After a brief break in our Meet the brewer series, due to lots of busy brewers, we caught up with Brian Yorston from Wadworth and Co Ltd so here is what he had to say: What is your brewery capacity? About 100,000 brls per year or 160,000 Hl What is different about your brewery? All […]
View Post english beer, Meet The Brewer, real aleI’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 aleMy Beer Swap Part Deux beers arrived a couple of weeks ago now, Andrew over at Bristol Beer Factory was quick off the mark in sending them and they arrived packaged very well along with a little note telling me what the beers were, as they were all bottle conditioned I decided to put them […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, Bristol Beer Factory, english ale, English IPA, ipa. dry hopped, real aleI couple of weeks ago Fergus from Adnams sent me a couple of rather special bottles of beer. Until now i’ve not been able to talk about one of them so now the shackles are off I can spill the beans. The first of the two beers was Adnams Extra, this once award winning beer […]
View Post Adnams, beer samples, cask ale, cask ale week, fergus fitzgerald, real aleThis 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 aleThis week’s meet the brewer comes from way north of the border, Wil Wood from Fyne Ales took time out from brewing 5 times a week to complete our little questionnaire. Fyne Ales make some fine ales (see what I did there??) I’m quite partial to their Avalanche. So over to Wil to fill you […]
View Post Fyne Ales, real ale, scottish aleIt’s that time of week again where we harras a brewer to fill in our questionnaire for Meet The Brewer, This week the email headed way up across the border to Scotland and to the Harvistoun Brewery, where it was filled in by non other than Head Brewer Stuart Cail. Harviestoun are one of my […]
View Post harviestoun, Meet The Brewer, real ale, scottish aleScapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn’t a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in brewing it but the […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney ale, real ale, scottish aleTally Ho is a limited edition Barley wine style beer, brewed at Adnams since 1880. It’s traditionally a Christmas beer which is brewed in October in limited quantities. I was very kindly sent my bottle of Tally Ho by Sean at Adnams who offered to send everyone involved in Beer Swap a bottle to try. […]
View Post Adnams, barley wine, Beer Swap, real ale, strong ale, winter aleBitter 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, […]
View Post bottled ale, English IPA, IPA, lake district, lakeland ales, my brewery tap, real ale