Over 130 beers plus more than 30 cliders and perries will be available at Northumbria University Student Union, 2 Sandyford Road, NE1 8SB. On Wednesday 18th the doors open at 18:00 and close at 22:30 Thursday 12:00 til 22:30 Friday 12:00 til 22:30 Saturday 12:00 to 17:00 Entry is £3 per session unless you have a [...]
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This Easter Sunday Bacchus in Newcastle is the place to be as it’s their Easter Beer festival, not only that it’s the presentation of ‘CAMRA Tyneside Pub Of The Year 2012′. The festival starts at 12 noon and runs until 22:30 with the CAMRA presentation likely to be soon after opening. Bacchus will be offering [...]
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Just a quick heads up that The Free Trade Inn in Newcastle is hosting the launch of what sounds like a fantastic beer, Tyne Bank Piccolo Black from 19:00 on Monday 6th Feb 2012. Piccolo Black, is a collaboration between local Barista, Piccolo Coffee and Tyne Bank Brewery. It is a black pale ale brewed [...]
View Post coffee beer, newcastle, Newcastle beer, real ale, the free trade inn, toonI was going to write a huge post about what happened when Twissup hit Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, but to be honest, there’s been lots of great write-ups which you can read here, here, here, here , here and here (If I’ve missed your link stick it in the comments at the bottom) So [...]
View Post Beer bloggers, bottled beer, cask beer, newcastle, TwissupFor those of you who missed it the next Twissup is in Newcastle on the 12th November 2011. I’ve tried to put together a bit of a plan with the help of Jeff, Mick from the Free Trade, Toonbeerchris and Andrew from Bacchus so here’s a rough outline of the day…things are bound to change [...]
View Post newcastle, Newcastle beer, newcastle pubs, TwissupThe votes have been counted, re counted and double checked and I am please to announce that the next Twissup is in Newcastle on 12th November 2011. The voting for the host city was quite close with Newcastle 5 votes ahead of Edinburgh and then Norwich a little way behind. The 12th November romped home with 49% [...]
View Post cask ale, newcastle, northern beer, real ale, toon, TwissupA couple of saturday’s ago my self and @davelozman hopped on the train to Newcastle, to grab some lunch then hit a few pubs, well that was the plan anyway. We livened up the train journey by sharing a bottle of Raison d etre from Dog fish head and then a bottle of chaos theory [...]
View Post cask ale, local ale, locale, newcastle, northern beer, TwissupJust found this in my inbox so thought I would share it, The rather excellent Newcastle Arms in Newcastle is having a beer festival that starts tomorrow. There are some brilliant beers from some of my favourite breweries so if you are in the area then it’s worth a look. You can also get the [...]
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