It’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing, Meet the Brewer – this week it is the turn of Dan Baxter from Abbeydale in Sheffield, I last drank one of their beers on Twissup and it was very good indeed. So over to Dan to fill you in.. What is your brewery capacity? We […]
View Post local ale, locale, Meet The Brewer, Sheffield beers, TwissupTally Ho is a limited edition Barley wine style beer, brewed at Adnams since 1880. It’s traditionally a Christmas beer which is brewed in October in limited quantities. I was very kindly sent my bottle of Tally Ho by Sean at Adnams who offered to send everyone involved in Beer Swap a bottle to try. […]
View Post Adnams, barley wine, Beer Swap, real ale, strong ale, winter aleI recently found out about this beer festival via twitter and Teesside Hospice kindly sent me the press release as well as the beer list so I thought I would show our support for a worthy cause by posting it on here! I hope if you are in the local area you will attend one […]
View Post Beer Festival, local ale, locale, middlesbrough, teesside hospice, Yorkshire AleIt’s been a very long time since I’ve visited the Woolpack Inn, deep in the Lake District, In fact I’m not even sure Dave and Ann were there when I last went. But after previously meeting them both a few times we decided that we had to visit the pub. We set off from a […]
View Post beer tasting, cumbria, lake district, localale, woolpack dave, woolpack innThis week’s Meet The Brewer, comes from north of the border where James Watt from BrewDog has kindly taken time out from his world domination plans and fishing to complete our little feature. Like many of the things BrewDog do this is likely to divide opinion so if you have any thoughts please leave them […]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, james watt, Meet The Brewer, scottish ale, Strong beerBitter End Brewing Co weren’t a brewery I had heard of until I got a bottle in my My Brewery Tap case and then was very kindly sent some of their other beers to sample. I was quite surprised that I’d not heard of them as we spend a lot of time in the Lake District, […]
View Post bottled ale, English IPA, IPA, lake district, lakeland ales, my brewery tap, real aleThis is the first a a new series called meet the publican where we grill a publican in the hope that we learn something new about them and their pub. This edition is Liz Aspden. What is the name of your pub and where is it? The Harlequin, Sheffield. We’re part of Sheffield’s (in)famous valley […]
View Post brew pubs, landlady, landlord, local pubs, Meet The Publican, sheffieldThere’s been a lot of talk recently (especially last night) about drinkability of beers and according to Dom from Marble it’s a hot topic between brewers at the moment. It seems to have different meanings depending on who you are listening to. Some say it’s a way justifying a boring beer, other say it’s a sign […]
View Post drinkable beers, IPA, session aleIt had been a while since I had Morrissey Fox‘s Blonde, mainly because I remember it being a bit a bit boring, but when I saw the Brunette I thought I’d give the Blonde another chance and do a side by side tasting. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Morrissey Fox, they started […]
View Post bitter ale, blonde ale, brunette, local ale, locale, Morrissey Fox, Yorkshire Ale