When Beermerchants announced they were getting a pallet load of Mikkeller beers I found my self rather excited (some would say too excited), I’d not had any beer from Mikkeller since visiting the Great British Beer Festival a few months back and he is one of my favourite if not my favourite brewer. For those […]
View Post bottled beer, danish beer, IPA, lager, MikkellerAn 8% beer from Cumbria – yup you read that right, I know it’s quite a rarity for a high ABV beer to come out of Cumbria with only a few brave people like Hardknott Dave, Strigers Beer and the odd special from Keswick brewing anything other than ~4% “sesison beer”. Croglin Vampire from Cumbrian […]
View Post bottled beer, cumbrian beer, doppelbockThis Week’s Meet the Brewer comes from Rob Hill courtesy of @Highlandbrewlew on twitter! They make some fab ales and are great craic on twitter so please try their beers if you see them. What is your Brewery name? We have an identity crisis: the company is the Highland Brewing Company Ltd; the brewery is […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, Meet The Brewer, orkney, scottish ale, scottish beerAs well as the Whitby Beer festival this week also sees another local Beer festival at Redcar, It’s not been particularly well advertised hence this rather late post but here are the details for those of you that are close by. It starts on Thursday and runs through to Saturday, There is entertainment on each […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, redcar, yorkshireI had the following info through about Whitby Beer Festival, It’s a cracking time of year to visit Whitby if you’re not local and with over 100 beers on there’s bound to be something worth trying. Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th November 2010 Bar open 11am-11pm each day At The Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre […]
View Post Beer Festival, cask ale, whitbyJust wanted to wish Kelly (and Catherine) all the best for their big move back to the other side of the world, I hope it all goes well and the Gods of brewing smile upon you and help you find a new job.The UK Brewing scene and Twissup won’t be the same without you, your […]
View PostWhat is your brewery capacity? 500,000 barrels What is different about your brewery? The diversity of beers and packages we produce How long have you been brewing for? Gainfully about 33 years How did you get into brewing? Doing a degree in it at Heriot Watt What beers do you brew regularly? Lots but my […]
View Post cask ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, Yorkshire beerNow 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 Brewdog first arrived on the scene I remember ordering their beers online and being blow away by how different they were, their branding was spot on and the beers tasted fab, Even the early tasting case I bought that had prototype bottles of what were to become Chaos Theory and Zeitgeist showed just how […]
View Post Beer Festival, BrewDog, scottish ale, Wetherspoons