On our recent trip to Belgium one of my favourite meals was pork ribs cooked in Kriek and served with a huge bowl of salty, crispy skinny fries and mayo, It was delicious so I’ve re created the flavours using pork shoulder and my slow cooker. It’s really easy and you can choose to leave […]
View Post beer and food, cherry beer, cooking with beer, Fruit BeerA couple of weeks ago I received a press release along with a bottle of both Melville’s Strawberry Beer and their Raspberry Beer. Melville’s is a new arm of Innis & Gunn and is the brainchild of Douglal Sharp who wanted to show off what he called some of the best fruit in the world and create […]
View Post Fruit Beer, Melville's beer, raspberry beer, Strawberry BeerWhen Brewdog and Stone released Bashah way back in 2009 I was a big fan It was a genuinely interesting beer, so when they announced they were releasing two reserve versions which had fruit added I knew I had to have them. It came in two forms Bashah 2009 Highland Park and Black Raspberry Reserve and Bashah […]
View Post bottled beer, Fruit Beer, open itThe very kind guys and girls over at R & R recently sent me a bottle of Liefmans Fruit beer, which I in turn gave to my other half as she loves her fruit beers. Liefmans’ Fruit is a new introduction to the Liefmans range. It is based on older brother Liefmans Cuvée Brut (formerly […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Fruit 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, WhitstableTimmermans Strawberry beer is something that i had never really taken seriously, mainly because it always thought it was a bit too sweet and as bad as it sounds, something Emily would order (she is very partial to a bit of fruit beer), so when i had the chance of trying some again* I decided […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Fruit Beer, Lambic Beer, Strawberry Beer, Timmermans