Next up in our meet the brewer feature is Fergus Fitzgerald from Adnams, For those of you who haven’t heard of Adnams, they are based in Southwold and do a cracking range of beers, they also run a selection of hotels and even do wine – yes wine! So over to Fergus for more about […]
View Post Adnams, english ale, Green Beer, Meet The Brewer, real aleGadds are a brewery I tried a few times during 2009 so when I opened by Beer Swap parcel and found a bottle of the black pearl I was over the moon, especially as it wasn’t one I’d had before and I had really enjoyed Gadds No.3, Dogbolter and Ancestors (reviews coming soon). Black Pearl […]
View Post blogger beer swap, english ale, Gadds, real aleWhitstable Oyster Stout was the 2nd of the Whitstable beers that Pete sent as part of Beer (but you already gathered that from the title) Just like the Raspberry Wheat this one came in a 330ml bottle with the same picture on, which as I said before I really liked, so I was pleased to see […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, real ale, Stout, WhitstableJust before Christmas I posted about the Winter warms, pale ales, pork pies and porters festival at The Captain Cook Inn, in Staithes, Emily offered to play chofur provided we were back for her to bring her horse in. For those of you who don’t know the Captain Cook Inn, It’s a cracking little pub […]
View Post Beer Festival, english ale, local aleI’ve decided to publish number 3 in our Meet the Brewer series a little early this week, anyone would think it was Christmas!I first came across Great Heck Brewing on Twitter and wanted to find out a bit more about them so was pleased when Denzil agreed to join in with Meet the Brewer. So […]
View Post english ale, great heck, local ale, Meet the brwer, real ale, Yorkshire beerWhitstable Raspberry Wheat Beer was another of the Beer Swap beers sent by Pete. I’ll be honest and until the beers arrived, I had not heard of Whitstable brewery, so as is usually the case with new things, I headed off to Google and ended up on the Whitstable brewery website, which told me they are […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Fruit Beer, Kent, wheat beer, WhitstableWhat is your Brewery name? Thornbridge Brewery – We have two sites running at the moment, our Hall Brewery and Riverside Brewery What is your brewery capacity? The Hall Brewery has a 10 bbl brewlength and the Riverside Brewery has a 30 bbl brewlength. We have 60 barrels of fermentation capacity at the Hall and […]
View Post english ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, ThornbridgeLast week together with Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and Fletcher (from real ale reviews) we launched the Golden Pint Awards (not the new jazzy logo thanks to robsterowski) so I thought it was about time I filled in the categories my self, It’s taken me ages to decide on some of the categories […]
View Post american beer, beer blogger awards, english ale, Golden Pints, real aleLeviathan was the last of the trio of Hopdaemon beers that Pete sent as part of Beer Swap, I had enjoyed the other two (Skrimshander and Green Daemon Hellas) so to say I was looking forward to this was an understatement, the description on the bottle and on the Hopdaemon website sounded right up my […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, Hopdaemon, Kent, kentish hopsHopdaemon’s beers were something I had heard a little bit about, mainly through twitter and the various beer blog’s so when my proper beer swap beers arrived and I opened them up to find that my beer swapper, @petebrissenden brewer at Hopdaemon had included some of his beers along with some other local brews I was […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, English IPA, Hopdaemon, IPA