If you are looking for a Christmas gift for the beer lover who has everything then why not try a Zap Cap? The Guys over at Zap-cap.com very kindly sent me over a top of the range Stainless steel Zap Cap to try out. For those of you who haven’t seen one a Zap Cap […]
View Post beer gadget, bottle opener, Zap capYes, before you say it I know this is a beer blog, but the nice people over at Freshcase were kind enough to offer me a couple of packs of their wine in it’s new fangled boxes so I thought I would return the favour with a bit of a write up, and as a […]
View Post freshcase, hardys, nottage hill, wineIn a kind of follow up to my drinking habits post last week, as I noticed in the news this morning that the NHS have brought out a phone app that helps you keep track of your alcohol intake. The following was taken from here : The Department of Health has announced that people can […]
View Post Beer drinking, beer habits, christmas cheer, nhsThis was meant to be similar to my Thornbridge Jaipur post, in that I wanted to compare cask Halcyon to bottled Halcyon, I was all set for the battle but due to Beer Festival Fail, I didn’t get chance to try the cask Halcyon. As it happens Beer merchants recently reduced some bottles of Halcyon […]
View Post english ale, green hopped, hoppy beer, IPA, real ale, Strong beerThe guys over at Brewdog have done it again, just when you think they might be starting to get things a bit wrong they go and confuse you. I can’t make my mind up on the latest news about their new beer Tactical Nuclear Penguin, it is the worlds strongest beer at a whopping 32% […]
View Post BrewDog, Stout, strong aleI’d been trying to track this beer down for a while, but the problem was the only places I could find it were places that sold it in cases of 12 and as I wasn’t sure if I would like it I had always put off buying it. Then the very kind guys over at […]
View Post Adnams, eco friendly beer, english ale, Green Beer, IPATimothy Taylor’s Landlord is possibly one of most well known beers from Yorkshire and has been around since the year dot, It also happens to be one of my favourite beers and one of those beers that I can’t decide if I prefer it on cask or in bottles. Last night we went to Vista […]
View Post english ales, local ales, Timothy Taylor, Yorkshire beerIf you are reading this then the beers I sent have reached their destination. This post is in place of the letter that was meant to go in with my beer swap parcel, I did write one I just forgot to put it in – along with a rather tasty bar of chilli chocolate i […]
View PostDrinking habits of the nation are often discussed, in the media and on blogs so i thought I would jump on the bandwagon and discuss my own drinking habits. Because I have a rather large beer cupboard, spend a lot of time talking and blogging about beer, and on a Friday i usually tweet about […]
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