For Open It day 2 had had planned on drinking more than just one bottle of beer but an impromptu trip out to a lovely sunny Whitby and a tour of a few of it’s fine drinking establishments didn’t leave me with much time or much space in my considerably large beer belly. Not wanting to miss [...]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, open it, whiskyAs part of the second Open It I’ve lined up a few beers I’ve been keeping for one reason or another, the first two I decided to open were Mikkeller 1000 IBU and the Mikkeller Barrel Aged 1000 IBU. I’d been keeping these two to try side by side and to be honest I was [...]
View Post barrel aged beer, bottled beer, danish beer, DIPA, Double IPA, IIPA, IPASaturday night saw a trip up to the much anticipated White Swan and Captain Cook Beer festival (not to be confused with the Captain Cook pub beer festival which was on at the same time in Staithes). We arrived at the White Swan in Stokesley in the early evening after a rather eventful taxi ride, [...]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer Festival, captain cook, cask ale, hand pulled aleAs the sun beats down outside (not that I can see it as our office window is currently boarded up) I can’t but help wish away the week as I’m ready for a walk and a pint outside a pub. It seems like so long ago since my last pint sat outside in the sun, [...]
View Post cask ale, muker, Yorkshire Ale, Yorkshire beer, yorkshire dalesI’ve had this review sitting round here for a good while now but never gotten round to posting it, mainly because I’ve had other stuff to say but also because Dogma was no longer available from Brewdog…..well until now. News broke a couple of days ago that Dogma was back in the Brewdog store (you [...]
View Post BrewDog, heather beer, honey beer, scottish beer, unusual beerBeer and food pairing is something many people (including my self) often put a lot of time and effort into, just like those in the wine industry and restaurants. Finding the perfect beer to go with a dish can be a royal pain in the bottom but to be honest most beer will go with [...]
View Post beer and food, bottled beer, FABPOW, fabpw, lager, light beer, scottish beerI’ve been drinking a lot of Kernel beers of late and to be brutally honest I’ve enjoyed every single one of them. Kernel get a lot of praise and in my opinion, rightly so. They are probably my favourite brewery in the whole wide world at the moment. S.C.A.NS stands for the hops that are [...]
View Post apollo, bottled beer, citra, london beer, nelson sauvin, simcoe, the kernelHardknott are one of the breweries I have a great fondness for, this stems back to visiting Dave and Ann when they ran the Woolpack inn. It was easy to see how passionate and knowledgable they both are. Since selling th pub and moving the brewery they have gone from strength to strength, re branding [...]
View PostThere’s been a lot of talk about Brewdog’s Punk IPA lately, first of all they released a version called Punk X, I think it was an experiment to see what people thought of Punk IPA with a few tweeks, It was released in cask and bottle (possibly keg too) and not being able to get [...]
View Post BrewDog, british beer, Canned beer, IPA, punk, scottish beerThis week was one of those weeks I was trying not to drink on a work night, unfortunately I only lasted until Wednesday night and surprisingly it wasn’t the canned Brewdog Punk IPA that had arrived earlier in the week that tempted me into breaking my abstinence, it was a a bottle from the case [...]
View Post badger beer, bottled ale, bottled beer, clear bottles, Seasonal ale