I recently acquired this beer from my dad, who was passing the Hambleton Brewery, I knew they bottled ales for other breweries after a recent tour there, however I didn’t realise they also sold them from their shop. As neither my dad or myself had heard of Bowland before we thought we would try a […]
View Post bitter, Bowland Brewery, english alesThis was another beer that i picked up from @beermerchants on twitter, along with a couple of their others, although after tasting this one i wish i had ordered some OOKS and the other couple that i didn’t plump for. The main thing that attracted me to this ale was actually the description on the […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, Gadds, hoppy beer, ramsgateThis was one of the beers kindly sent over by @hogsbackbrewery. It was the only one out of the selection they sent that I had previously tried so I thought i would share it at the Beer bloggers day out. The bottle is gives a very upmarket feel, especially with the cool gold CAMRA cap […]
View Post A over T, english ales, Hogs Back BreweryThe guys over at Hogs Back brewery kindly sent me over a selection of their ales to try, the reviews will be on here very soon, in the meantime here is a bit about them from their website. The Hogs Back Brewery is an independent brewery based in Tongham, Surrey. Their flagship real ale, ‘TEA’ (Traditional English Ale), has […]
View Post english ales, Hogsback breweryThis was another of the beers in my mixed case from @crownbrewerstu on twitter. I remember reading the description for this ale as I was putting it onto a page of it’s own on their website, It read: This traditional golden IPA (7% ABV) is full flavoured packed with bitterness from the 5kg of Bramlin […]
View Post Crown Brewery, IPAI recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffiedand in return I ended up with a few of his ales, including something that excited me quite a lot – Ring of fire, a 10.3% Chilli beer. In case you didn’t know I’m also a bit of a chilli addict and run […]
View Post Chilli Beer, Crown Brewery, Ring of fireI quite like the Wells Bombardier range of beers, standard Bombardier was one of the first real ales i remember drinking and Bombardier Satanic Mills is a cracking dark ale, So when i saw Burning Gold on the shelf in the supermarket i thought i better give it a go and complete my Wells Bombardier […]
View Post Bombardier, Burning Gold, WellsI recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffied, he was having problems with his website so i offered to lend a hand, In return he was kind enough to send me a mixed case of some of his ales (each of which i will review soon) The Crown brewery was started in […]
View Post Chilli Beer, Crown Brewery, Ring of fire, Sheffield Brewery, UPA, Wheat StoutI’ve been saving this one for a special occasion as it’s not cheap and i had heard it was pretty special, well the special occasion came when England won the Ashes, they don’t come much more special than that. As much as i love lip smacking and tongue tingling hoppy beers i love dark rich […]
View Post Bracia, Stout, ThornbridgeI’ve been a fan of Flying Dog beers for a while but they are a bit of a pain to get hold of, luckily Tesco have now started to stock two of them so they are easy to get hold of (thanks to eurodog and bierenco, if u can’t find it get it from beermerchants) […]
View Post american beer, classic pale ale, Flying dog