This 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, localeI’m sat here, writing this with a slightly very fuzzy head, which can only mean one thing: there was plenty of great beer at the Big Beer Fest in Middlesbrough last night (or Saturday night if I don’t publish this until Monday). The festival was in aid of Teesside Hospice and was the first beer […]
View Post Beer Festival, Beer festivals, english ale, local ale, locale, middlesbrough, teesside hospiceNext up in our Meet the Publican series is Matt from Northbar, A bar which I first encountered on the Sunday after Twissup, where their hunk of bread and cheese helped line our stomach’s for the day ahead. So over to Mat for more info. What is the name of your pub and where is […]
View Post locale, Meet The Publican, north bar leeds, TwissupHere’s the announcement you have all been waiting for, it’s time for Beer Swap: Part Deux, unlike Hot Shots, we are unlikely to have Charlie Sheen or any big Hollywood stars but we do have @markdredge and lots of other bloggers/tweeters. First, Beer Swap. The ‘let’s send each other beers we can’t get near us […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, local beer, locale, TwissupDead or Alive is brewed by Roosters as part of their experimental arm, “Outlaw”. I am quite a big fan of Roosters as we see their beers around here quite a lot, nearly always on cask…in fact until I went to Beer Ritz in Leeds I hadn’t seen Roosters beer in bottles. When Zak explained […]
View Post beer ritz, IPA, local ale, locale, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beer, zak averyLakeland 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 tapIt’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing, Meet the Brewer – this week it is the turn of Dan Baxter from Abbeydale in Sheffield, I last drank one of their beers on Twissup and it was very good indeed. So over to Dan to fill you in.. What is your brewery capacity? We […]
View Post local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, Sheffield beers, TwissupI recently found out about this beer festival via twitter and Teesside Hospice kindly sent me the press release as well as the beer list so I thought I would show our support for a worthy cause by posting it on here! I hope if you are in the local area you will attend one […]
View Post Beer Festival, local ale, locale, middlesbrough, teesside hospice, Yorkshire AleIt had been a while since I had Morrissey Fox‘s Blonde, mainly because I remember it being a bit a bit boring, but when I saw the Brunette I thought I’d give the Blonde another chance and do a side by side tasting. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Morrissey Fox, they started […]
View Post bitter ale, blonde ale, brunette, local ale, locale, Morrissey Fox, Yorkshire Ale