Just a quick update on the NHS thing so far, it looks like I’ve been a naughty boy, again it’s not alot of bottles just a couple of rather strong ones: According to their little warning in the last 7 days i am 2.7 units over the daily recommended allowance and I am officialy at […]
View PostOver the last few weeks I have made a couple of posts about my drinking habits (one here and one here), well yesterday was the end of my first week of tracking my alcohol intake using the NHS Iphone app. As you can see below I didn’t do too badly. As you can see Friday’s […]
View Post binge drinking, drinking habits, nhsHook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, […]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesYes, before you say it I know this is a beer blog, but the nice people over at Freshcase were kind enough to offer me a couple of packs of their wine in it’s new fangled boxes so I thought I would return the favour with a bit of a write up, and as a […]
View Post freshcase, hardys, nottage hill, wineDrinking habits of the nation are often discussed, in the media and on blogs so i thought I would jump on the bandwagon and discuss my own drinking habits. Because I have a rather large beer cupboard, spend a lot of time talking and blogging about beer, and on a Friday i usually tweet about […]
View Post Beer drinking, beer habits, drinking habitsLast night I was due to go to the Saltburn Beer Festival, I had been looking forward to it for months, especially as I had seen the beer list and it contained some beers I really wanted to try. I had originally planned to go on the Friday but a family engagement cropped up so […]
View PostA friend of Beer Reviews from twitter and a participent in the up and coming #beerswap @richardmackney has posted a great little article on his blog about his day brewing with the guys at his local microbrewery, it’s a wicked little post so thought I would share it with you incase you don’t already follow […]
View Post Brewing beer, english ale, local ales, micro brewery, nutbrook breweryBrewDog’s eagerly awaited plan to take over the world has been announced – It comes under the banner Equity for Punks. They are offerring 10,000 people the chance to buy shares at £230 for 1000 shares. It seems like a novel way of raising some cash and a better idea than going on the Dragons […]
View Post BrewDogFollowing up from the £1 Ale Taste Challenge a few weeks ago I thought I would let you in on some of the ales i have been buying from the supermarkets over the week or two, not only have I found some absolute crackers I have manged to try/buy quite a few new ales. I […]
View Post Bargain Beer, beer cupboard, Belgian Beer, english ales, Supermarket beerYou may have already seen on twitter and on Mark Dredge’s Website that there is something called The Big Blogger Beer Swap going on, if not you can read all about it on his website. Myself and Mark from Real Ale Reviews decided to give it a “trial run” so i thought I would leave […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ale, local ales