Over the last couple of weeks it all seems to have gone a bit mad in the UK beer scene. There seems to be this really unsavoury undercurrent of sniping, backbiting and a hint of ill feeling between CAMRA, Brewers and Bloggers. Everyone seems to have forgotten they all share something in common, something very […]
View Post beer blog, beer blogging, beer politics, BrewDogI’ve had this review sitting round here for a good while now but never gotten round to posting it, mainly because I’ve had other stuff to say but also because Dogma was no longer available from Brewdog…..well until now. News broke a couple of days ago that Dogma was back in the Brewdog store (you […]
View Post BrewDog, heather beer, honey beer, scottish beer, unusual beerSorry it’s taken so long to announce the winner of the wonderful mixed case from My Brewery Tap, we had way more entries to our cooking with beer competition than I ever imagined. There was everything from Pork cooked in beer to nutella and beer pancakes, some of the recipes were incredibly simple others required […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipes, BrewDog, cooking with food, recipeAt 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 tyneThere’s been a lot of talk about Brewdog’s Punk IPA lately, first of all they released a version called Punk X, I think it was an experiment to see what people thought of Punk IPA with a few tweeks, It was released in cask and bottle (possibly keg too) and not being able to get […]
View Post BrewDog, british beer, Canned beer, IPA, punk, scottish beerLast night @davelozman and his mrs came for tea, It’s always a great night and we usually sup some fantastic beer so I took a bit of a risk and tried to incorporate some beer into the first course. I’ve made beer batter before but only ever for big chunks of fish and I usually […]
View Post beer and food, beer batter, beer recipe, beer recipes, BrewDog, IPAIt’s Friday and I thought I’d write about something a little bit different today, Coffee, It’s something I probably drink more of than beer and is another one of my passions, and while this is essentially a beer website, I’ve wanted to write about it for a while so here it is. Coffee just like […]
View Post BrewDog, coffee, coffee beer, MikkellerThis was probably Brewdog beer I was looking forward to the release of with most anticipation, those that know me or follow me on twitter will know that I’m just as obsessed with great coffee (usually from the excellent Hasbean) and everything chilli related (see my other blog) So given that AB:04 contained Hasbean coffee, […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, BrewDog, scottish beer, Strong beerWhen Brewdog first arrived on the scene I remember ordering their beers online and being blow away by how different they were, their branding was spot on and the beers tasted fab, Even the early tasting case I bought that had prototype bottles of what were to become Chaos Theory and Zeitgeist showed just how […]
View Post Beer Festival, BrewDog, scottish ale, WetherspoonsWhilst doing some shopping in Morrisons on Sunday I wandered down the beer aisle to see if they had got any new or interesting beers in, unfortunately this usually ends in disappointment as they rarely have anything new or exciting, the last one I remember was Sierra Nevada Pale Ale which they started stocking a […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, hoppy beer, morrisons, red beer, scottish beer, scottish red ale, Supermarket beer