What is your brewery capacity? 15 hl brewhouse from BTB, Germany What is different about your brewery? Matching 15hl brewhouse with 10 and 20 hl fermenters, oh, and a whirlpool manhole that is facing a wall, with about a foot of space in between. Not sure if anyone ever went in there, certainly not me. […]
View PostGreat British Beer Festival
This week will be a bit quieter than usual on Beer Reviews as I’m off to the Great British Beer Festival tomorrow. I’ll be back later in the week when there will be a new meet the brewer feature to read along with how I got on at GBBF. Keep an eye on twitter with […]
View PostBeer Bread Recipe
I’ve been making this bread for a while now, I can’t remember where the recipe came from but it recently won me some beer from Bristol Beer Factory so thought I had better post it on here. There is also an excellent recipe by the hair bikers for Newcastle Brown Ale and cheese bread on […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipe, food and beer, recipeBeer at £12 a pint? In a pub? In London?
I just recieved the following press release regarding a pint of beer that costs £12 in the White Horse in London, The full press release can be seen below but It got me wondering what the most you have paid or would be willing to pay for a pint of beer in a pub is??? […]
View Post american beer, london, london beer, US beer, USAMeet The Brewer: John Keeling (Fuller, Smith and Turner)
This week’s Meet the Brewer comes from a legend of the brewing world John Keeling from Fullers. I remember Fullers ESB being one of the first proper ales I drank, and to this day my Fullers ESB glass is still one of my favourite drinking vessels. What is your brewery capacity? Around 280,000 barrels per […]
View PostCoors Light in Home Draught
When we were at Twissup in Burton Upon Trent, Kristy kept mentioning that she was going to revolutionise the way people drank “beer” at home. None of us quite knew what to expect but were all secretly hoping that it involved White Shield and P2. A couple of weeks later a package arrived on my […]
View Post coors, home draught, lager, molson coorsThornbridge Halcyon 2009 Harvest (7.7%)
Last 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, ThornbridgeSlow cooked gammon in Old Rosie cider
I know this post doesn’t have beer in, nor does it have a proper picture, It does however involve a bottle of cider (including a very brief “review” but I just had to share this recipe with you. I saw it in a slow cooker book in the cheap bookshop in town so i thought […]
View Post apple, beer and food, cider, recipe, westonsWhat is the most outrageous beer you have ever had?
With the announcement yesterday from Brewdog that they had released a 55% beer encased in a stuffed squirel or stoat It got me wondering as to what the most outrageous beer everyone had ever tried? or even the most outrageous place you have drank a beer? What made it so outrageous? Would you drink it […]
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