It was the Sunday after Twissup does Burton Upon Trent and it was time for me to head home, fortunately my train ticket said I had to go via Sheffield so I had arranged to meet brewers extraordinaire ...
I first encountered Stannington Stout when I visited Crown Brewery to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. Although by the time I drank it I may have been a little worse for wear, I did however enter "Lovely ...
I recently ordered a couple of cases of Unpronounceable IPA from My Brewery Tap, Stu being the gent he is, kindly slipped in a couple of unlabelled bottles of his new Wheat Beer for me to try. Befo...
I've wanted to do blind tasting between Brewdog's Infamous Punk IPA and Thornbridge's Stunning Jaipur for a while, but haven't actually managed to keep a bottle of either in my beer cupboard long en...
Stu gave me this bottle of Smokin Oktoberfest way back when I visited him and the Crown Brewery for my brewday and it really has taken me this long to get round to writing about it (sorry Stu), Anot...
It seems like so long ago since I jumped on the train heading for Sheffield, but looking at the calendar it was only on Saturday, I can only put this down to either some sort of spacetime continum or ...
Samuel Berry's Pale Ale was one of Crown Brewery's beers that I hadn't had until I visited the Hillsborough Hotel to help brew Ring of Fire 2009. I was given a taster while I was there and also bought...
It's been said before, that the internet is a wonderful thing, it helps people from all over the world communicate, meet new people and learn new things. Thanks to social networking site Twitter I ...
In anticipation of my trip down to the brewery to deliver some of my Chilli Up North Chillis to Stu and give him a hand in brewing Ring of Fire beer, I thought I would review another one of Crown's ...
This was another of the beers that @crownbrewerstu sent me. After trying the Ring of Fire and Unpronounceable I.P.A I was really looking forward to this one, mainly because the other two had really ...