Dust off the fancy bottles, it’s time to Open It! It’s a reason and an excuse to open those bottles you’ve been saving. Beers which you really want to drink but also really want to hold onto until a special occasion. The thing is, not all beer gets better if you leave it and the [...]
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The Highland Brewing Company is one of my favourite breweries north of the border, Rob and his son produce some cracking ales which is no surprise really when Rob has been brewing for over 28 years and brewed in some great breweries across the UK. Based on the beautiful island of Orkney they are also known as [...]
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I first met Pete from the Brew Company at Twissup in Sheffield, where he not only introduced me to his better half Liz who runs the Harlequinn pub in Sheffield but also to one of my now favourite tipples, Angostura 1919 rum. The Brew Company started brewing in 2007 after Pete left Cadbury’s and have [...]
View PostPork Scratchings have to be one of the best British beery bar snacks out there, crunch and salty they go with pretty much any beer you can lay your hands on. Unfortunately it would seem that the majority of packets of scratchings use rind from Danish Pigs, this travesty has lead Tom Parker Bowles and [...]
View PostThe day after we’d been to the Cumbrian Beer Appreciation Group’s latest meal was mostly spent wandering around the beautiful Lake District in the rain trying to resit the temptation to go on a huge pub crawl and drink lots of Lakeland Ale, mainly because we had drank lots of beer the night before but [...]
View PostLast week saw the latest get together of the Cumbrian Beer Appreciation Group (CBAG), after seeing tweets from previous events I’d quite fancied going to one but had never manged to time my holidays with the meals, this time however my luck was in and we were planning on heading to the Lake District when [...]
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It seems wrong that I’ve not written about Magic Rock beers on here before, especially as I’ve supped an awful lot of them from bottle, cask and even keg. So I thought it was about time I broke the duck, jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a little bit about them. Based in Huddersfield, Magic [...]
View PostDurham Brewery have recently undergone a bit of a makeover not only releasing some new beers but they’ve changed their iconic branding and got themselves a shiny new website. The branding is starting to grow on me, I was a huge fan of the old bottles and pumpclips so I was a little shocked when [...]
View PostIf you’ve not seen Beer Tickers Beyond The Ale then you’ve missed a treat. If you’ve no idea what it is then check out my review here. If you fall into either of the above or have seen it and want your own shiny new, cellophane wrapped copy to watch then all you have to do is [...]
View PostWhat now seems like an age ago I popped down to York on the train, this wasn’t one of my usual jaunts to try and cram as many pubs in as possible it was with the specific intention of spending most if not all of the day at the Slip Inn at what promised to [...]
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