My Antonia was something I had started to hear whispers about on twitter and from other beer bloggers so when My Brewery Tap offered to send me a bottle I snapped Rich’s hand off. I also drank it pretty much straight away but with one thing and another it’s taken me ages to get round […]
View Post american beer, coninually hopped, hops, IPA, italian beer, pilsnerWhile I was at The Great British Beer Festival, Dave, otherwise known a HardknottDave very kindly gave me a bottle of his latest brew, Infra Red. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Hardknott Brewery, They started off brewing up at the Woolpack Pub in Boot, then Dave and Ann sold the pub […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, english beer, English IPA, IPA, red beer, red ipa, usa ipaToday saw the exciting announcement that Chaos Theory has been re-released by Brewdog after much nagging by the online community and beery types around the world Brewdog have brought back what is probably my favourite beer that they have ever made…well until I tried the recent collaboration with Mikkeller – I Hardcore You, which I […]
View Post Beer, bottled beer, BrewDog, IPA, scottish aleLast year I was lucky enough to get my hands on a box of Thornbridge’s marvellous Halcyon for the bargain price of £1 a bottle, After that Halcyon was hard to track down and disappeared from my life. That was until Rich from My Brewery Tap very kindly sent me a bottle of the new […]
View Post derbyshire, english ale, English IPA, IPA, my brewery tap, ThornbridgeI have written this post to commemorate a momentus occasion, my local Morrisons has now started selling Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, well actually I started writing this post to celebrate it but that was over a month ago now and in the meantime Aldi decided to sell a who load of this luscious stuff for £1.29. Some […]
View Post american ale, american beer, IPA, pale ale, USAWell I can’t hide the monkey of disappointment riding my back as I write this. To have received a country that has absolutely no chance of winning the tournament and one which is now without doubt the most prolific and innovative brewing nation in the world. Finding an American beer wasn’t going to be a […]
View Post american beer, beer and football, football, football beer, IPA, USA, world cup, world cup beerThis week’s Meet The Brewer Comes from one of the stars of the recent Beer Tickers film and who has even had a beer named after him, its none other than Dave Unpronounceable from Steel City Brewing. What is different about your brewery? Mainly that we don’t have one! We are what is known in […]
View Post hops, IPA, sheffield beer, sheffiled brewingThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me which is great as that’s the whole point of Beer Swap. The first thing that jumps out about Goat’s Leap is the label, I think it’s great, I love the […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, Bottle conditioned, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, English IPA, IPA, real aleI first came across Moor JJJ IPA when I was talking to Phil from Beermerchants, he mentioned he was getting some in and that it was a strong IPA from one of his local breweries, He was pretty excited about being able to sell it on the site, and quite rightly so, it’s not sold […]
View Post beermerchants, english ale, IPA, kent ale, moor beerI’ve been a fan of Worthington White Shield for some time now, even more so after a visit to the brewery and meeting Steve Wellington during Twissup does Burton Upon Trent. White Shield is one of those iconic beers that just about every beer drinker has heard of if not tried. It’s one of, if […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, burton upon trent, english ale, IPA, pale ale, real ale