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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A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an […]
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Sharp’s Brewery recently launched Cornish Pilsner, in collaboration with the Eden Project, for me It had a lot to live up to as I was a huge fan of Monsieur Rock that they brewed a while back and is now no longer available. For the Pilsner Head brewer Stuart Howe used whole Saaz hops and […]
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St Austell are a brewery I’ve admired for ages, but fell head over heels for when we were on honeymoon in Cornwall back in April. As you can imagine they have a lot of pubs in Cornwall and just about everywhere sells some of their beer. The St Austell pubs we visited were great, most of them […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Cornish Crown I have owned a pub in Penzance for 8 years called the Crown. I also like to have the word Cornish in the name as I am proud of where I live. I liked the name so much I registered the company in […]
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Where did your brewery name come from? Harbour Brewing Company. Rhys and I met in a pub in Padstow and decided we would open a brewery. The first thing we did was celebrate by drinking a few beers and deciding a name. It seemed a good idea to name ourselves after the place the idea […]
View Post cornish ale, cornish beer, hoppy beer, light ale, low abvSome 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'sJust 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 […]
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