I first heard about Coniston IPA when Ian mentioned it in his Meet the Brewer and from his tweets on twitter I knew I had to try some. So on a camping trip a couple of weeks ago we decided to have a beery night in Coniston town I popped into the Black Bull for […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, lake district, lakeland ales, lakeland beerThis weeks Meet The Brewer comes from Jon over at Stringers Beer (or Stringers – no apostrophe), who are based over in beautiful Cumbria and make some cracking beers. They have some great branding and their casks are bright yellow and purple so what’s not to like! What is your brewery capacity? A minuscule 11 […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, cumbrian beer, lake district, lakeland ales, Meet The BrewerLakeland Blonde was one of the beers I was very kindly sent by Bitter End Brewing Co and My Brewery Tap, it was the second of their beers I tried after the Lakeland IPA which I thought was rather tasty. Lakeland Blonde weighs in a little bit lighter than the Lakeland IPA at 4.2%, It is […]
View Post bitter end, blonde ale, lakeland ales, locale, my brewery tapBitter End Brewing Co weren’t a brewery I had heard of until I got a bottle in my My Brewery Tap case and then was very kindly sent some of their other beers to sample. I was quite surprised that I’d not heard of them as we spend a lot of time in the Lake District, […]
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