A friend of Beer Reviews from twitter and a participent in the up and coming #beerswap @richardmackney has posted a great little article on his blog about his day brewing with the guys at his local microbrewery, it’s a wicked little post so thought I would share it with you incase you don’t already follow […]
View Post Brewing beer, english ale, local ales, micro brewery, nutbrook breweryBrewDog’s eagerly awaited plan to take over the world has been announced – It comes under the banner Equity for Punks. They are offerring 10,000 people the chance to buy shares at £230 for 1000 shares. It seems like a novel way of raising some cash and a better idea than going on the Dragons […]
View Post BrewDogTimmermans Strawberry beer is something that i had never really taken seriously, mainly because it always thought it was a bit too sweet and as bad as it sounds, something Emily would order (she is very partial to a bit of fruit beer), so when i had the chance of trying some again* I decided […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Fruit Beer, Lambic Beer, Strawberry Beer, TimmermansMoor’s was one of those breweries i had heard whispers about and something i had never managed to track down, Then a certain Internet purveyor of fine ales (who will be the cause of my divorce*) started stocking them, funnily enough around the time i was just about to order a few of the new […]
View Post english ales, IPA, Kent, Moor, Moor Somerland GoldTraditional English Ale or T.E.A for short, was a beer I had wanted to try for a while, so when I got my hands on a bottle in one of Hogs Back’s nice little gift sets, I was quite excited to try it, unfortunately i hadn’t had time to write up the review until now. T.E.A is […]
View Post bitter, Bottle conditioned, english ales, Hogs Back Brewery, T.E.AJust wanted to say a quick congratulations to Nick and his team @ Hambleton Ales, on winning the Sainsbury Beer Competition 2009. It’s nice to see a quality local ale producer doing well. More info can be found on on the SIBA website here I also want to say congratulations to Brewdog for their cunning […]
View Post BrewDog, english ales, Hambleton Ales, nick stafford, SainsburysThis was another of the beers that @crownbrewerstu sent me. After trying the Ring of Fire and Unpronounceable I.P.A I was really looking forward to this one, mainly because the other two had really surprised me and i thoroughly enjoyed them. The beer opened with a real fizz and started to foam out of the […]
View Post bitter, Crown Brewery, english ales, wheat beerRegular readers of the blog will know I am a big fan of Hambleton Ales, not only are they quite local to me but they make a cracking range of beers. One of my favourites is Hambleton Stallion, It’s classed as a premium bitter and personally I think it’s one of the best bitters around. […]
View Post english ales, Hambleton Ales, nick stafford, stallion, Yorkshire beerBowland Sky Dancer was another of the two Bowland Beers I picked up along with Headless Peg from Hambleton Brewery. This one takes it’s name from the Hen Harrier which is locally known as the Sky Dancer because of it’s elaborate flying displays, I can just imagine being sat outside a pub near the Bowland […]
View PostThis was another of the cheap ales I picked up at the same time as the Barnsley Beers. I wasn’t sure what to expect as I had never even heard of Tomos Watkins or the Hurns Brewing Co. When I opened the bottle it was that fizzy it nearly fizzed over, this also made it […]
View Post cwrw haf, hurns brewing, Tomos watkins, welsh beer