As part of the second Open It I’ve lined up a few beers I’ve been keeping for one reason or another, the first two I decided to open were Mikkeller 1000 IBU and the Mikkeller Barrel Aged 1000 IBU. I’d been keeping these two to try side by side and to be honest I was […]
View Post barrel aged beer, bottled beer, danish beer, DIPA, Double IPA, IIPA, IPAJust a quick reminder that Open It! is this weekend, it’s time to open a bottle of something special that you’ve been saving then let everyone know about it on twitter (using the #openit tag) or on Facebook and of course if you have a blog the write about it on there, If not feel […]
View Post bottled beer, open it, special beerSaturday night saw a trip up to the much anticipated White Swan and Captain Cook Beer festival (not to be confused with the Captain Cook pub beer festival which was on at the same time in Staithes). We arrived at the White Swan in Stokesley in the early evening after a rather eventful taxi ride, […]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, captain cook, cask ale, hand pulled aleGrab your diaries and put a big red circle around the Royal Wedding weekend (29 April – 2 May) and inside that circle scribble the words ‘Open It!’ because it’s time to go into the dusty depths of the beer cellar and open something good just for the sake and fun of opening something good. […]
View Post bottled beer, open it, special beerThe White Swan in Stokesley home of the Captain Cook Brewery is having a Beer and Cheese festival over the Easter weekend, It starts on the 22nd and runs to the 25th. The White Swan is a fantastic little pub and Captain Cook make some very tasty beers, there will be some great beers on […]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, cask beer, local ale, localeLast Friday night a group of us went to the Black Sheep Beer and Food Night at the brewery in Masham, 3 of us were beer bloggers the other 3 were our partners, some of who enjoy the odd beer and some who don’t drink beer at all. We arrived in Masham a little early, […]
View Post beer and food, Beer and food pairing, black sheep, cask ale, cask beer, Yorkshire AleIt’s that time of year again where the Captain Cook Inn at Staithes holds it’s St George beer festival, if you’re in the area it’s well worth checking out, there are usually some great beers, sausages and pies. This years festival will kick off at 11 am on Thursday 21st April 2011 and run till […]
View Post beer festival captain cook inn, captain cook, cask ale, cask beerAt 7:30pm it’s your chance to meet people from BrewDog including Josie Ludford their Northern Territory Sales & Marketing Manager. There’ll be talk, tasters and snacks at half time. If you’ve not been to the Tyne for a while you might not know that, alongside their Gold Tankard and two other rotating Wylam beers they […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, kegged beer, northern beer, the tyneIt already seems like ages ago since I hopped on the short train journey to York for the first Twissup of 2011. I arrived way too early so went for a quick wander around the lovely historic streets and had a look a the market in the square, only just resisting the urge to buy […]
View Post cask beer, keg beer, Twissup, york, york beer, york beers, york pubcrawl, york twissup