Cotswold Wheat Beer was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, (which also included Hook Norton Hooky Gold and Hook Norton Haymaker) and was from a brewery I hadn’t heard of before so I went straight to their website. According to their site: Modelled on the famous Weisse […]
View Post Beer Swap, Cotswold Brewing Co, english ales, wheat beerHook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, […]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesHooky Norton Hooky Gold was one of the 4 Beer Swap test parcel beers that were sent to me by @realalereviews, Hook Norton was a brewery that I was familiar with but I had never had Hooky Gold so was looking forward to trying it. Hooky Gold is a pale and refreshing ale from Hook […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, english ales, Hook NortonThis was meant to be similar to my Thornbridge Jaipur post, in that I wanted to compare cask Halcyon to bottled Halcyon, I was all set for the battle but due to Beer Festival Fail, I didn’t get chance to try the cask Halcyon. As it happens Beer merchants recently reduced some bottles of Halcyon […]
View Post english ale, green hopped, hoppy beer, IPA, real ale, Strong beerThe guys over at Brewdog have done it again, just when you think they might be starting to get things a bit wrong they go and confuse you. I can’t make my mind up on the latest news about their new beer Tactical Nuclear Penguin, it is the worlds strongest beer at a whopping 32% […]
View Post BrewDog, Stout, strong aleI’d been trying to track this beer down for a while, but the problem was the only places I could find it were places that sold it in cases of 12 and as I wasn’t sure if I would like it I had always put off buying it. Then the very kind guys over at […]
View Post Adnams, eco friendly beer, english ale, Green Beer, IPATimothy Taylor’s Landlord is possibly one of most well known beers from Yorkshire and has been around since the year dot, It also happens to be one of my favourite beers and one of those beers that I can’t decide if I prefer it on cask or in bottles. Last night we went to Vista […]
View Post english ales, local ales, Timothy Taylor, Yorkshire beerBrewsters Bundle was in one of the gift packs that Hogs Back Kindly sent me, I have already reviewed A over T and T.E.A and like so many other beers it has a story behind it… Brewsters Bundle was brewed to celebrate the birth of one of the brewer’s daughters. It weighs in at a […]
View Post barley wine, english ale, Hogs Back Brewery, real ale, strong aleThose lovely folk over at R & R sent me some info about the new Innis & Gunn Christmas gift packs and offering me a sample, I had a quick look at the attached PDF and as soon as I saw the words “New Innis & Gunn IPA”, I hit the reply button and very […]
View Post Innis and Gunn, IPA, oak aged beer, Oak Cask, Rum caskThis is one of those beers you that if you read the various blogs and tweets then you will no doubt have seen, well you are in for yet more about it as it is just too good a beer to leave off any self respecting beer blog. Jaipur is brewed buy those very clever […]
View Post english ale, English IPA, IPA, Thornbridge