When Beermerchants announced they were getting a pallet load of Mikkeller beers I found my self rather excited (some would say too excited), I’d not had any beer from Mikkeller since visiting the Great British Beer Festival a few months back and he is one of my favourite if not my favourite brewer. For those […]
View Post bottled beer, danish beer, IPA, lager, MikkellerAn 8% beer from Cumbria – yup you read that right, I know it’s quite a rarity for a high ABV beer to come out of Cumbria with only a few brave people like Hardknott Dave, Strigers Beer and the odd special from Keswick brewing anything other than ~4% “sesison beer”. Croglin Vampire from Cumbrian […]
View Post bottled beer, cumbrian beer, doppelbockThe Kernel Brewery were a brewery I first found out about via twitter and Phil from Beermerchants. I’ve since become hooked on their delicious range of beers, so much so that I can’t belive I’ve not written about them before now. The Simco IPA as the name suggests is a single hopped IPA using the […]
View Post british beer, english beer, IPA, london beerWhilst doing some shopping in Morrisons on Sunday I wandered down the beer aisle to see if they had got any new or interesting beers in, unfortunately this usually ends in disappointment as they rarely have anything new or exciting, the last one I remember was Sierra Nevada Pale Ale which they started stocking a […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, hoppy beer, morrisons, red beer, scottish beer, scottish red ale, Supermarket beerMy Antonia was something I had started to hear whispers about on twitter and from other beer bloggers so when My Brewery Tap offered to send me a bottle I snapped Rich’s hand off. I also drank it pretty much straight away but with one thing and another it’s taken me ages to get round […]
View Post american beer, coninually hopped, hops, IPA, italian beer, pilsnerSome of you will know that a couple of weeks ago I walked from Coast to Coast, St Bees Head on the West coast to Robin Hoods Bay on the East coast. It involved over 192 miles of walking in 13 days, but this is a beer blog so you probably don’t want to know […]
View Post ale, coast to coast, hiking, local beers, pub crawl, pubs, walkingA few weeks ago I received something a little bit different in the post, these came in the shape of Beer Savers, Beer Savers are little silicone bottle caps that are designed to fit onto beer bottles keeping your beer fresh and fizzy. I’ve seen all sorts of stoppers and caps before but never anything like these, […]
View PostWhile I was at The Great British Beer Festival, Dave, otherwise known a HardknottDave very kindly gave me a bottle of his latest brew, Infra Red. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Hardknott Brewery, They started off brewing up at the Woolpack Pub in Boot, then Dave and Ann sold the pub […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, english beer, English IPA, IPA, red beer, red ipa, usa ipaFor those of you who don’t already know there I am off to walk from one side of the country to the other, St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay to be precise. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for as long as I can remember. So my bags are all packed and first thing in […]
View Post Beer, beer walks, coast to coast, intermission, pub walk, walkingThose of you who are regular readers of the blog or who know me, will know how much of a huge fan I am of Moor Beer. Justin makes some absolutely brilliant beers and is a really nice guy to boot. I’ve been lucky enough to try alot of Moor beer both in bottle and from cask […]
View Post bottled beer, english ale, Kent, kent ale, moor brewing co, southern beer