Timothy Taylor’s Landlord is possibly one of most well known beers from Yorkshire and has been around since the year dot, It also happens to be one of my favourite beers and one of those beers that I can’t decide if I prefer it on cask or in bottles. Last night we went to Vista [...]
View Post english ales, local ales, Timothy Taylor, Yorkshire beerThere has been a lot of Beer Swap action across the country this week, people sending parcels, people reciving them, it’s not been without it’s problems , mainly due to the parcel delivery service we used. The good news is that not only have I received the test parcel from Mark at Real Ale Reviews, [...]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ales, local alesAlright then. We’ve done all the calling for swappers and now we have the final list. Instead of randomly drawing names we split the list into North and South and then further into bloggers and tweeters. We then hand-paired everyone up based on where you are from, what you do (blog/tweet) and where you want [...]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ales, local alesWe’ve already had some big news this week but this one could be even bigger: Beer Swap! We’ve had a couple of blog posts, there’s been lots of twittering, we’ve gained a hashtag and @beerswap, an email address and, most importantly, we’ve got a lot of interest, so much interest that we’re expanding beyond the [...]
View Post Beer Swap, blogger beer swap, english ales, local alesI’ve just had the info and the beer list through for the next beer festival at a local(ish) pub, its a great little pub in a stunning seaside town just south of Whitby. I’m hoping to go on the Sunday for as I can’t make the other days due to taking up the chance to [...]
View Post Beer festivals, Captain Cook Inn, english ales, local alesA friend of Beer Reviews from twitter and a participent in the up and coming #beerswap @richardmackney has posted a great little article on his blog about his day brewing with the guys at his local microbrewery, it’s a wicked little post so thought I would share it with you incase you don’t already follow [...]
View Post Brewing beer, english ale, local ales, micro brewery, nutbrook breweryI’ve basically just copied this post straight from Mark @ pencil and spoon – he writes far more eloquently than me and i’m in a lazy saturday morning mood, so i’ve put my comments in orange! so here are the plans for the big blogger beer swap. Awesome take up so far, reaching out to [...]
View Post Beer Swap, english ales, local ales, pencil and spoonYou may have already seen on twitter and on Mark Dredge’s Website that there is something called The Big Blogger Beer Swap going on, if not you can read all about it on his website. Myself and Mark from Real Ale Reviews decided to give it a “trial run” so i thought I would leave [...]
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