Dead or Alive is brewed by Roosters as part of their experimental arm, “Outlaw”. I am quite a big fan of Roosters as we see their beers around here quite a lot, nearly always on cask…in fact until I went to Beer Ritz in Leeds I hadn’t seen Roosters beer in bottles. When Zak explained […]
View Post beer ritz, IPA, local ale, locale, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beer, zak averyLakeland Blonde was one of the beers I was very kindly sent by Bitter End Brewing Co and My Brewery Tap, it was the second of their beers I tried after the Lakeland IPA which I thought was rather tasty. Lakeland Blonde weighs in a little bit lighter than the Lakeland IPA at 4.2%, It is […]
View Post bitter end, blonde ale, lakeland ales, locale, my brewery tapScapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn’t a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in brewing it but the […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney ale, real ale, scottish aleTally Ho is a limited edition Barley wine style beer, brewed at Adnams since 1880. It’s traditionally a Christmas beer which is brewed in October in limited quantities. I was very kindly sent my bottle of Tally Ho by Sean at Adnams who offered to send everyone involved in Beer Swap a bottle to try. […]
View Post Adnams, barley wine, Beer Swap, real ale, strong ale, winter aleBitter End Brewing Co weren’t a brewery I had heard of until I got a bottle in my My Brewery Tap case and then was very kindly sent some of their other beers to sample. I was quite surprised that I’d not heard of them as we spend a lot of time in the Lake District, […]
View Post bottled ale, English IPA, IPA, lake district, lakeland ales, my brewery tap, real aleIt had been a while since I had Morrissey Fox‘s Blonde, mainly because I remember it being a bit a bit boring, but when I saw the Brunette I thought I’d give the Blonde another chance and do a side by side tasting. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Morrissey Fox, they started […]
View Post bitter ale, blonde ale, brunette, local ale, locale, Morrissey Fox, Yorkshire AleStu gave me this bottle of Smokin Oktoberfest way back when I visited him and the Crown Brewery for my brewday and it really has taken me this long to get round to writing about it (sorry Stu), Another apology must also go out for the picture, I’ve stolen it from Stu’s blog, mainly because […]
View Post Crown Brewery, oktoberfest, sheffield, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerWilliams Brothers are one of the few breweries that do Twitter well, they interact, they answer questions and the listen to feedback, A while back I got chatting to them and they sent me some of the test batch of their Ginger Beer, when It arrived I was most surprised (and pleased) that they had […]
View Post real ale, red ale, red beer, scottish ale, scottish red ale, williams brothersI’ve recently gotten into Moor Beers in a big way, ever since having my first bottle of Somerland Gold and JJJ IPA towards the end of 2009 I’ve been wanting to try Moor of there beers (see what I did there??) So when I received a tip off that Beer Merchants was getting some in […]
View Post Beer merchants, english ale, Kent, moor beer, moor brewing co, real aleOrkney Blast was another one of the beers that Lew sent me in exchange for some chilli chutney and it was possibly the one I was looking forward to most after all The beer boy (Zak Avery) him self seemed to rate it when he tried it a while back The first thing that catches […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney, real ale, scottish ale