The year is almost over and there becomes an inevitable point in which we take a look over our shoulders and evaluate how the past 12 months has been, before looking forward to the next. As Beer Swap rolls on (there’s no hurry, just drink and be happy), Mark’s Dredge (from pencil and spoon) and [...]
View Post Beer Awards, best beer, Golden PintsHop Daemon’s Green Daemon Helles was the 2nd beer I decided to sample from my beer swap package. Green Daemon Helles is a 5% ABV bottle conditioned pale beer, it had quite a lot to live up to after the Skrimshander i had with my midweek curry. It started off quite promising when it poured [...]
View Post Beer Swap, Bottle conditioned, english ales, english lager, HopdaemonHopdaemon’s beers were something I had heard a little bit about, mainly through twitter and the various beer blog’s so when my proper beer swap beers arrived and I opened them up to find that my beer swapper, @petebrissenden brewer at Hopdaemon had included some of his beers along with some other local brews I was [...]
View Post Beer Swap, english ale, English IPA, Hopdaemon, IPAThis was the last of the Beer Swap test parcel beers that Mark from @realalereviews sent me. I was all ready to post the story on the beer and the brewery as it was another place (apart from the civil war that is) I hadn’t heard of so when I looked it up on google, [...]
View Post Beer Swap, Cherwell Valley, cropredy bridge, english alesCotswold Wheat Beer was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, (which also included Hook Norton Hooky Gold and Hook Norton Haymaker) and was from a brewery I hadn’t heard of before so I went straight to their website. According to their site: Modelled on the famous Weisse [...]
View Post Beer Swap, Cotswold Brewing Co, english ales, wheat beerHook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, [...]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesHooky Norton Hooky Gold was one of the 4 Beer Swap test parcel beers that were sent to me by @realalereviews, Hook Norton was a brewery that I was familiar with but I had never had Hooky Gold so was looking forward to trying it. Hooky Gold is a pale and refreshing ale from Hook [...]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, english ales, Hook NortonIf 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 PostLast night I was due to go to the Saltburn Beer Festival, I had been looking forward to it for months, especially as I had seen the beer list and it contained some beers I really wanted to try. I had originally planned to go on the Friday but a family engagement cropped up so [...]
View PostThere has been a lot of Beer Swap action across the country this week, people sending parcels, people reciving them, it’s not been without it’s problems , mainly due to the parcel delivery service we used. The good news is that not only have I received the test parcel from Mark at Real Ale Reviews, [...]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ales, local ales