I first came across Doctor Okells IPA in the summer, when I bought some when in the Lake District, after trying it when we got home I wished I had bought more, then a few months ago when I was looking in the cheapo shop’s in town I saw that home bargains were selling it […]
View Post english ale, IPA, Okells, real aleThis was meant to be similar to my Thornbridge Jaipur post, in that I wanted to compare cask Halcyon to bottled Halcyon, I was all set for the battle but due to Beer Festival Fail, I didn’t get chance to try the cask Halcyon. As it happens Beer merchants recently reduced some bottles of Halcyon […]
View Post english ale, green hopped, hoppy beer, IPA, real ale, Strong beerI’d been trying to track this beer down for a while, but the problem was the only places I could find it were places that sold it in cases of 12 and as I wasn’t sure if I would like it I had always put off buying it. Then the very kind guys over at […]
View Post Adnams, eco friendly beer, english ale, Green Beer, IPABrewsters Bundle was in one of the gift packs that Hogs Back Kindly sent me, I have already reviewed A over T and T.E.A and like so many other beers it has a story behind it… Brewsters Bundle was brewed to celebrate the birth of one of the brewer’s daughters. It weighs in at a […]
View Post barley wine, english ale, Hogs Back Brewery, real ale, strong aleThis is one of those beers you that if you read the various blogs and tweets then you will no doubt have seen, well you are in for yet more about it as it is just too good a beer to leave off any self respecting beer blog. Jaipur is brewed buy those very clever […]
View Post english ale, English IPA, IPA, ThornbridgeIn anticipation of my trip down to the brewery to deliver some of my Chilli Up North Chillis to Stu and give him a hand in brewing Ring of Fire beer, I thought I would review another one of Crown’s beers (i’ve already done U.I.P.A , Wheetie Bits and the previously mentioned chilli beer Ring […]
View Post Crown Brewery, english ale, real ale, Stout, wheat beer, Wheat StoutA friend of Beer Reviews from twitter and a participent in the up and coming #beerswap @richardmackney has posted a great little article on his blog about his day brewing with the guys at his local microbrewery, it’s a wicked little post so thought I would share it with you incase you don’t already follow […]
View Post Brewing beer, english ale, local ales, micro brewery, nutbrook breweryYou may have already seen on twitter and on Mark Dredge’s Website that there is something called The Big Blogger Beer Swap going on, if not you can read all about it on his website. Myself and Mark from Real Ale Reviews decided to give it a “trial run” so i thought I would leave […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ale, local ales