Flying Dog are one of those breweries you hear a lot about but don’t often see their beers, unless you live near a good bottle shop, or in the case of Doggie Style and Gonzo a rather large Tesco. I fell in love with Doggie Style (or Classic Pale Ale as Tesco call it) after […]
View Post american beer, american IPA, beerritz, Belgian IPA, Twissup, zak averyThis post has taken me a while to publish, not because I’ve been busy (even though I have), not because I’ve had other beer reviews to post (which I have) but due to the fact I couldn’t think of a fancy title, which I thought the beer deserved. I was explaining the dilemma to a […]
View Post american IPA, Beer merchants, best beer in the world, California, IPA, US beerI came across Askrigg Ale while looking for beers for Beer Swap, the bright orange label was really distinctive on the rather dull looking shelves at Lewis and Coopers in Northallerton. As it turns out all of the labels and bottles brewed by the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Co follow the same style, which I have […]
View Post local ale, locale, real ale, Yorkshire beerAcorn is a brewery that’s beer is available on cask quite regularly round these parts as they are based just down the road in Barnsley, having said that we don’t see them in bottles very much, if at all, mainly because we are lacking any sort of decent bottle shop. I came across Gorlovka, or […]
View Post Acorn, Barnsley, english ale, english ales, Imperial Stout, Stout, Yorkshire AleI found Mikkeller beers through a certain purveyor of fine ales, I’ve had quite a few different ones now and have built up a little bit of a backlog as far as reviewing them goes, So I thought i would start with one of my favourite ones and go from there. According to the Mikkeller […]
View PostSamuel Berry’s Pale Ale was one of Crown Brewery’s beers that I hadn’t had until I visited the Hillsborough Hotel to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. I was given a taster while I was there and also bought a bottle home with me, it was meant to be drank on the train but I […]
View Post Crown Brewery, english ale, local ale, pale ale, real ale, the hillsboroughHighland Brewing Co are a micro brewery based on Orkney, I got chatting to Lew on twitter and we arranged a little swap – some of his (and his dad’s) beer for some of my winter chilli chutney. Before I knew it 4 bottles of rather tasty looking ale had landed on my doorstep waiting […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney, real ale, scottish aleWilliams Brothers recently saw me mention this post about Frank’s Ginger Ale and dropped me a line, offering to send me some of their new Ginger Beer, which was part of a test batch they had brewed and were looking for feedback on. I was so excited when the beer arrived I cracked one open […]
View Post ginger beer, real ale, scottish ale, williams brothersShepherd Neame 1698 was the last of my Beer Swap Beers, I know all of the reviews were supposed to have been finished before Christmas but as I received 7 beers plus the 4 test parcel beers, not to mention my trying not to drink during the week (sometimes failing miserably…a bit like tonight really), […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, Bottle conditioned, english ale, real aleI can hear you all thinking, “A lager? on Beer Reviews??” It’s not the first time – I reviewed Brewdog’s 77 Lager a while back, and when this one was sent to me I thought it would be rude not go give it a go. With Brooklyn Lager, the word “Lager” is a bit misleading […]
View Post american ale, lager, pale ale