I’ll be honest, I got sent a few bottles of Darwin’s Origin a while back and they’ve all long since been drank and this has been sat here half started and full of short hand so I thought it was about time I finished it off. “Darwin’s Origin is the brainchild of Debbie at Salopian [...]
View Post bitter, bottled beerI 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, localeHook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, [...]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesTraditional English Ale or T.E.A for short, was a beer I had wanted to try for a while, so when I got my hands on a bottle in one of Hogs Back’s nice little gift sets, I was quite excited to try it, unfortunately i hadn’t had time to write up the review until now. T.E.A is [...]
View Post bitter, Bottle conditioned, english ales, Hogs Back Brewery, T.E.AThis 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 surprised me and i thoroughly enjoyed them. The beer opened with a real fizz and started to foam out of the [...]
View Post bitter, Crown Brewery, english ales, wheat beerI recently acquired this beer from my dad, who was passing the Hambleton Brewery, I knew they bottled ales for other breweries after a recent tour there, however I didn’t realise they also sold them from their shop. As neither my dad or myself had heard of Bowland before we thought we would try a [...]
View Post bitter, Bowland Brewery, english alesThere 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 bottles