This was one of the beers kindly sent over by @hogsbackbrewery. It was the only one out of the selection they sent that I had previously tried so I thought i would share it at the Beer bloggers day out. The bottle is gives a very upmarket feel, especially with the cool gold CAMRA cap […]
View Post A over T, english ales, Hogs Back BrewerySunday saw the 2nd Beer Blog authors “meet up”. The sun was shining and the beers were calling us, so off we headed to the first, and only stop, the Star in Middlesbrough, Recently refurbished and with a good reputations for well kept real ales and tasty food. Dan was waiting outside with a pint […]
View Post Eisbock, GCB, Good cheer beer, Ossett Brewing, Ossett Pale Gold, Pale Gold, The StarThe guys over at Hogs Back brewery kindly sent me over a selection of their ales to try, the reviews will be on here very soon, in the meantime here is a bit about them from their website. The Hogs Back Brewery is an independent brewery based in Tongham, Surrey. Their flagship real ale, ‘TEA’ (Traditional English Ale), has […]
View Post english ales, Hogsback breweryThis was another of the beers in my mixed case from @crownbrewerstu on twitter. I remember reading the description for this ale as I was putting it onto a page of it’s own on their website, It read: This traditional golden IPA (7% ABV) is full flavoured packed with bitterness from the 5kg of Bramlin […]
View Post Crown Brewery, IPAI recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffiedand in return I ended up with a few of his ales, including something that excited me quite a lot – Ring of fire, a 10.3% Chilli beer. In case you didn’t know I’m also a bit of a chilli addict and run […]
View Post Chilli Beer, Crown Brewery, Ring of fireFirstly sorry for this being so long, I will try to review the ales individually in the future but… I was going to a family BBQ and I wanted some ales that wouldn’t break the bank but that would still deliver on flavour so I popped to morrisons to see what they had on offer. […]
View Post £1 ales, brakspear bitter, cusquena, holts humdinger, Humdinger, marston's burton bitter, morrisons, piddle in the hole, supermarketI quite like the Wells Bombardier range of beers, standard Bombardier was one of the first real ales i remember drinking and Bombardier Satanic Mills is a cracking dark ale, So when i saw Burning Gold on the shelf in the supermarket i thought i better give it a go and complete my Wells Bombardier […]
View Post Bombardier, Burning Gold, WellsI recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffied, he was having problems with his website so i offered to lend a hand, In return he was kind enough to send me a mixed case of some of his ales (each of which i will review soon) The Crown brewery was started in […]
View Post Chilli Beer, Crown Brewery, Ring of fire, Sheffield Brewery, UPA, Wheat StoutI’ve been saving this one for a special occasion as it’s not cheap and i had heard it was pretty special, well the special occasion came when England won the Ashes, they don’t come much more special than that. As much as i love lip smacking and tongue tingling hoppy beers i love dark rich […]
View Post Bracia, Stout, ThornbridgeI’ve been a fan of Flying Dog beers for a while but they are a bit of a pain to get hold of, luckily Tesco have now started to stock two of them so they are easy to get hold of (thanks to eurodog and bierenco, if u can’t find it get it from beermerchants) […]
View Post american beer, classic pale ale, Flying dog