Lakeland Blonde was one of the beers I was very kindly sent by Bitter End Brewing Co and My Brewery Tap, it was the second of their beers I tried after the Lakeland IPA which I thought was rather tasty. Lakeland Blonde weighs in a little bit ligh...
Scapa Special was part of the selection of beers I got from Highland Brewing Company, It wasn't a beer I had heard much about but when I started to look into it it was a beer that interested me quite a lot, mainly because of the mix of hops used in b...
Tally Ho is a limited edition Barley wine style beer, brewed at Adnams since 1880. It's traditionally a Christmas beer which is brewed in October in limited quantities. I was very kindly sent my bottle of Tally Ho by Sean at Adnams who offered to ...
Bitter End Brewing Co weren't a brewery I had heard of until I got a bottle in my My Brewery Tap case and then was very kindly sent some of their other beers to sample. I was quite surprised that I'd not heard of them as we spend a lot of time in th...
It had been a while since I had Morrissey Fox's Blonde, mainly because I remember it being a bit a bit boring, but when I saw the Brunette I thought I'd give the Blonde another chance and do a side by side tasting. For those of you who aren't fami...
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), Another apology must also go out for the picture, I've...
Williams Brothers are one of the few breweries that do Twitter well, they interact, they answer questions and the listen to feedback, A while back I got chatting to them and they sent me some of the test batch of their Ginger Beer, when It arrived I ...
I've recently gotten into Moor Beers in a big way, ever since having my first bottle of Somerland Gold and JJ IPA towards the end of 2009 I've been wanting to try Moor of there beers (see what I did there??) So when I received a tip off that Beer Mer...
Orkney Blast was another one of the beers that Lew sent me in exchange for some chilli chutney and it was possibly the one I was looking forward to most after all The beer boy (Zak Avery) him self seemed to rate it when he tried it a while back [c...
Just wanted to say a quick congratulations to Nick and his team @ Hambleton Ales, on winning the Sainsbury Beer Competition 2009. It's nice to see a quality local ale producer doing well. More i...
Regular readers of the blog will know I am a big fan of Hambleton Ales, not only are they quite local to me but they make a cracking range of beers. One of my favourites is Hambleton Stallion, It's...
Every now and then (not as much as i would like) i get to go round a local brewery, this time it was the turn of Nick Staffords Hambleton Ales in, i was really looking forward to this one as i have be...
Last weekend after we had been for a nice little 12 mile stroll up and around the Cleveland hills we called in at one of my favourite pubs, the Blackwell Ox in Carlton, it's a lovely little country pu...
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