Williams Brothers recently saw me mention this post about Frank’s Ginger Ale and dropped me a line, offering to send me some of their new Ginger Beer, which was part of a test batch they had brewed and were looking for feedback on. I was so excited when the beer arrived I cracked one open […]
View Post ginger beer, real ale, scottish ale, williams brothersShepherd Neame 1698 was the last of my Beer Swap Beers, I know all of the reviews were supposed to have been finished before Christmas but as I received 7 beers plus the 4 test parcel beers, not to mention my trying not to drink during the week (sometimes failing miserably…a bit like tonight really), […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, Bottle conditioned, english ale, real aleI can hear you all thinking, “A lager? on Beer Reviews??” It’s not the first time – I reviewed Brewdog’s 77 Lager a while back, and when this one was sent to me I thought it would be rude not go give it a go. With Brooklyn Lager, the word “Lager” is a bit misleading […]
View Post american ale, lager, pale aleWay back in September I was sent these two bottles of Westmalle beer, One Tripel and one Dubbel, I decided the best way to tackle them would be one after the other. For those of you who haven’t heard of Westmalle it is brewed in a Trappist Abbey in Belgium, from what I have heard it’s only […]
View Post abbey beers, Belgian Beer, double, dubbel, tripel, WestmalleNext up in our meet the brewer feature is Fergus Fitzgerald from Adnams, For those of you who haven’t heard of Adnams, they are based in Southwold and do a cracking range of beers, they also run a selection of hotels and even do wine – yes wine! So over to Fergus for more about […]
View Post Adnams, english ale, Green Beer, Meet The Brewer, real aleGadds are a brewery I tried a few times during 2009 so when I opened by Beer Swap parcel and found a bottle of the black pearl I was over the moon, especially as it wasn’t one I’d had before and I had really enjoyed Gadds No.3, Dogbolter and Ancestors (reviews coming soon). Black Pearl […]
View Post blogger beer swap, english ale, Gadds, real aleWhitstable Oyster Stout was the 2nd of the Whitstable beers that Pete sent as part of Beer (but you already gathered that from the title) Just like the Raspberry Wheat this one came in a 330ml bottle with the same picture on, which as I said before I really liked, so I was pleased to see […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, real ale, Stout, WhitstableIn this week’s Meet the Brewer feature, Mikkel from the legendary Danish brewery, Mikkeller answers our questions. For those of you who haven’t heard of Mikkeller I suggest you try your best to track down some of their beers, every single one that I have had has been top notch, especially Stateside IPA and Beer […]
View Post danish beer, Meet The Brewer, MikkellerI’ve decided to publish number 3 in our Meet the Brewer series a little early this week, anyone would think it was Christmas!I first came across Great Heck Brewing on Twitter and wanted to find out a bit more about them so was pleased when Denzil agreed to join in with Meet the Brewer. So […]
View Post english ale, great heck, local ale, Meet the brwer, real ale, Yorkshire beerA return to York has been on the cards for me for some time, so when I got chatting to Mark from Real Ale Reviews about taking a day off work and going for a few beers we decided that York would be a great place to go as it was easy for us both […]
View Post english ales, pub crawl, pubs, sierra nevada, york