Recenlty the lovely @ginsoak and @the_brew_co took over the Harlequin Pub in Sheffield, it’s certainly been keeping them busy and they have had their fair share of teething troubles (you can read about them here) but despite the lack of sleep and sit down meals they are battling on and have decided to put on […]
View Post Beer Festival, ginsoak, sheffield, sheffield beer, The Brew Co, The Brew Company, the harlequinWe’ve now got the plan for the day in Burton and we owe a million thank yous to Kristy for sorting it out for us. It’s a different day to Sheffield but I think it looks absolutely brilliant and at the end we can just carry on drinking wherever we want to or those who […]
View Post Beer bloggers, bloggers, burton upon trent, TwissupI recently ordered a couple of cases of Unpronounceable IPA from My Brewery Tap, Stu being the gent he is, kindly slipped in a couple of unlabelled bottles of his new Wheat Beer for me to try. Before I drank and photographed them a little bit of Blue Peter magic was needed, I managed to […]
View Post crown brewer stu, Crown Brewery, german beer, Sheffield beers, weissbier, wheat beer, white beerBy now if you are taking part in Beer Swap Part Deux, you should have had the email informing you of who you are sending beers too, if you haven’t then please check your spam folder, if it isn’t in there then please email beerswapuk@googlemail.com and let us know. Assuming you have received the email […]
View Post Beer bloggers, Beer Swap, beer swapping, Beerswap, bloggersI’ve wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog‘s Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge’s Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven’t actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long enough to compare them side by side. So with the arrival of my latest 52 week beer club I finally had both beers in […]
View Post Blind beer tasting, BrewDog, Crown Brewery, IPA, jaipur, punk, Thornbridge, uipa, unpronouncable IPAThis week’s Meet The Brewer comes from Steve at Durham Brewery, they are just up the road from me and they are one of my favourite breweries, they make some fanastic strong ales along with some pretty tasty session ales too. What is your brewery capacity? 10 barrel plant What is different about your brewery? […]
View Post Durham Brewery, english ale, local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, real aleI’m not entirely sure where I got Naylor’s Ginger Beer from but I found it in the beer cupboard when I was looking for something a little different, so decided to crack it open. Naylor’s Ginger Beer is part of their Brewers Choice range, this is a range of seasonal and one off beers that […]
View Post english ale, ginger ale, ginger beer, NaylorsSo we’ve (or more accurately Mark, although I’ve been busy too ;o) ) let this slip quietly on by with no action. The original closing date for Beer Swap was 28th March but we will extend that until Friday 9th (we will push the whole thing back a few weeks). We will then arrange who […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, TwissupFriday night we went out for a meal with a group of friends, it’s been planned for months now as it’s hard getting everyone together, not to mention getting a table at the pub/restaurant we wanted to go to. So it was really great when we turned up at The Board Inn in Lealholme and […]
View Post beer and food, Beer Festival, north yorkshire, Timothy Taylor