At 7:30pm it’s your chance to meet people from BrewDog including Josie Ludford their Northern Territory Sales & Marketing Manager. There’ll be talk, tasters and snacks at half time. If you’ve not been to the Tyne for a while you might not know that, alongside their Gold Tankard and two other rotating Wylam beers they […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, kegged beer, northern beer, the tyneIn a first for Meet the Brewer we head across the North Sea to Norway and chat to Kjetil Jikiun of Nøgne ø What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Nøgne ø, Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri, which litteraly means Naked Island, The Uncomromising Brewery. Naked Island is a term from from the […]
View Post bottled beer, casked beer, kegged beer, Meet The Brewer, Norweigan beerThis week Meet the Brewer comes from one of my favourite overseas breweries, housed in an iconic mill, its Menno from Brouwerij de Molen What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Brouwerij de Molen which means Brewery the Mill. We are located in a historic mill build in 1697. What is […]
View Post bottled beer, dutch beer, european beer, kegged beer, Meet The Brewer, windmillThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Ian Bradford, or Brad as he’s know from Lymestone Brewery in Staffordshire. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Lymestone Brewery:- an amalgamation of the names of the towns of Newcastle under Lyme and Stone, both in Staffordshire What is your brewery capacity? 6 […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, micro brewery, real ale, staffordshireA couple of days ago I spotted Richard Fox’s Beer and Food book going cheap so decided to order it and see what it was like. I’ve only had a quick flick through so there will be a proper review of it soon, but in the meantime I decided to make his beer mashed potatoes […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipes, bottled beer, cooking with beerFor my bit of Friday Fun I thought I would post a few of my favourite beer labels, in no particular order, most of these were taken on my mobile because I’m too lazy to dig out the ones from my camera. There’s also a few that I couldn’t find like Brewdog Zephyr and some […]
View Post beer branding, beer labelling, beer labels, bottled beer, sexy labelsThis week was one of those weeks I was trying not to drink on a work night, unfortunately I only lasted until Wednesday night and surprisingly it wasn’t the canned Brewdog Punk IPA that had arrived earlier in the week that tempted me into breaking my abstinence, it was a a bottle from the case […]
View Post badger beer, bottled ale, bottled beer, clear bottles, Seasonal aleSome big news in the world of UK Brewing is that after recently re launching the White Sheild Brewery, Molson Coors have aquired the Award winning Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall. When I first read the title I was suprised…infact it made me swear out loud, but after reading the press release It sounds like a […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, coors, cornish beer, molson coors, sharp'sThis week’s meet the brewer comes from the depths of lovely Yorkshire and a brewery who’s beers I’ve been drinking for as long as I can remember. What is your brewery capacity? 420 UK Barrels a week What is different about your brewery? We are able to brew both traditional English ales and Continental style […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, copper dragon, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerJust before Christmas the legendary gent that is Stuart Howe from Sharp’s (you may know him from the Hugh and Oz raise the bar program that was on the BBC or as the fella who made beer with offal) sent me a bottle of a beer that in his own words he described as SUBLIME […]
View Post bottled beer, cornish beer, lager, orval, saaz, sharp's