I recently acquired this beer from my dad, who was passing the Hambleton Brewery, I knew they bottled ales for other breweries after a recent tour there, however I didn’t realise they also sold them from their shop. As neither my dad or myself had heard of Bowland before we thought we would try a […]
View PostYour top 10 beers (Friday Frivolity)
I thought i would start a bit of Friday frivolity on the Beer Blog website today and ask people for their top 10 beers of all time, i know it’s been done before but i thought it would be a nice easy introduction to what will hopefully become a regular bit of fun on the […]
View Post BrewDog, english ales, Mikkeller, saltaire, Thornbridge, top 10 beersGadds No.3 (5.2%)
This was another beer that i picked up from @beermerchants on twitter, along with a couple of their others, although after tasting this one i wish i had ordered some OOKS and the other couple that i didn’t plump for. The main thing that attracted me to this ale was actually the description on the […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, Gadds, hoppy beer, ramsgateHogs Back A over T (9.0%)
This was one of the beers kindly sent over by @hogsbackbrewery. It was the only one out of the selection they sent that I had previously tried so I thought i would share it at the Beer bloggers day out. The bottle is gives a very upmarket feel, especially with the cool gold CAMRA cap […]
View Post A over T, english ales, Hogs Back BreweryA beery good day out
Sunday saw the 2nd Beer Blog authors “meet up”. The sun was shining and the beers were calling us, so off we headed to the first, and only stop, the Star in Middlesbrough, Recently refurbished and with a good reputations for well kept real ales and tasty food. Dan was waiting outside with a pint […]
View Post Eisbock, GCB, Good cheer beer, Ossett Brewing, Ossett Pale Gold, Pale Gold, The StarHogs Back Brewery
The guys over at Hogs Back brewery kindly sent me over a selection of their ales to try, the reviews will be on here very soon, in the meantime here is a bit about them from their website. The Hogs Back Brewery is an independent brewery based in Tongham, Surrey. Their flagship real ale, ‘TEA’ (Traditional English Ale), has […]
View Post english ales, Hogsback breweryCrown Brewery – Unpronounceable IPA (7%)
This was another of the beers in my mixed case from @crownbrewerstu on twitter. I remember reading the description for this ale as I was putting it onto a page of it’s own on their website, It read: This traditional golden IPA (7% ABV) is full flavoured packed with bitterness from the 5kg of Bramlin […]
View Post Crown Brewery, IPACrown Brewery Ring Of Fire (10.3%)
I recently did a quick favour for Stuart from Crown Brewery in Sheffiedand in return I ended up with a few of his ales, including something that excited me quite a lot – Ring of fire, a 10.3% Chilli beer. In case you didn’t know I’m also a bit of a chilli addict and run […]
View Post Chilli Beer, Crown Brewery, Ring of fire£1 Ale Taste Challenge
Firstly sorry for this being so long, I will try to review the ales individually in the future but… I was going to a family BBQ and I wanted some ales that wouldn’t break the bank but that would still deliver on flavour so I popped to morrisons to see what they had on offer. […]
View Post £1 ales, brakspear bitter, cusquena, holts humdinger, Humdinger, marston's burton bitter, morrisons, piddle in the hole, supermarket