I know this post doesn’t have beer in, nor does it have a proper picture, It does however involve a bottle of cider (including a very brief “review” but I just had to share this recipe with you. I saw it in a slow cooker book in the cheap bookshop in town so i thought […]
View Post apple, beer and food, cider, recipe, westonsWith the announcement yesterday from Brewdog that they had released a 55% beer encased in a stuffed squirel or stoat It got me wondering as to what the most outrageous beer everyone had ever tried? or even the most outrageous place you have drank a beer? What made it so outrageous? Would you drink it […]
View Post Beer, BrewDog, friday, newsIn addition to the All Beer Experience kit i wrote about here, All Beer also have a rather handy beer finder website. The idea behind the beer finder is that no matter what your mood or the situation you should be able to find a beer that takes your fancy. You can search the site […]
View Post all beer, beer and food, Beer and food pairing, beer finder, beer styles, beer websiteI’d been following news about the beer tickers film on twitter for a while and it seemed to be getting a bit of a following, so just before Christmas I decided to buy a copy on DVD, I watched it not long after and started writing this post, when doing a bit of house keeping […]
View PostI received the following the other day, it sounds lke fun and I thought some of you might be interested in it. On a hot summer’s day there’s nothing better than a refreshing beer to cool us down. But do you often find a trip down the pub with your friends leaves you sticking to […]
View Post beer blog, beer tasting, onlinbe beerI know Mark does FABPOW’s quite a lot and they are great, I thought I would have a punt at it this week after first coming across this pairing when camping in Northumberland a few weeks ago. We were on Holy Island and some how manged to choose a day to visit when most of […]
View Post Beer and food pairing, bitter, FABPOW, food and beer, local ale, localeI first met Alex from All Beer at the Twissup in Sheffield, where he kindly organised for us to visit a few of the breweries in Sheffield. Since then Alex and All Beer seem to have gone from strength to strength. I’ve been spotting the All Beer Experience Kits all over the place including at […]
View Post all beer, beer books, beer gifts, beer glass, beer present, beer stylesLast week I joined my dad on their yearly institute brewery trip, over the years we have been to loads of different breweries and this year was a new one for me, one I had wanted to have a nose round for quite a while as we get quite a lot of their beers up here both […]
View Post brewery, brewery tour, english ale, pale ale, york, Yorkshire AleBeer blogger extraordinaire and Beer Ritz Leeds head honcho Zak Avery, famed for his use of an over sized wine glass, recently launched a book entitled 500 beers, having met Zak a couple of times now and watching all his videos on Youtube, I decided it would be rude not to buy a copy. As […]
View Post 500 beers, beer styles, zak averyIt was the Sunday after Twissup does Burton Upon Trent and it was time for me to head home, fortunately my train ticket said I had to go via Sheffield so I had arranged to meet brewers extraordinaire Stuart from Crown Brewery and Kelly Ryan from Thornbridge along with the legend that Reluctant Scooper, we […]
View Post Crown Brewery, scooping, sheffield, Sheffield Tap, sunday drinking, Thornbridge, Twissup