A couple of days ago a bottle of Cobra and a bottle of Thornbridge Jaipur arrived in the post and went straight in the fridge and then last night a freshly baked Dominos Tandoori Hot pizza arrived just before 19:00. The pizza was swiftly shared and consumed with the beers, spot on it was too, […]
View Post beer and food, Cobra, jaipur, ThornbridgeLast year I was lucky enough to get my hands on a box of Thornbridge’s marvellous Halcyon for the bargain price of £1 a bottle, After that Halcyon was hard to track down and disappeared from my life. That was until Rich from My Brewery Tap very kindly sent me a bottle of the new […]
View Post derbyshire, english ale, English IPA, IPA, my brewery tap, ThornbridgeIt was the Sunday after Twissup does Burton Upon Trent and it was time for me to head home, fortunately my train ticket said I had to go via Sheffield so I had arranged to meet brewers extraordinaire Stuart from Crown Brewery and Kelly Ryan from Thornbridge along with the legend that Reluctant Scooper, we […]
View Post Crown Brewery, scooping, sheffield, Sheffield Tap, sunday drinking, Thornbridge, TwissupI’ve wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog‘s Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge’s Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven’t actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long enough to compare them side by side. So with the arrival of my latest 52 week beer club I finally had both beers in […]
View Post Blind beer tasting, BrewDog, Crown Brewery, IPA, jaipur, punk, Thornbridge, uipa, unpronouncable IPAIt seems like so long ago since I jumped on the train heading for Sheffield, but looking at the calendar it was only on Saturday, I can only put this down to either some sort of spacetime continum or a monumental hangover, which led to a couple of days of being dazed and confused. You […]
View Post beer blogger meet up, Crown Brewery, hillsborough hotel, marble, sheffield, Thornbridge, TwissupWhat is your Brewery name? Thornbridge Brewery – We have two sites running at the moment, our Hall Brewery and Riverside Brewery What is your brewery capacity? The Hall Brewery has a 10 bbl brewlength and the Riverside Brewery has a 30 bbl brewlength. We have 60 barrels of fermentation capacity at the Hall and […]
View Post english ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, ThornbridgeThis is one of those beers you that if you read the various blogs and tweets then you will no doubt have seen, well you are in for yet more about it as it is just too good a beer to leave off any self respecting beer blog. Jaipur is brewed buy those very clever […]
View Post english ale, English IPA, IPA, ThornbridgeI thought i would start a bit of Friday frivolity on the Beer Blog website today and ask people for their top 10 beers of all time, i know it’s been done before but i thought it would be a nice easy introduction to what will hopefully become a regular bit of fun on the […]
View Post BrewDog, english ales, Mikkeller, saltaire, Thornbridge, top 10 beersI’ve been saving this one for a special occasion as it’s not cheap and i had heard it was pretty special, well the special occasion came when England won the Ashes, they don’t come much more special than that. As much as i love lip smacking and tongue tingling hoppy beers i love dark rich […]
View Post Bracia, Stout, Thornbridge