It’s Thursday, It’s lunchtime, It’s Meet The Brewer. This week we have Pete Brissenden from Hopdaemon. Pete is a top guy and he makes some great beers and for a skinny lad from down south he can certainly handle his beer, although there was one point during the aftermath of Twissup where his brain did […]
View Post Hopdaemon, Kent, kentish hops, Meet The BrewerSt Patrick’s Day holds many a fond memory for me, firstly it was my late Nanna’s birthday, surprisingly it’s one birthday I never forget and make sure I always raise a glass to her. Secondly it St Patrick’s Day and the weekend either side of it has been the scene for some epic student drinking […]
View Post english ale, Guinness, irish ale, St Georges day, St Patrick's dayBarngates Brewery is a brewery a I first came across a few years back when I was in the Lake District, looking for a few beers to take back to our tent, the shop had a few bottled beers all by Barngates so I bought one of each. This was long before I started blogging […]
View PostThis post has been sat here waiting to be completed for quite some time now but I recently found a bottle of Cornish IPA at the back of the beer cupboard, which as it happened needed drinking and in turn prompted me to finish this blog post. I first came across Cornish IPA when I […]
View Post cornish ale, english ale, IPA, Marks and SpencerDead or Alive is brewed by Roosters as part of their experimental arm, “Outlaw”. I am quite a big fan of Roosters as we see their beers around here quite a lot, nearly always on cask…in fact until I went to Beer Ritz in Leeds I hadn’t seen Roosters beer in bottles. When Zak explained […]
View Post beer ritz, IPA, local ale, locale, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beer, zak averyIt’s that time of week again where we harras a brewer to fill in our questionnaire for Meet The Brewer, This week the email headed way up across the border to Scotland and to the Harvistoun Brewery, where it was filled in by non other than Head Brewer Stuart Cail. Harviestoun are one of my […]
View Post harviestoun, Meet The Brewer, real ale, scottish aleLakeland Blonde was one of the beers I was very kindly sent by Bitter End Brewing Co and My Brewery Tap, it was the second of their beers I tried after the Lakeland IPA which I thought was rather tasty. Lakeland Blonde weighs in a little bit lighter than the Lakeland IPA at 4.2%, It is […]
View Post bitter end, blonde ale, lakeland ales, locale, my brewery tapNext up in our Meet The Publican series we have Glyn Roberts from The Rake, Borough Market, London. I’ve not yet had the pleasure of going to the rake but I have heard many a good thing said about it (not just by Glyn ;op ) What sort of community/clientel does your pub serve? All […]
View Post ale house, bar, london, Meet The PublicanScapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn’t a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in brewing it but the […]
View Post Highland brewing, orkney ale, real ale, scottish ale