I’ve just had the info and the beer list through for the next beer festival at a local(ish) pub, its a great little pub in a stunning seaside town just south of Whitby. I’m hoping to go on the Sunday for as I can’t make the other days due to taking up the chance to […]
View Post Beer festivals, Captain Cook Inn, english ales, local alesWhile many bloggers and beer folk were out supping ale with a certain doggy themed brewery who have announced their plans to allow fans to buy shares we had our own bit of excitement…. The test beer swap parcel has landed and in one piece too, the cheap delivery option cost £4 and was pretty […]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english alesA friend of Beer Reviews from twitter and a participent in the up and coming #beerswap @richardmackney has posted a great little article on his blog about his day brewing with the guys at his local microbrewery, it’s a wicked little post so thought I would share it with you incase you don’t already follow […]
View Post Brewing beer, english ale, local ales, micro brewery, nutbrook breweryBrewDog’s eagerly awaited plan to take over the world has been announced – It comes under the banner Equity for Punks. They are offerring 10,000 people the chance to buy shares at £230 for 1000 shares. It seems like a novel way of raising some cash and a better idea than going on the Dragons […]
View Post BrewDogI’ve basically just copied this post straight from Mark @ pencil and spoon – he writes far more eloquently than me and i’m in a lazy saturday morning mood, so i’ve put my comments in orange! so here are the plans for the big blogger beer swap. Awesome take up so far, reaching out to […]
View Post Beer Swap, english ales, local ales, pencil and spoonFollowing up from the £1 Ale Taste Challenge a few weeks ago I thought I would let you in on some of the ales i have been buying from the supermarkets over the week or two, not only have I found some absolute crackers I have manged to try/buy quite a few new ales. I […]
View Post Bargain Beer, beer cupboard, Belgian Beer, english ales, Supermarket beerTimmermans Strawberry beer is something that i had never really taken seriously, mainly because it always thought it was a bit too sweet and as bad as it sounds, something Emily would order (she is very partial to a bit of fruit beer), so when i had the chance of trying some again* I decided […]
View Post Belgian Beer, Fruit Beer, Lambic Beer, Strawberry Beer, TimmermansMoor’s was one of those breweries i had heard whispers about and something i had never managed to track down, Then a certain Internet purveyor of fine ales (who will be the cause of my divorce*) started stocking them, funnily enough around the time i was just about to order a few of the new […]
View Post english ales, IPA, Kent, Moor, Moor Somerland GoldYou may have already seen on twitter and on Mark Dredge’s Website that there is something called The Big Blogger Beer Swap going on, if not you can read all about it on his website. Myself and Mark from Real Ale Reviews decided to give it a “trial run” so i thought I would leave […]
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