What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our name is the Adventure Brewery. The name came from the idea of going on a adventure round the world with different ingredients, as well as an adventure for ourselves with starting the brewery, and then more simply was a great play on where […]
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I’ve been meaning to write this since I was absolutely blow away by the beer from the moment I opened the bottle, personally I think it’s probably the best IPA being brewed in the UK right now. Automaton has two of my favourite hops in…Citra and Saaz, which combine brilliantly to provide an array of […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Pig and Porter, my wife thought of it. It’s because we are an event catering business, specialising in Hog Roasts and barbecued food, that brews it’s own beer. What is your brewery capacity? We currently cuckoo brew so, depending on the brewery, it is […]
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Shepherd Neame have been doing a great job of late with the release of their Classic Collection, including Generation Ale, India Pale Ale and Double Stout, all with new branding that has a lovely historical feel to it and (thankfully) steps away from the glossy labels and clear bottles of main Shepherd Neame range. The […]
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The info for this just landed in my inbox so I thought I’d share it with you as the Bacchus is a cracking pub and the event sounds like it will be a cracker, unfortunately I won’t be there as it’s at the same time as Hawkshead Beer Festival. It starts on the 20th July […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Timothy Taylor & Co. Ltd, named after our founder Timothy Taylor himself in 1858. What is your brewery capacity? That’s a hard one to answer really as all breweries can be manipulated to achieve volumes out with your plants normal capabilities. Even micros these […]
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What is your name? Campbell Morrissy (American), David Ross (Scottish), Patrick Howell (Canadian), and Bruce Smith (Scottish). We are all Brewing & Distilling MSc students at Heriot-Watt University. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Natural Selection Brewing. I don’t quite know the origin, I guess it just evolved. (I love […]
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Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know just how much shouted about this beer a couple of weeks ago when I was down in Cornwall, those of you who know me know that I’m not easily pleased when it comes to beers and that I don’t often drink more than one of the […]
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Salopian brewery make one of my favourite beers in Darwin’s Origin so when they got in touch and asked if I fancied trying their 7.2% Vertigo there was no way I was going to decline. I didn’t know much about the beer so was a bit surprised when it poured as dark as it did […]
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It’s ages since I’ve written about a particular beer, mainly because I’ve been busy but also because I’ve kind of got stuck in a rut with beer, having had too many beers that just didn’t get me excited enough to put the effort into writing a blog post about it, until I popped into the […]
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