This week Nick the MD from Otley Brewing Company has very kindly filled in our Meet The Brewer feature, They were also kind enough to send me a couple of bottles of their ales so watch out for the reviews soon. What is your brewery capacity? 60 Barrels What is different about your brewery? We […]
View Post Meet The Brewer, nick otley, otley brewing, welsh ale, welsh beerMy Beer Swap Part Deux beers arrived a couple of weeks ago now, Andrew over at Bristol Beer Factory was quick off the mark in sending them and they arrived packaged very well along with a little note telling me what the beers were, as they were all bottle conditioned I decided to put them […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, English IPA, ipa. dry hopped, real aleThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from the far away land that is the USA, from a brewery I love and wish I could get more of their beers (although a brewery in Europe might be on the cards), from a man with possibly the best name in brewing (aside from Randy Mosher) it’s the […]
View Post american IPA, Stone brewing, US beer, USAI got an interesting message on facebook from one of they guys over at Cropton Brewery so thought I would share the details with you. Come and stay with us and learn how to brew your own beer. You will be taught about the brewing process, learn which malts and hops to choose to create […]
View Post brew your own beer, Brewday, Cropton, local ale, Yorkshire AleA few weeks back I recieved a Duvel gift pack and press release in the post, The pack contained 2 bottles of Duvel and a nice big branded Duvel Glass. The whole box is well put together and covered in the nice but simple Duvel branding, the box has lots of information about Duvel on […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Golden ale, Strong beerI first encountered Stannington Stout when I visited Crown Brewery to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. Although by the time I drank it I may have been a little worse for wear, I did however enter “Lovely roast almost smokey flavour” to my phone. So when Stu sent me some that he had bottled […]
View Post Crown Brewery, dark beer, sheffiled beer, StoutThis weeks Meet the Brewer is Mike from Okells, I first encountered Okells a while back when I tried one of their beers in a local pub, soon after I noticed that our local cheap shop had cases of their Dr Okells IPA very very cheap so I bought a load and it was delicious, […]
View Post IPA, Meet The BrewerI recently had an email from a marketing company asking me if I would like a case of beer for my self and a case of beer for one of you lucky readers. All it involved was posting a link to the beer’s website and embedding a teaser video for their latest campaign….Great I thought, […]
View Post advertisng, Shepherd Neame, sink the bismarck, spitfireI couple of weeks ago Fergus from Adnams sent me a couple of rather special bottles of beer. Until now i’ve not been able to talk about one of them so now the shackles are off I can spill the beans. The first of the two beers was Adnams Extra, this once award winning beer […]
View Post Adnams, beer samples, cask ale, cask ale week, fergus fitzgerald, real aleRecenlty the lovely @ginsoak and @the_brew_co took over the Harlequin Pub in Sheffield, it’s certainly been keeping them busy and they have had their fair share of teething troubles (you can read about them here) but despite the lack of sleep and sit down meals they are battling on and have decided to put on […]
View Post Beer Festival, ginsoak, sheffield, sheffield beer, The Brew Co, The Brew Company, the harlequin