Way back in September I was sent these two bottles of Westmalle beer, One Tripel and one Dubbel, I decided the best way to tackle them would be one after the other. For those of you who haven’t heard of Westmalle it is brewed in a Trappist Abbey in Belgium, from what I have heard it’s only […]
View Post abbey beers, Belgian Beer, double, dubbel, tripel, WestmalleGadds are a brewery I tried a few times during 2009 so when I opened by Beer Swap parcel and found a bottle of the black pearl I was over the moon, especially as it wasn’t one I’d had before and I had really enjoyed Gadds No.3, Dogbolter and Ancestors (reviews coming soon). Black Pearl […]
View Post blogger beer swap, english ale, Gadds, real aleWhitstable Oyster Stout was the 2nd of the Whitstable beers that Pete sent as part of Beer (but you already gathered that from the title) Just like the Raspberry Wheat this one came in a 330ml bottle with the same picture on, which as I said before I really liked, so I was pleased to see […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, real ale, Stout, WhitstableWhitstable Raspberry Wheat Beer was another of the Beer Swap beers sent by Pete. I’ll be honest and until the beers arrived, I had not heard of Whitstable brewery, so as is usually the case with new things, I headed off to Google and ended up on the Whitstable brewery website, which told me they are […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Fruit Beer, Kent, wheat beer, WhitstableLeviathan was the last of the trio of Hopdaemon beers that Pete sent as part of Beer Swap, I had enjoyed the other two (Skrimshander and Green Daemon Hellas) so to say I was looking forward to this was an understatement, the description on the bottle and on the Hopdaemon website sounded right up my […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Hopdaemon, Kent, kentish hopsHop Daemon’s Green Daemon Helles was the 2nd beer I decided to sample from my beer swap package. Green Daemon Helles is a 5% ABV bottle conditioned pale beer, it had quite a lot to live up to after the Skrimshander i had with my midweek curry. It started off quite promising when it poured […]
View Post Beer Swap, Bottle conditioned, english ales, english lager, HopdaemonHopdaemon’s beers were something I had heard a little bit about, mainly through twitter and the various beer blog’s so when my proper beer swap beers arrived and I opened them up to find that my beer swapper, @petebrissenden brewer at Hopdaemon had included some of his beers along with some other local brews I was […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, English IPA, Hopdaemon, IPAI first came across Doctor Okells IPA in the summer, when I bought some when in the Lake District, after trying it when we got home I wished I had bought more, then a few months ago when I was looking in the cheapo shop’s in town I saw that home bargains were selling it […]
View Post english ale, IPA, Okells, real aleFor those of you who haven’t heard of it (or looked at our places to buy beer page) My brewery tap is an online beer shop that sells beer directly from breweries, so when you place an order your beer comes straight from the people that made it, this in theory gives you access to […]
View Post 52 week beer club, english ales, my brewery tap, real aleThis was the last of the Beer Swap test parcel beers that Mark from @realalereviews sent me. I was all ready to post the story on the beer and the brewery as it was another place (apart from the civil war that is) I hadn’t heard of so when I looked it up on google, […]
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