As well as the Whitby Beer festival this week also sees another local Beer festival at Redcar, It’s not been particularly well advertised hence this rather late post but here are the details for those of you that are close by. It starts on Thursday and runs through to Saturday, There is entertainment on each […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, redcar, yorkshireNow that the nights have drawn in and the weather has got cooler, I start to fancy darker, richer food as a result the slow cooker gets more of a hammering that usual. My beer tastes also start to change, I move onto the more autumnal, darker fruity beers such as stouts and porters, that’s […]
View Post beer recipes, bottled ale, StoutWhen Brewdog first arrived on the scene I remember ordering their beers online and being blow away by how different they were, their branding was spot on and the beers tasted fab, Even the early tasting case I bought that had prototype bottles of what were to become Chaos Theory and Zeitgeist showed just how […]
View Post Beer Festival, BrewDog, scottish ale, WetherspoonsRight, I need some help, I am doing a bit of reasearch for a blog project and I want to know your opinions on Big bottles of beer. I’m a big fan of 750ml bottles of beer, big bottles of IPA, Kriek and Geuze are fab for drinking while laying in the summer sun or […]
View Post big bottles, bottled beer, buying habits, drinkig habitsHere comes the next community blog project and this one is about collaboration, sharing and having an excuse to open something special. Does any of the following sound familiar… Lots of unopened bottles at home, special bottles, rare bottles, expensive bottles or just bottles that aren’t ready to be opened. Most of them are waiting […]
View Post beer blogging, Beer Events, bottled beerOn Saturday I finally got to go to the Rat Race Ale House, It’s a short train journey up the road but I’ve never gotten round to jumping on the train. Until recently it couldn’t open when Hartlepool were playing at home. So on Saturday I jumped on the train with Trev and we headed […]
View Post cask ale, hartlepool, pub, real aleSome 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, walkingIn the recent Cask Report it mentioned about the importance of social media and an online presence for breweries and licensees and while I agree that it’s a very important (I’m a web developer by trade) tool it’s still seems that most breweries in the UK don’t consider the Internet an important medium and if […]
View Post breweries, cask report, facebook, twitterToday saw the release of the National Cask Ale Report 2010-2011. The report is written by Pete Brown and reports on the latest trends in the beer and pub market, It’s choc full of facts and figures and is well worth a read. I digested most of it over my first cuppa of the day […]
View Post ale, Beer, british beer, cask ale, drinking, english ale, pubsA 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, […]
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