I’ve left it until the last minute to do these, mainly because I couldn’t make my mind up. Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer Hawkshead NZ Pale Ale – Truly delicious and stupidly drinkable. Second place goes to Summer Wine Nettle and Ginger Saison and Third goes to Hill Island ThaIPA. Best UK Bottled or […]
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The Captain Cook Inn are holding their annual Chrismas beer and pie festival, details are below Tuesday 27th – Friday 30th December Bar open 11am till midnight each day. The following ales will be served at The Cooks 4th Winter Warmers Fest. Okells, Red 4.7% Slaters, Blitzen 4.0% Idle, Santa 4.2% Copper Dragon, Christmas Classic […]
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I first met Pete from the Brew Company at Twissup in Sheffield, where he not only introduced me to his better half Liz who runs the Harlequinn pub in Sheffield but also to one of my now favourite tipples, Angostura 1919 rum. The Brew Company started brewing in 2007 after Pete left Cadbury’s and have […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our Brewery is called ‘The Big River Brewery’, we called it that because we’re right next to the River Humber and given that it drains something in the order of 1/3 of the UK it seemed right to give a nod in that direction. […]
View PostHere’s @kempicus (from Buxton Brewer) Golden Pints for 2011 Best UK Draught (Cask or Keg) Beer: Marble Dobber Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer: Fullers 1845, close runner up Marble/Fullers Old Manchester Best Overseas Draught Beer: Bitburger Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: Yeastie Boys Rex Attitude, equal second Brewaucracy Pumpkin Image Inc and Epic […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? We are the Revolutions Brewing Company. The name is a reference to the revolutions of vinyl record-playing turntables. Before CDs and digital downloads music used to revolve at 33 and 45 rpm — and for those with longer memories, 78 rpm. Until the high […]
View Post cask ale, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire breweryThe 2009 and 2010 Golden Pint awards we’re a laugh and seemed to go down well so here’s this years list. It couldn’t be simpler, just fill in your answers to the categories below. You can do this in the comments on someone’s blog post, write them in your own blog or email them to […]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsI was going to write a huge post about what happened when Twissup hit Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, but to be honest, there’s been lots of great write-ups which you can read here, here, here, here , here and here (If I’ve missed your link stick it in the comments at the bottom) So […]
View Post Beer bloggers, bottled beer, cask beer, newcastle, TwissupWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The XT Brewing Company. Prize if you can work out where the name comes from. What is your brewery capacity? We have a 15 barrel plant. What is different about your brewery? I want to make beers that are really accessible. It is annoying […]
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