Today sees the launch of the most comprehensive search for the best British beer of 2012. Now in its second year, the competition runs until the end of November 2012, with the winners announced in early December 2012. Other beer competitions in the UK require entry by the brewers. Not all beers are entered for […]
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Sharp’s Brewery recently launched Cornish Pilsner, in collaboration with the Eden Project, for me It had a lot to live up to as I was a huge fan of Monsieur Rock that they brewed a while back and is now no longer available. For the Pilsner Head brewer Stuart Howe used whole Saaz hops and […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Old Worthy Brewing Co. I used to work in the scotch whisky industry and the old boys who worked at our distilleries had cracking stories of the whisky men from another era who mischievously helped themselves to the distillery ‘wash’; a form of ‘beer’ […]
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On Sunday 26th August Bacchus (42-48 High Bridge Street, Newcastle) are holding a Tap Takover by Tiny Rebel Brewery. Beers will include: Urban IPA Fubar Billabong Chocoholic Hadouken The Full Nelson Dirty Stop out There’s a hashtag of #tinrebelintoon on twitter and you can find out more by following both Bachhus and Tiny Rebel on […]
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St Austell are a brewery I’ve admired for ages, but fell head over heels for when we were on honeymoon in Cornwall back in April. As you can imagine they have a lot of pubs in Cornwall and just about everywhere sells some of their beer. The St Austell pubs we visited were great, most of them […]
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On Monday 30/07/2012 The Plimsoll Line will be holding a meet the brewer session with Saltaire brewery from 7pm. Saltaire beers available will be: Empress IPA (abv 5.0%) Tykes Gold (abv 4.4%) Raspberry Blonde (abv 4.0%) Elderflower Blonde (abv 4.0%) Five Rise Pale (abv 3.9%) In addition to these we will also have available Wall’s […]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called […]
View Post Beer Festival, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, northern beerBlaydon RFC is holding it’s yearly Beer and Music Festival starting on Friday 10th August 2012. Feedback from the two previous events has led to a complete makeover on the event this year: The venue will be a large Marquee with the benefits of having the event under one roof. There will be a number of […]
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Welcome to Yorkshire recently ran a competition to find Yorkshire’s Favourite Pub, I remember seeing it a while back and voting for a local favourite of mine but then completely forgot about it until I saw the winner announced on the news while they were talking about the Great Yorkshire Show. I’ll admit to being […]
View Post Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beer, yorkshire pubThis just landed in my inbox so thought I’d share it as it sound like a blooming good festival and if I wasn’t going to the Hawkshed Beer Festival on Thursday I’d have popped up to Newcastle this weekend. We kick off on Friday at 3pm when our 3 bars will open. We have […]
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