Recently I received an email asking if I’d like to try the new Eden project fathers day gift set which comprised of a lovely little jute bag, 2 bottles of Eden Ale and a huge kilner jar of Eden Ale and Walnut chutney, as it happened we were in Cornwall and planning to call in at the Eden Project […]
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Just before St Patricks Day this bottle arrived wrapped in a Jiffy bag, quite how it survived the post I’m not entirely sure but it did and a few days later it ended up in my glass. As far as I’m aware it’s the first time the Innis & Gunn have brewed a stout and […]
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A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a […]
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It seems wrong that I’ve not written about Magic Rock beers on here before, especially as I’ve supped an awful lot of them from bottle, cask and even keg. So I thought it was about time I broke the duck, jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a little bit about them. Based in Huddersfield, Magic […]
View Post beer and cheese, beer and food, Beer and food pairingJust like with the excellent Salopian Oracle, I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the beers I’ve been sent lately, the latest of which is from Innis & Gunn. Innis & Gunn are one of those breweries that divides opinion, some love their beers, others can’t stand them, for me it’s probably the […]
View PostI’m just getting round to catching up on a few beers I’ve been sent over the last few months, Salopian very kindly sent me a couple of bottles that I drank a while back and just like Darwin’s Origin they gave me a real surprise. According to the blurb, The creation of Oracle came about because […]
View Post bottled beerA couple of weeks ago HardknottDave asked me if i wanted to test his soon to be launched online shop, happy to help a mate and with the chance to order a pre release version of his newest bottled beer, I logged on and got stuck in. Not long after my paypal receipt had arrived […]
View Post Bottle conditioned beer, bottled beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, hardknott, real aleThe kind people at Wychwood sent me a lovely little package of blue cheese, dark chocolate and a bottle of Ginger Beard, all in a cool little wicker basket that her indoors has now commandeered to keep toiletries in. While the chocolate and cheese was a delicious and a nice touch, I was most interested […]
View Post bottled beer, free beer, ginger beerI first heard about Coniston IPA when Ian mentioned it in his Meet the Brewer and from his tweets on twitter I knew I had to try some. So on a camping trip a couple of weeks ago we decided to have a beery night in Coniston town I popped into the Black Bull for […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, lake district, lakeland ales, lakeland beerIt’s not often, or at all you see beers from Epic in the UK so when I spotted a couple of their beers on the list for the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) this year I got more than a little excited. As soon as I got through the door at GBBF (more on the […]
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