The 2009 Golden Pint Awards were a success so we have decided we’d have some fun with them again this year. 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 blogger awards, blogger awards, Golden PintsThe Queen Victoria in Gosforth is having a first birthay beer bash to celebrate Justin’s first year as manager. It runs from the 17th – 19th December and the beers all spell out Firsty B’day Bash The beers are: Fuller’s ESB 5.5% Idle Sod 4.2% RCH Old Slug Porter 4.5% Spectrum Captain Scarlet 4.5% Timothy […]
View PostOpen It night one was a success, I just opened the one bottle, the rather stunning Brewdog Abstrakt AB:04, Night two had a lot to live up to. We went up to @davelozman ‘s where he’d pulled a few special bottles from his stash and cooked a huge chunk of lamb stuffed with haggis, It […]
View Post aged beer, bottled beer, expensive beer, great beer, open it, whisky beerThis was probably Brewdog beer I was looking forward to the release of with most anticipation, those that know me or follow me on twitter will know that I’m just as obsessed with great coffee (usually from the excellent Hasbean) and everything chilli related (see my other blog) So given that AB:04 contained Hasbean coffee, […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, BrewDog, scottish beer, Strong beerIt’s almost time to Open It! This weekend, 3-5 December, is when we can get those special bottles and open them just for the sake of opening them. Mark and I have also managed to arrange for lots of people to be snowed in so you have an even better excuse to drink a beer […]
View Post Beer bloggers, bottled ale, bottled beer, open it, social media, special bottlesDust off those special bottles because Open It! is coming very soon… Friday 3 December to Sunday 5 December, get the good bottles out of the cupboard and get them open. Don’t hold back thinking that a worthy special occasion will come along soon, that you might get a new job next week, a promotion […]
View Post beer blog, Beer bloggers, blog, bloggers, blogging, Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, open itLast week I received an email asking if I’d like to go and sample some of the ales available as part of the the NovEMBER Ale festival at my local Ember Inns. Not one to pass up on an excuse to visit the pub I hot footed it along the road to our local, Turners […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, locale, pub, redcar beerAs well as the Whitby Beer festival this week also sees another local Beer festival at Redcar, It’s not been particularly well advertised hence this rather late post but here are the details for those of you that are close by. It starts on Thursday and runs through to Saturday, There is entertainment on each […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, redcar, yorkshireI had the following info through about Whitby Beer Festival, It’s a cracking time of year to visit Whitby if you’re not local and with over 100 beers on there’s bound to be something worth trying. Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th November 2010 Bar open 11am-11pm each day At The Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, whitbyTwissup does Manchester and Huddersfield has been and gone, and what a Twissup it was, probably the biggest and best yet. The day didn’t start out too well for me as one of my trains was delayed so I missed my connecting train, fortunately it wasn’t long until the next one and it gave me […]
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