Firstly thanks for all of the entries into the Slurp Beer competition, there were well over 100 entries and 79 people who answered the questions correctly. The winner was picked after I tweeted asking for a number, this corresponded to the row of in the database of correct entries and this lucky person was Cinabar [...]
View PostAfter an excellent day in Chester the plans for the next couple of days included more walking that beer but that’s not to say it didn’t include a fair bit of beer. You can read about the walking here or have a nose at my photos here, so I thought I’d do a quick round [...]
View Post beer and walking, cask ale, cask beer, cumbrian beer, welsh beerA couple of weeks ago we’d arranged to go and visit some friends in Wales, where they live isn’t too far from Chester so we hopped on the bus (not bust ;op ) to go for a look around. I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of pubs and beer so arrived with an [...]
View Post bottled ale, cask ale, locale, pub crawl, pubs, real ale, tasting trayNot content with giving away 2 lots of beer and a beer tickers DVD lately, We’ve teamed up with Slurp Beers to offer 1 lucky reader the chance to win a special mixed case of beer. It’s simple, just answer the questions below and hit submit (sorry in advance if it doesn’t work on mobile [...]
View Post competition, free beerThis was sumbitted for the cooking with beer competition by Gregg, it sounds and looks delicious! Thanks to Gregg for taking part, you can find a bit more about him here Serves 2 hungry people 4 Lean Pork Steaks or 2 Pork chops 2 Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1 tsp Fennel seeds 1 tsp Course Seasalt [...]
View PostA couple of saturday’s ago my self and @davelozman hopped on the train to Newcastle, to grab some lunch then hit a few pubs, well that was the plan anyway. We livened up the train journey by sharing a bottle of Raison d etre from Dog fish head and then a bottle of chaos theory [...]
View Post cask ale, local ale, locale, newcastle, northern beer, TwissupOver the last couple of weeks it all seems to have gone a bit mad in the UK beer scene. There seems to be this really unsavoury undercurrent of sniping, backbiting and a hint of ill feeling between CAMRA, Brewers and Bloggers. Everyone seems to have forgotten they all share something in common, something very [...]
View Post beer blog, beer blogging, beer politics, BrewDogPhil over at BeerTickers very kindly sent me 3 copies of the excellent beer tickers film. As It’s bank holiday and I’m hoping a few of you will be out drinking. I’ve decided to give one copy away today to someone who sends me a picture of a new beer they have ticked today. Either [...]
View Post beer tickers, free stuff, win stuffAs I write this I’m sat on a mini bus, swaithed I’m blue florescent light, on the way home from the Old Mill Brewery in Snaith, Yorkshire. I’ll be honest, before I was asked if I wanted to join my dad and his colleagues on this trip I’d not even heard of this place. But now I’m [...]
View Post brewery tour, cask ale, local ale, locale, yorkshireAfter sifting through all of the entries that we had to the Daniel Thwaites competition it appeared we had just 4 people who got all of the questions correct. So in the absence of a tie breaker I asked Lee over at Thwaites to pick a number, this number corresponded to the row number of [...]
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