Last week saw the latest get together of the Cumbrian Beer Appreciation Group (CBAG), after seeing tweets from previous events I’d quite fancied going to one but had never manged to time my holidays with the meals, this time however my luck was in and we were planning on heading to the Lake District when […]
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It seems wrong that I’ve not written about Magic Rock beers on here before, especially as I’ve supped an awful lot of them from bottle, cask and even keg. So I thought it was about time I broke the duck, jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a little bit about them. Based in Huddersfield, Magic […]
View Post beer and cheese, beer and food, Beer and food pairingDurham Brewery have recently undergone a bit of a makeover not only releasing some new beers but they’ve changed their iconic branding and got themselves a shiny new website. The branding is starting to grow on me, I was a huge fan of the old bottles and pumpclips so I was a little shocked when […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, Durham Brewery, real ale, Underrated Breweries, vegan beerIf you’ve not seen Beer Tickers Beyond The Ale then you’ve missed a treat. If you’ve no idea what it is then check out my review here. If you fall into either of the above or have seen it and want your own shiny new, cellophane wrapped copy to watch then all you have to do is […]
View Post beer tickersWhat now seems like an age ago I popped down to York on the train, this wasn’t one of my usual jaunts to try and cram as many pubs in as possible it was with the specific intention of spending most if not all of the day at the Slip Inn at what promised to […]
View PostJust a quick one, I’ve set up a Mini League on the Dream Team Fantasy football for anyone that wants to join there are prizes provided by Dream Tam if we get more than 10 teams in the League and I might even shout the winner a few beers. To join simply click here to […]
View Post beer and footballLast week It all kicked off about trying to get Beer on the BBC, and in my opinion rightly so. I watch Saturday Kitchen most weeks and It really does get on my nerves that they match every food with wine. Don’t get me wrong I like wine, but quite often beer matches the food […]
View PostLast night was another of those nights I couldn’t sleep, for what ever reason, inevitably I found my self browsing my YouTube subscriptions when a new video from NZ Craft Beer tv appeared, this video was part 4 of the 2011 and inaugural mashup. Having completely forgotten about the previous episodes I found my self […]
View Post breweries, brewers, brewing, epic beer, New zealandFirstly thanks for all of the entries into the Slurp Beer competition, there were well over 100 entries and 79 people who answered the questions correctly. The winner was picked after I tweeted asking for a number, this corresponded to the row of in the database of correct entries and this lucky person was Cinabar […]
View PostAfter an excellent day in Chester the plans for the next couple of days included more walking that beer but that’s not to say it didn’t include a fair bit of beer. You can read about the walking here or have a nose at my photos here, so I thought I’d do a quick round […]
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