It’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing…It’s time for Meet the Brewer, this week It’s Pete Robert’s from The Brew Company in Sheffield, I recently met Pete at Twissup and he is really passionate about his beer and has some interesting ideas and plans for the future so keep an eye on him. […]
View Post local ale, Meet The Brewer, pete roberts, real ale, sheffield, The Brew Company, Yorkshire AleThis post has taken me a while to publish, not because I’ve been busy (even though I have), not because I’ve had other beer reviews to post (which I have) but due to the fact I couldn’t think of a fancy title, which I thought the beer deserved. I was explaining the dilemma to a […]
View Post american IPA, Beer merchants, best beer in the world, California, IPA, US beerI came across Askrigg Ale while looking for beers for Beer Swap, the bright orange label was really distinctive on the rather dull looking shelves at Lewis and Coopers in Northallerton. As it turns out all of the labels and bottles brewed by the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Co follow the same style, which I have […]
View Post local ale, locale, real ale, Yorkshire beerAcorn is a brewery that’s beer is available on cask quite regularly round these parts as they are based just down the road in Barnsley, having said that we don’t see them in bottles very much, if at all, mainly because we are lacking any sort of decent bottle shop. I came across Gorlovka, or […]
View Post Acorn, Barnsley, english ale, english ales, Imperial Stout, Stout, Yorkshire AleI found Mikkeller beers through a certain purveyor of fine ales, I’ve had quite a few different ones now and have built up a little bit of a backlog as far as reviewing them goes, So I thought i would start with one of my favourite ones and go from there. According to the Mikkeller […]
View PostThursday can only mean one thing, it’s time for meet the brewer, this week’s featured brewer is Dave from Hardknott, AKA WoolpackDave. I’ve met Dave a couple of times and he’s a cracking bloke, game for a laugh and knows his beer, he is also great at writing about beer, pubs and the beer industry […]
View Post Hardknott brewery, lake district, local ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, woolpack ann, woolpack daveIt seems like so long ago since I jumped on the train heading for Sheffield, but looking at the calendar it was only on Saturday, I can only put this down to either some sort of spacetime continum or a monumental hangover, which led to a couple of days of being dazed and confused. You […]
View Post beer blogger meet up, Crown Brewery, hillsborough hotel, marble, sheffield, Thornbridge, TwissupSamuel Berry’s Pale Ale was one of Crown Brewery’s beers that I hadn’t had until I visited the Hillsborough Hotel to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. I was given a taster while I was there and also bought a bottle home with me, it was meant to be drank on the train but I […]
View Post Crown Brewery, english ale, local ale, pale ale, real ale, the hillsboroughHighland Brewing Co are a micro brewery based on Orkney, I got chatting to Lew on twitter and we arranged a little swap – some of his (and his dad’s) beer for some of my winter chilli chutney. Before I knew it 4 bottles of rather tasty looking ale had landed on my doorstep waiting […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney, real ale, scottish aleNext up (and a day later than usual) in our meet the brewer feature, we have two for the price of one, as both Steve and Phil from Saints and Sinners have taken a grilling. If you haven’t heard of Saints & Sinners then I suggest you read this, then keep a close eye on […]
View Post english ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, Saints & Sinners