This weeks Meet the brewer comes from a brewery just up the road from me The Captain Cook Brewery in Stokesley and from Matt Power (soon to be Truefitt) so here goes. What is your brewery capacity? These are exciting times for the brewery, we recently started to brew 4x4BBL instead of 3, we are […]
View Post captain cook, north yorkshire, northern beer, stokesley beer, Yorkshire beerBefore Christmas the very kind guys over at Stringers Beer sent me a couple of bottles of their ales to try, The first of which was Stringers IPA. The first thing that impressed me was the branding, it’s really bold and striking, it’s also really clean and simple, so much so it’s sat on the […]
View Post amarillo, cumbria, cumbrian beer, English IPA, IPA, lakeland beerI said last week that I was going to try and blog about something different on a Friday for a bit, I’ve got a couple of posts lined up, well this week is something I’ve not done before and something that Scoop has been trying to get me to take part in for a while, […]
View PostIt’s that time of the month again when the Wikio ratings get released to one lucky blogger. This month there has been some huge changes most notably with the excellent Beer Monkey shooting up a massive 49 places to number 4 and the Wine Conversation leapfrogging Beer Reviews into 5th place, another huge jump of 28 places. […]
View Post beer blogs, uk beer bloggers, wikioSome big news in the world of UK Brewing is that after recently re launching the White Sheild Brewery, Molson Coors have aquired the Award winning Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall. When I first read the title I was suprised…infact it made me swear out loud, but after reading the press release It sounds like a […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, coors, cornish beer, molson coors, sharp'sLast night I went to the Saltaire meet the brewer evening at my local Weatherspoons, On offer there were 5 different beers on offer and a chance to chat to Tony from Saltaire. We arrived just after 19:30 and the pub was already quite busy, It looked as if quite a lot of people were […]
View PostIt’s Friday and I thought I’d write about something a little bit different today, Coffee, It’s something I probably drink more of than beer and is another one of my passions, and while this is essentially a beer website, I’ve wanted to write about it for a while so here it is. Coffee just like […]
View Post BrewDog, coffee, coffee beer, MikkellerThis week’s meet the brewer comes from the depths of lovely Yorkshire and a brewery who’s beers I’ve been drinking for as long as I can remember. What is your brewery capacity? 420 UK Barrels a week What is different about your brewery? We are able to brew both traditional English ales and Continental style […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, copper dragon, Meet The Brewer, yorkshire, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beerJust before Christmas the legendary gent that is Stuart Howe from Sharp’s (you may know him from the Hugh and Oz raise the bar program that was on the BBC or as the fella who made beer with offal) sent me a bottle of a beer that in his own words he described as SUBLIME […]
View Post bottled beer, cornish beer, lager, orval, saaz, sharp's