It seems wrong that I’ve not written about Magic Rock beers on here before, especially as I’ve supped an awful lot of them from bottle, cask and even keg. So I thought it was about time I broke the duck, jumped on the bandwagon and wrote a little bit about them. Based in Huddersfield, Magic [...]
View Post beer and cheese, beer and food, Beer and food pairingAs a change from their usual beer and food matching events the Bacchus in Newcastle has decided to hold a cheese and Norwegian beer afternoon starting at 4pm on Sunday 28th August. The beers are all from Nøgne ø brewery, the cheeses have been advised and supplied by the Norbiton fine cheese company and Norbiton’s [...]
View Post beer and cheese, Beer and food pairing, Norweigan beerLast Friday night a group of us went to the Black Sheep Beer and Food Night at the brewery in Masham, 3 of us were beer bloggers the other 3 were our partners, some of who enjoy the odd beer and some who don’t drink beer at all. We arrived in Masham a little early, [...]
View Post beer and food, Beer and food pairing, black sheep, cask ale, cask beer, Yorkshire AleA couple of weeks ago I won some delicious goodies from Olives Et Al on Twitter, as I won them using my Beer Reviews account I thought I’d try and pair what they sent me with beer so here are the results and a little bit of info about Olives Et Al. Olives Et Al [...]
View Post bar snacks, beer and food, Beer and food pairing, beer snacks, food pairing, IPA, pilsner, soutIn addition to the All Beer Experience kit i wrote about here, All Beer also have a rather handy beer finder website. The idea behind the beer finder is that no matter what your mood or the situation you should be able to find a beer that takes your fancy. You can search the site [...]
View Post all beer, beer and food, Beer and food pairing, beer finder, beer styles, beer websiteI know Mark does FABPOW’s quite a lot and they are great, I thought I would have a punt at it this week after first coming across this pairing when camping in Northumberland a few weeks ago. We were on Holy Island and some how manged to choose a day to visit when most of [...]
View Post Beer and food pairing, bitter, FABPOW, food and beer, local ale, localeI was sent this press release by R & R (the people who kindly sent me the Innis and Gunn, I really enjoyed reading it so thought you might like to read it too….and maybe give it a go, it’s certainly something ill be giving a crack sometime soon. Could Chablis with Oysters, Champagne with [...]
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