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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Battle of the Breweries: Mallinsons vs Roosters @ The Slip Inn, York, 23rd June
The last Battle of the Breweries pitted Marble against Summer Wine and was a great day out with plenty of excellent beers and a tasty BBQ. This one promises to be another corker with 16 beers from 2 of Yorkshires best breweries….Mallinsons and Roosters. It kicks off at midday and along with the beer there […]
View Post battle of the breweries, battle of the brewers, cask ale, real ale, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerNew Years Eve beers in York
Unsure what to do during the day on new year’s eve and with the other half at work myself and Dave managed to swing some cheap train tickets to York so I decided to dig out the map I made for 2009’s trip with Mark from Real Ale Reviews add a couple of new pubs […]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, cask beer, IPA, keg beer, pub crawl, train beer, york, york beer, york pubsMeet The Brewer: Sam Franklin (Roosters Brewery)
Today’s Meet The Brewer comes from a brewery I am really fond of, they make some interesting and exciting ales and are regulars in a lot of the pubs where we end up after walking. Roosters Brewery name is because it is natural, male like most of our customers were when the brewery opened, and […]
View Post brewery, Meet The Brewer, real ale, uk beer, yorkshire, Yorkshire beerRoosters – Outlaw – Wanted Dead or Alive (5%)
Dead or Alive is brewed by Roosters as part of their experimental arm, “Outlaw”. I am quite a big fan of Roosters as we see their beers around here quite a lot, nearly always on cask…in fact until I went to Beer Ritz in Leeds I hadn’t seen Roosters beer in bottles. When Zak explained […]
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