Whitstable Oyster Stout was the 2nd of the Whitstable beers that Pete sent as part of Beer (but you already gathered that from the title) Just like the Raspberry Wheat this one came in a 330ml bottle with the same picture on, which as I said before I really liked, so I was pleased to see […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, real ale, Stout, WhitstableJust before Christmas I posted about the Winter warms, pale ales, pork pies and porters festival at The Captain Cook Inn, in Staithes, Emily offered to play chofur provided we were back for her to bring her horse in. For those of you who don’t know the Captain Cook Inn, It’s a cracking little pub […]
View Post Beer Festival, english ale, local aleI’ve just had the beer list through for the winter warmers, pale ales, pork pies and porters festival, I’ve already persuaded our lass to drive so I will most certainly be popping in for a bit, if only to try Adnams old ale and the Kelham Island beers along with a few pies. Anyway here […]
View Post beer and food, Beer Festival, Captain Cook Inn, portersWhitstable Raspberry Wheat Beer was another of the Beer Swap beers sent by Pete. I’ll be honest and until the beers arrived, I had not heard of Whitstable brewery, so as is usually the case with new things, I headed off to Google and ended up on the Whitstable brewery website, which told me they are […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Fruit Beer, Kent, wheat beer, WhitstableThis is something that’s been in the wings for a while and after a fair bit of discussion lately we (the 2 Marks and I) plumped for the 23rd Jan in Sheffield. The plan is to take a rather beery tour of the various pubs and drinking establishment’s in Sheffield, starting at the Sheffield Tap, […]
View Post beer blogger meet up, Beer bloggers, sheffield, tweet upLast week together with Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and Fletcher (from real ale reviews) we launched the Golden Pint Awards (not the new jazzy logo thanks to robsterowski) so I thought it was about time I filled in the categories my self, It’s taken me ages to decide on some of the categories […]
View Post american beer, beer blogger awards, english ale, Golden Pints, real aleLeviathan was the last of the trio of Hopdaemon beers that Pete sent as part of Beer Swap, I had enjoyed the other two (Skrimshander and Green Daemon Hellas) so to say I was looking forward to this was an understatement, the description on the bottle and on the Hopdaemon website sounded right up my […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Hopdaemon, Kent, kentish hopsThe year is almost over and there becomes an inevitable point in which we take a look over our shoulders and evaluate how the past 12 months has been, before looking forward to the next. As Beer Swap rolls on (there’s no hurry, just drink and be happy), Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and […]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsHop Daemon’s Green Daemon Helles was the 2nd beer I decided to sample from my beer swap package. Green Daemon Helles is a 5% ABV bottle conditioned pale beer, it had quite a lot to live up to after the Skrimshander i had with my midweek curry. It started off quite promising when it poured […]
View Post Beer Swap, Bottle conditioned, english ales, english lager, HopdaemonHopdaemon’s beers were something I had heard a little bit about, mainly through twitter and the various beer blog’s so when my proper beer swap beers arrived and I opened them up to find that my beer swapper, @petebrissenden brewer at Hopdaemon had included some of his beers along with some other local brews I was […]
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