What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Hopcraft / Pixie Spring, it was bought as scrap from Iceni in Norfolk; it was in a terrible state and it took us 6 months to get it running again. What is your brewery capacity? Not easy to answer! the copper is 35 barrels, […]
View Post cask beer, hoppy beer, hops, kegged beer
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 […]
View Post cornish ale, cornish beer, hoppy beer, light ale, low abv
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 abvWhilst 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 beerOtley Brewing Company were another one of those breweries I had heard of but never seen in the wild or found anywhere to buy them when on my travels. I a strange twist of fate our local pub had some in a few months ago and my dad tried it then told me about it, unfortunately by […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, hoppy beer, otley brewing, pale ale, welsh beerThis 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 beerThis was another beer that i picked up from @beermerchants on twitter, along with a couple of their others, although after tasting this one i wish i had ordered some OOKS and the other couple that i didn’t plump for. The main thing that attracted me to this ale was actually the description on the […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, Gadds, hoppy beer, ramsgate