I was very kindly sent this from Adnams a few weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to type my notes up for a while now but not got round to it, until now. It’s grey and rainy outside and just the site of the picture as I was uploading it cheered me up, it brought […]
View Post Adnams, english lager, lager, light beer, southern beer, summer beerThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me which is great as that’s the whole point of Beer Swap. The first thing that jumps out about Goat’s Leap is the label, I think it’s great, I love the […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, Bottle conditioned, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, English IPA, IPA, real aleLast 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 AleAfter a brief break in our Meet the brewer series, due to lots of busy brewers, we caught up with Brian Yorston from Wadworth and Co Ltd so here is what he had to say: What is your brewery capacity? About 100,000 brls per year or 160,000 Hl What is different about your brewery? All […]
View Post english beer, Meet The Brewer, real aleA while back I posted my thoughts on Franks Alcoholic Ginger Beer when I came across it in our local Weatherspoons, these thoughts currently come up top on google for a few of the search terms related to the beer. As a result I was recently contacted by Koppaberg, who make Frank’s and their marketing […]
View Post ginger ale, ginger beer, koppabergI first came across Moor JJJ IPA when I was talking to Phil from Beermerchants, he mentioned he was getting some in and that it was a strong IPA from one of his local breweries, He was pretty excited about being able to sell it on the site, and quite rightly so, it’s not sold […]
View Post beermerchants, english ale, IPA, kent ale, moor beerI’ve been a fan of Worthington White Shield for some time now, even more so after a visit to the brewery and meeting Steve Wellington during Twissup does Burton Upon Trent. White Shield is one of those iconic beers that just about every beer drinker has heard of if not tried. It’s one of, if […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, burton upon trent, english ale, IPA, pale ale, real aleThis week our Meet The Brewer comes from George Thompson from Strangford Lough Brewing Company What is different about your brewery? We are trying to reconnect US beer drinkers with the fields of St Patrick’s Country. How long have you been brewing for? Since 1979 How did you get into brewing? Post graduate degree in […]
View Post Irish beer, Meet The BrewerIt 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, TwissupWell that’s it, Twissup Part Deux is well and truley over, it was one hell of a weekend, you will no doubt read lots of different posts and look at millions of pictures of the day’s events so I was going to keep it short, but failed miserably. Some of the stuff might be in […]
View Post blogger meet up, blue moon, burton, molson coors, sheffield, Twissup, white shield