I’ve just been sent the beer list from Harlepool Beer Festival so thought I would share it with everyone, there are some great Beers on there. It’s ran by Hartlepool Round Table and takes place at Hartlepool Borough Hall on the Headland, It runs from Friday 15th to Saturday 16th October, ther’s live music on […]
View Post Beer Festival, hartlepool, northern beerToday’s Meet The Brewer comes from a brewery I am really fond of, they make some interesting and exciting ales and are regulars in a lot of the pubs where we end up after walking. Roosters Brewery name is because it is natural, male like most of our customers were when the brewery opened, and […]
View Post brewery, Meet The Brewer, real ale, uk beer, yorkshire, Yorkshire beerMy Antonia was something I had started to hear whispers about on twitter and from other beer bloggers so when My Brewery Tap offered to send me a bottle I snapped Rich’s hand off. I also drank it pretty much straight away but with one thing and another it’s taken me ages to get round […]
View Post american beer, coninually hopped, hops, IPA, italian beer, pilsnerSome of you will know that a couple of weeks ago I walked from Coast to Coast, St Bees Head on the West coast to Robin Hoods Bay on the East coast. It involved over 192 miles of walking in 13 days, but this is a beer blog so you probably don’t want to know […]
View Post ale, coast to coast, hiking, local beers, pub crawl, pubs, walkingIn the recent Cask Report it mentioned about the importance of social media and an online presence for breweries and licensees and while I agree that it’s a very important (I’m a web developer by trade) tool it’s still seems that most breweries in the UK don’t consider the Internet an important medium and if […]
View Post breweries, cask report, facebook, twitterToday saw the release of the National Cask Ale Report 2010-2011. The report is written by Pete Brown and reports on the latest trends in the beer and pub market, It’s choc full of facts and figures and is well worth a read. I digested most of it over my first cuppa of the day […]
View Post ale, Beer, british beer, cask ale, drinking, english ale, pubsA few weeks ago I received something a little bit different in the post, these came in the shape of Beer Savers, Beer Savers are little silicone bottle caps that are designed to fit onto beer bottles keeping your beer fresh and fizzy. I’ve seen all sorts of stoppers and caps before but never anything like these, […]
View PostWe now have a plan for the Manchester and Huddersfield Twissup (the joint visit was the winner) thanks to Dominic from Marble Brewery and Rich from myBrewerytap. We meet at Manchester Piccadilly train station at 11.30am. From here we’ll go to Marble Brewery for a tour with Dominic and Colin and then to the Marble […]
View Post huddersfield, manchester, marble, TwissupWe”ll that’s it I’m back I’ve successfully walked from one side of the country to the other, had a fantastic time, drank some great beer and met some fantastic people. Normal beer bloggery will resume shortly so if there is anything you would like to see or if you know a brewer for the meet […]
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