An 8% beer from Cumbria – yup you read that right, I know it’s quite a rarity for a high ABV beer to come out of Cumbria with only a few brave people like Hardknott Dave, Strigers Beer and the odd special from Keswick brewing anything other than ~4% “sesison beer”. Croglin Vampire from Cumbrian […]
View Post bottled beer, cumbrian beer, doppelbockThis Week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Rob Hill courtesy of @Highlandbrewlew on twitter! They make some fab ales and are great craic on twitter so please try their beers if you see them. What is your Brewery name? We have an identity crisis: the company is the Highland Brewing Company Ltd; the brewery is […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, orkney, scottish ale, scottish beerJust wanted to wish Kelly (and Catherine) all the best for their big move back to the other side of the world, I hope it all goes well and the Gods of brewing smile upon you and help you find a new job.The UK Brewing scene and Twissup won’t be the same without you, your […]
View PostWhat is your brewery capacity? 500,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? The diversity of beers and packages we produce How long have you been brewing for? Gainfully about 33 years How did you get into brewing? Doing a degree in it at Heriot Watt What beers do you brew regularly? Lots but my […]
View Post cask ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, Yorkshire beerNow 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, WetherspoonsThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from someone who comes highly recomended from a few people who I’ve spoken to. What is your brewery capacity? We are theoretically capable of c. 900 brl p.a but currently running at around 750, which we are comfortable with as I don’t like sending ‘green’ beer out or rushing […]
View PostThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from the good old U S of A , and from a brewery I recently fell in love with after working my way through a case of their beers. So over to Jeremy… What is your Brewery name? Founders Brewing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan What is your brewery […]
View Post american beer, foreign beers., Meet The Brewer, USA beer, usa ipaThe Kernel Brewery were a brewery I first found out about via twitter and Phil from Beermerchants. I’ve since become hooked on their delicious range of beers, so much so that I can’t belive I’ve not written about them before now. The Simco IPA as the name suggests is a single hopped IPA using the […]
View Post british beer, english beer, IPA, london beerWhilst doing some shopping in Morrisons on Sunday I wandered down the beer aisle to see if they had got any new or interesting beers in, unfortunately this usually ends in disappointment as they rarely have anything new or exciting, the last one I remember was Sierra Nevada Pale Ale which they started stocking a […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, hoppy beer, morrisons, red beer, scottish beer, scottish red ale, Supermarket beer