I’ve been a fan of Flying Dog beers for a while but they are a bit of a pain to get hold of, luckily Tesco have now started to stock two of them so they are easy to get hold of (thanks to eurodog and bierenco, if u can’t find it get it from beermerchants) [...]
View Post american beer, classic pale ale, Flying dogThere seems to be few new Adnams beers making it into the shops lately, and this is no bad thing as they are generally pretty excellent and tasty session beers. Again it comes in their new eco friendly brown bottle and a % of the profits of the beer go to support the prostate cancer [...]
View Post Adnams, bitter, gun hillI picked up a couple of Adnams Ales in Tesco a few weeks ago, one of which was Lighthouse, It’s quite a simple beer and uncomplicated beer, so this “review” is short and sweet. The bottle said it was developed from championship beers and was also a “charity” beer and that Adnams would donate 10p [...]
View Post Adnams, bitter, Green Beer, lighthouse, recycled bottlesThese two beauties were very kindly sent to me by @daas_beer on twitter. You might not have guessed it from here but I do love belgian beers and Belgian style beers and I tend to drink them a lot in the summer, the problem (if you can call it that) lately has been that I have [...]
View Post belgian beers, Daas beers, daas blonde, daas witte, organic beer, white beer, witte beerI’d not seen Barnsley beers until i went in my local cheap shop (B&M) so i decided to give them a whirl as they were around £1 each. I picked up the following: Bee by Gum 4.3% Nutty Stack 4.4% Barnsley Better 3.8% Black Brite 4.5% Ronnies Owd Cock 4.0% Owd Tyke 4.6% Coil Oil [...]
View Post barnsley beers, yorkshire beersEvery 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 been drinking Nick’s Ales for some time and he seems to be quite [...]
View Post black horse, eh up lad, hambleton, Hambleton Ales, nick stafford, nightmare, stallion, studPLEASE NOTE THERE IS A REVIEW OF THE NEW VERSION HERE Firstly let me apologise for the poor photo, it was taken quite late on Saturday night using my phone whist wondering exactly why i had just paid £2.69 for the bottle of “special brew” We had ended up in the local chain pub and [...]
View Post Frank's alcoholic ginger beer, ginger beer, kopparbergI decided to do a big Innis and Gunn taste test after their PR agency in the UK, R&R Teamwork, very kindly sent me a bottle of the Canadian Cask Ale and Rum Cask Ale to try. Once they arrived i hot footed it down to my local Tesco, where i knew i could pick up [...]
View Post Innis and Gunn, Innis and gunn canadian cask, oak aged beer, oak matured beer, Rum caskWhen I was at the Cropton Brewery (The New Inn) I absolutely loved their Honey Gold so I thought I would bring a bottle home to try. The beer didn’t have the same distinct smell of carmel waffels or the creamy head that it did in the brewery, but then again I didn’t really expect [...]
View Post Cropton, honey beer, honey goldLast 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 pub with a difference, as well as great traditional pub grub and real ales it does some [...]
View Post Blackwell ox, flaxen dane, Hambleton Ales, hambleton stud, rudgate brewery, thai food