This Easter Sunday Bacchus in Newcastle is the place to be as it’s their Easter Beer festival, not only that it’s the presentation of ‘CAMRA Tyneside Pub Of The Year 2012’. The festival starts at 12 noon and runs until 22:30 with the CAMRA presentation likely to be soon after opening. Bacchus will be offering […]
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Last weekend’s Open It saw lots of great bottles opened, shared and enjoyed throughout the country (or world??), here’s what I got through.
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Just a quick reminder that the first Open It! of 2012 is this weekend. It’s a reason and an excuse to open those bottles you’ve been saving. Beers which you really want to drink but also really want to hold onto until a special occasion. The thing is, not all beer gets better if you […]
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Just a quick heads up that The Free Trade Inn in Newcastle is hosting the launch of what sounds like a fantastic beer, Tyne Bank Piccolo Black from 19:00 on Monday 6th Feb 2012. Piccolo Black, is a collaboration between local Barista, Piccolo Coffee and Tyne Bank Brewery. It is a black pale ale brewed […]
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In case you missed the round up, both Rick and The Beer Monkey have done some excellent round ups of this years Golden Pint awards which has saved me a massive job so is much appreciated guys!! I was going to copy and paste the results from both into here but you really should go […]
View PostI’ve left it until the last minute to do these, mainly because I couldn’t make my mind up. Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer Hawkshead NZ Pale Ale – Truly delicious and stupidly drinkable. Second place goes to Summer Wine Nettle and Ginger Saison and Third goes to Hill Island ThaIPA. Best UK Bottled or […]
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The Captain Cook Inn are holding their annual Chrismas beer and pie festival, details are below Tuesday 27th – Friday 30th December Bar open 11am till midnight each day. The following ales will be served at The Cooks 4th Winter Warmers Fest. Okells, Red 4.7% Slaters, Blitzen 4.0% Idle, Santa 4.2% Copper Dragon, Christmas Classic […]
View Post beer and pies, Beer Festival, beer festival captain cook inn, Captain Cook Inn, cask ale, pork piesHere’s @kempicus (from Buxton Brewer) Golden Pints for 2011 Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer: Marble Dobber Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer: Fullers 1845, close runner up Marble/Fullers Old Manchester Best Overseas Draught Beer: Bitburger Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: Yeastie Boys Rex Attitude, equal second Brewaucracy Pumpkin Image Inc and Epic […]
View PostThe 2009 and 2010 Golden Pint awards we’re a laugh and seemed to go down well so here’s this years list. It couldn’t be simpler, just fill in your answers to the categories below. You can do this in the comments on someone’s blog post, write them in your own blog or email them to […]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsI was going to write a huge post about what happened when Twissup hit Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, but to be honest, there’s been lots of great write-ups which you can read here, here, here, here , here and here (If I’ve missed your link stick it in the comments at the bottom) So […]
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