Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the [...]
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It’s been strange old year, I’ve possibly not drank as many new beers or got out as much as I’d have liked, but I did get to brew a beer for my wedding with Roosters, help brew Truefitt’s 50th brew, spend the day in a michelan star kitchen then cook for them courtesy of Sharps [...]
View Post1) Best UK Draught (Cask Or Keg) Beer: Good grief, difficult indeed. India Pale Ale Scanners Brodie’s/Kernel Collaboration really blew me away. Runners up: RockStar (DarkStar/Magic Rock collaboration (both keg and cask were absolutely delicious and I simply want more of this beer), Sour Grapes (Lovibonds), such a wonderfully balanced sour beer. Jeff’s a wizard. [...]
View Post Beer Awards, Golden PintsThe previous years Golden Pint Awards have been a great success so here we go again for the 4th Year. Feel free to do a runner-up and a winner for each category (or some honourable mentions) and link to blog posts if you’ve written about winners before. For the open category you can choose whatever [...]
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Today sees the launch of the most comprehensive search for the best British beer of 2012. Now in its second year, the competition runs until the end of November 2012, with the winners announced in early December 2012. Other beer competitions in the UK require entry by the brewers. Not all beers are entered for [...]
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On Sunday 26th August Bacchus (42-48 High Bridge Street, Newcastle) are holding a Tap Takover by Tiny Rebel Brewery. Beers will include: Urban IPA Fubar Billabong Chocoholic Hadouken The Full Nelson Dirty Stop out There’s a hashtag of #tinrebelintoon on twitter and you can find out more by following both Bachhus and Tiny Rebel on [...]
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On Monday 30/07/2012 The Plimsoll Line will be holding a meet the brewer session with Saltaire brewery from 7pm. Saltaire beers available will be: Empress IPA (abv 5.0%) Tykes Gold (abv 4.4%) Raspberry Blonde (abv 4.0%) Elderflower Blonde (abv 4.0%) Five Rise Pale (abv 3.9%) In addition to these we will also have available Wall’s [...]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called [...]
View Post Beer Festival, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, northern beerBlaydon RFC is holding it’s yearly Beer and Music Festival starting on Friday 10th August 2012. Feedback from the two previous events has led to a complete makeover on the event this year: The venue will be a large Marquee with the benefits of having the event under one roof. There will be a number of [...]
View PostThis just landed in my inbox so thought I’d share it as it sound like a blooming good festival and if I wasn’t going to the Hawkshed Beer Festival on Thursday I’d have popped up to Newcastle this weekend. We kick off on Friday at 3pm when our 3 bars will open. We have [...]
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