A couple of saturday’s ago my self and @davelozman hopped on the train to Newcastle, to grab some lunch then hit a few pubs, well that was the plan anyway. We livened up the train journey by sharing a bottle of Raison d etre from Dog fish head and then a bottle of chaos theory […]
View Post cask ale, local ale, locale, newcastle, northern beer, TwissupAs I write this I’m sat on a mini bus, swaithed I’m blue florescent light, on the way home from the Old Mill Brewery in Snaith, Yorkshire. I’ll be honest, before I was asked if I wanted to join my dad and his colleagues on this trip I’d not even heard of this place. But now I’m […]
View Post brewery tour, cask ale, local ale, locale, yorkshireThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from a brewery I visited a couple of years ago, they make some delicious beers which are pretty easy to get hold of and quite often make an apperance in pubs round here. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Ossett Brewery, named after the […]
View Post cask ale, local ale, locale, Yorkshire beerThe White Swan in Stokesley home of the Captain Cook Brewery is having a Beer and Cheese festival over the Easter weekend, It starts on the 22nd and runs to the 25th. The White Swan is a fantastic little pub and Captain Cook make some very tasty beers, there will be some great beers on […]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, cask beer, local ale, localeI know Mark does FABPOW’s quite a lot and they are great, I thought I would have a punt at it this week after first coming across this pairing when camping in Northumberland a few weeks ago. We were on Holy Island and some how manged to choose a day to visit when most of […]
View Post Beer and food pairing, bitter, FABPOW, food and beer, local ale, localeAfter receiving some excellent beers from Richard Mackney (@Richardmackney) and getting some great feedback from my recipient Scott Edwards (@Edwards80) in Beer swap #1 there was no way I was going to miss out on Part Deux. Firstly I set about researching who I was sending too. I discovered that Billy Hall (@dad2dam2dum2mum) wasn’t overly […]
View Post beer blog, Beer Swap, beer swap part deux, local ale, localeI got an interesting message on facebook from one of they guys over at Cropton Brewery so thought I would share the details with you. Come and stay with us and learn how to brew your own beer. You will be taught about the brewing process, learn which malts and hops to choose to create […]
View Post brew your own beer, Brewday, Cropton, local ale, Yorkshire AleThis morning on my way out of the door i bumped into postman pat in his litte red van, he handed me a parcel that I wasn’t expecting, I put it in the footwell of my car and set off to work, quite excited as to what might be in it. On arrival at work […]
View Post Beer Swap, bristol ale, english ale, local ale, localeThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from Steve at Durham Brewery, they are just up the road from me and they are one of my favourite breweries, they make some fanastic strong ales along with some pretty tasty session ales too. What is your brewery capacity? 10 barrel plant What is different about your brewery? […]
View Post Durham Brewery, english ale, local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, real aleIf you haven’t already heard, this week is National Cask Ale Week which aims to get people celebrating the great British tradition of cask ale. Cask ale has been around for years and years and is currently having a bit of a resurgence, mainly due to the huge array of fantastic breweries, excentric brewers and […]
View Post cask ale, cask ale week, english ale, local ale, locale