A couple of weeks ago HardknottDave asked me if i wanted to test his soon to be launched online shop, happy to help a mate and with the chance to order a pre release version of his newest bottled beer, I logged on and got stuck in. Not long after my paypal receipt had arrived [...]
View Post Bottle conditioned beer, bottled beer, cumbria, cumbrian beer, hardknott, real aleHardknott 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 PostWhile I was at The Great British Beer Festival, Dave, otherwise known a HardknottDave very kindly gave me a bottle of his latest brew, Infra Red. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Hardknott Brewery, They started off brewing up at the Woolpack Pub in Boot, then Dave and Ann sold the pub [...]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, english beer, English IPA, IPA, red beer, red ipa, usa ipaThis weeks Meet the Brewer comes from the other side of the pond, from a brewer that I’ve only ever tried one beer from but I’ve heard a lot about, mainly from Dave of Hardknott Brewery. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? The brewery is attached to a public house, [...]
View Post america, american ale, american beer, Hardknott brewery, US beer, USA, usa breweryIt’s been a very long time since I’ve visited the Woolpack Inn, deep in the Lake District, In fact I’m not even sure Dave and Ann were there when I last went. But after previously meeting them both a few times we decided that we had to visit the pub. We set off from a [...]
View Post beer tasting, cumbria, lake district, localale, woolpack dave, woolpack innThursday can only mean one thing, it’s time for meet the brewer, this week’s featured brewer is Dave from Hardknott, AKA WoolpackDave. I’ve met Dave a couple of times and he’s a cracking bloke, game for a laugh and knows his beer, he is also great at writing about beer, pubs and the beer industry [...]
View Post Hardknott brewery, lake district, local ale, Meet The Brewer, real ale, woolpack ann, woolpack daveIt 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 a monumental hangover, which led to a couple of days of being dazed and confused. You [...]
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