What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Lovibonds Brewery. Lovibonds is quite a historic name in British brewing that unfortunately died a death in the late 60’s. We resurrected it in 2005. What is your brewery capacity? We do a lot of 750l (~5 UK barrel) batches and are moving into […]
View Post bottled beer, keg beer, london brewersI’ll always have a soft spot for Innis and Gunn, It was one of the first beers I got into and into in a big way, I used to drink it all of the time, recently I’ve found it a bit sweet so stopped drinking it, a shame really as it was a true gateway […]
View Post bottled beer, draught beer, oak aged beer, scottish beerThis weeks Meet The Brewer comes from Jon over at Stringers Beer (or Stringers – no apostrophe), who are based over in beautiful Cumbria and make some cracking beers. They have some great branding and their casks are bright yellow and purple so what’s not to like! What is your brewery capacity? A minuscule 11 […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, cumbrian beer, lake district, lakeland ales, Meet The BrewerThis week’s Meet the brewer comes from one of the first breweries I started drinking who are just a short trip down the road from me and close by to some excellent hiking and stunning scenery. What is your brewery capacity? 80,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? We use the Yorkshire Square […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, real ale, yorkshire, Yorkshire beerOpen It night one was a success, I just opened the one bottle, the rather stunning Brewdog Abstrakt AB:04, Night two had a lot to live up to. We went up to @davelozman ‘s where he’d pulled a few special bottles from his stash and cooked a huge chunk of lamb stuffed with haggis, It […]
View Post aged beer, bottled beer, expensive beer, great beer, open it, whisky beerThis was probably Brewdog beer I was looking forward to the release of with most anticipation, those that know me or follow me on twitter will know that I’m just as obsessed with great coffee (usually from the excellent Hasbean) and everything chilli related (see my other blog) So given that AB:04 contained Hasbean coffee, […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, BrewDog, scottish beer, Strong beerThis weeks Meet the brewer comes from home of Last of the Summer wine, a true British Classic and from two guys who after spending a few hours gettting twissed and sharing a monster curry, They were a great laugh, their passion and knowledge came across in bucket loads and I’ve got a feeling they […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, Yorkshire AleA few months ago Adnams released a Handcrafted Ales selection case, it contained 6 bottles, 6 different styles from around the world, well that was the plan but they were out of one of the beers so It was replaced by a second bottle of the American Style IPA, the case also included A Kolner, […]
View Post Adnams, American sytle, bottle contitioned, bottled beer, india pale ale, IPA, usa styleLast week I received an email asking if I’d like to go and sample some of the ales available as part of the the NovEMBER Ale festival at my local Ember Inns. Not one to pass up on an excuse to visit the pub I hot footed it along the road to our local, Turners […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, locale, pub, redcar beerWhen Beermerchants announced they were getting a pallet load of Mikkeller beers I found my self rather excited (some would say too excited), I’d not had any beer from Mikkeller since visiting the Great British Beer Festival a few months back and he is one of my favourite if not my favourite brewer. For those […]
View Post bottled beer, danish beer, IPA, lager, Mikkeller