Just before St Patricks Day this bottle arrived wrapped in a Jiffy bag, quite how it survived the post I’m not entirely sure but it did and a few days later it ended up in my glass. As far as I’m aware it’s the first time the Innis & Gunn have brewed a stout and […]
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Bristol Beer Factory have recently announced (well recently when I started writing this post) they are going to brew another 12 Stouts of Christmas, which is great news, it also reminded me that I’d not written about the first 12 so here goes. Myself and @davelozman had planned on splitting the 12 stouts over one night but after […]
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A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a […]
View Post bottled beer, real ale, Stout, york, Yorkshire beerThose of you that follow me on twitter will know this is the beer I rounded off day 3 of Open It with, It was so good I’ve decided to write about it first and write the other two beers up later. I picked this bottle up from GBBF 2010 and it’s been sat in […]
View Post bottled beer, coffee beer, danish beer, hornbeer, Imperial Stout, StoutHere’s another one of the delicious recipes that was entered into the cooking with beer competition it’s from @rickfurzer who describes him self as a Beer drinker, whisky freak & wine lover. A booze & food glutton who cooks quite a bit. Which is probably why this recipe sounds so good. Unfortunately there isn’t a […]
View Post beef, beer and food, beer casserole, beer recipe, slow cooker, StoutNow that the nights have drawn in and the weather has got cooler, I start to fancy darker, richer food as a result the slow cooker gets more of a hammering that usual. My beer tastes also start to change, I move onto the more autumnal, darker fruity beers such as stouts and porters, that’s […]
View Post beer recipes, bottled ale, StoutWhen Mark paired me with Nigerian in the World Cup Beer Sweepstake I immediately knew I could get Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, or at least a version of it that is actually brewed in Nigeria, I also thought I would see what other drinking delights came out of Nigeria so I set about a journey […]
View Post beer and football, Guinness, nigeria, Stout, world cup, world cup beerThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me and it was another of Andrew’s own ales. Again like the IPA it came without a label, which in some ways is pretty cool as you don’t quite know what […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, bristol beer, milk stout, real ale, StoutI first encountered Stannington Stout when I visited Crown Brewery to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. Although by the time I drank it I may have been a little worse for wear, I did however enter “Lovely roast almost smokey flavour” to my phone. So when Stu sent me some that he had bottled […]
View Post Crown Brewery, dark beer, sheffiled beer, StoutAcorn is a brewery that’s beer is available on cask quite regularly round these parts as they are based just down the road in Barnsley, having said that we don’t see them in bottles very much, if at all, mainly because we are lacking any sort of decent bottle shop. I came across Gorlovka, or […]
View Post Acorn, Barnsley, english ale, english ales, Imperial Stout, Stout, Yorkshire Ale