A few weeks back I recieved a Duvel gift pack and press release in the post, The pack contained 2 bottles of Duvel and a nice big branded Duvel Glass. The whole box is well put together and covered in the nice but simple Duvel branding, the box has lots of information about Duvel on […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Golden ale, Strong beerI first encountered Stannington Stout when I visited Crown Brewery to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. Although by the time I drank it I may have been a little worse for wear, I did however enter “Lovely roast almost smokey flavour” to my phone. So when Stu sent me some that he had bottled […]
View Post Crown Brewery, dark beer, sheffiled beer, StoutI couple of weeks ago Fergus from Adnams sent me a couple of rather special bottles of beer. Until now i’ve not been able to talk about one of them so now the shackles are off I can spill the beans. The first of the two beers was Adnams Extra, this once award winning beer […]
View Post Adnams, beer samples, cask ale, cask ale week, fergus fitzgerald, real aleI recently ordered a couple of cases of Unpronounceable IPA from My Brewery Tap, Stu being the gent he is, kindly slipped in a couple of unlabelled bottles of his new Wheat Beer for me to try. Before I drank and photographed them a little bit of Blue Peter magic was needed, I managed to […]
View Post crown brewer stu, Crown Brewery, german beer, Sheffield beers, weissbier, wheat beer, white beerI’ve wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog‘s Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge’s Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven’t actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long enough to compare them side by side. So with the arrival of my latest 52 week beer club I finally had both beers in […]
View Post Blind beer tasting, BrewDog, Crown Brewery, IPA, jaipur, punk, Thornbridge, uipa, unpronouncable IPAI’m not entirely sure where I got Naylor’s Ginger Beer from but I found it in the beer cupboard when I was looking for something a little different, so decided to crack it open. Naylor’s Ginger Beer is part of their Brewers Choice range, this is a range of seasonal and one off beers that […]
View Post english ale, ginger ale, ginger beer, NaylorsI write this as I am sat here with a rather large bulbous glass that has a rather small amount of what is currently the world’s strongest “beer”, Sink The Bismarck, from Brewdog. My brother bought the bottle a few weeks ago and it arrived a couple of days ago, he offered to bring some […]
View Post 41%, BrewDog, IPA, scottish ale, Strong beer, world's strongest beerThe very kind guys and girls over at R & R recently sent me a bottle of Liefmans Fruit beer, which I in turn gave to my other half as she loves her fruit beers. Liefmans’ Fruit is a new introduction to the Liefmans range. It is based on older brother Liefmans Cuvée Brut (formerly […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Fruit BeerBarngates Brewery is a brewery a I first came across a few years back when I was in the Lake District, looking for a few beers to take back to our tent, the shop had a few bottled beers all by Barngates so I bought one of each. This was long before I started blogging […]
View PostThis post has been sat here waiting to be completed for quite some time now but I recently found a bottle of Cornish IPA at the back of the beer cupboard, which as it happened needed drinking and in turn prompted me to finish this blog post. I first came across Cornish IPA when I […]
View Post cornish ale, english ale, IPA, Marks and Spencer