale for his 50th brew there was no way I was going to miss it, even if I had drank far to much gin the night before. We arrived at the brewery just before 8am […]
View Post Brew Day, cask ale, IIPA, IPA, middlesbrough
I’ve tried Adnams Ghost Ship on a few different occasions and really enjoyed but never thought it was an outstanding beer, that was until I cracked open the canned version. The first thing that hit me was the aroma, It smelled super fresh and packed full of hops, load of pithy lime and lemon, it […]
View Post Adnams, Canned beer, pale ale
I’ll be honest there’s not many places round here to buy decent bottled beer, whether it be local or from further a field. There is the odd shop like Whistle Stop Wines in Saltburn and of course the supermarkets have the odd beer, even B&M gets the odd bottle of decent ale in now and […]
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A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipe, beer recipes, bottled beer, cask ale, cornish beer, recipeWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Axholme Brewing Company. It is named after where I live, the Isle of Axholme (an inland river island in North Lincolnshire) What is your brewery capacity? 2.5 brewers barrels, or 410L if you prefer. What is different about your brewery? Our small size allows […]
View Post cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer
I’ve brewed lots of homebrew kits in the past, you know the ones that come with two tins of extract, you tip it in a bucket, stick some water in and a bit of yeast then leave for a few days and hey presto you have beer, they were always ok but never out standing. […]
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