Whitstable Raspberry Wheat Beer was another of the Beer Swap beers sent by Pete. I’ll be honest and until the beers arrived, I had not heard of Whitstable brewery, so as is usually the case with new things, I headed off to Google and ended up on the Whitstable brewery website, which told me they are […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Fruit Beer, Kent, wheat beer, WhitstableLast week together with Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and Fletcher (from real ale reviews) we launched the Golden Pint Awards (not the new jazzy logo thanks to robsterowski) so I thought it was about time I filled in the categories my self, It’s taken me ages to decide on some of the categories […]
View Post american beer, beer blogger awards, english ale, Golden Pints, real aleLeviathan was the last of the trio of Hopdaemon beers that Pete sent as part of Beer Swap, I had enjoyed the other two (Skrimshander and Green Daemon Hellas) so to say I was looking forward to this was an understatement, the description on the bottle and on the Hopdaemon website sounded right up my […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Hopdaemon, Kent, kentish hopsHop Daemon’s Green Daemon Helles was the 2nd beer I decided to sample from my beer swap package. Green Daemon Helles is a 5% ABV bottle conditioned pale beer, it had quite a lot to live up to after the Skrimshander i had with my midweek curry. It started off quite promising when it poured […]
View Post Beer Swap, Bottle conditioned, english ales, english lager, HopdaemonHopdaemon’s beers were something I had heard a little bit about, mainly through twitter and the various beer blog’s so when my proper beer swap beers arrived and I opened them up to find that my beer swapper, @petebrissenden brewer at Hopdaemon had included some of his beers along with some other local brews I was […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, English IPA, Hopdaemon, IPAI first came across Doctor Okells IPA in the summer, when I bought some when in the Lake District, after trying it when we got home I wished I had bought more, then a few months ago when I was looking in the cheapo shop’s in town I saw that home bargains were selling it […]
View Post english ale, IPA, Okells, real aleThis was the last of the Beer Swap test parcel beers that Mark from @realalereviews sent me. I was all ready to post the story on the beer and the brewery as it was another place (apart from the civil war that is) I hadn’t heard of so when I looked it up on google, […]
View Post Beer Swap, Cherwell Valley, cropredy bridge, english alesCotswold Wheat Beer was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, (which also included Hook Norton Hooky Gold and Hook Norton Haymaker) and was from a brewery I hadn’t heard of before so I went straight to their website. According to their site: Modelled on the famous Weisse […]
View Post Beer Swap, Cotswold Brewing Co, english ales, wheat beerHook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, […]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesHooky Norton Hooky Gold was one of the 4 Beer Swap test parcel beers that were sent to me by @realalereviews, Hook Norton was a brewery that I was familiar with but I had never had Hooky Gold so was looking forward to trying it. Hooky Gold is a pale and refreshing ale from Hook […]
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