Gateshead beer festival is ran over the May Day Bank holiday weekend (3rd to the 5th of May this year), They have about 60 pumps on at any one time and over the space of the weekend they should have about 140 different beers available. They are supporting local brewer and breweries from across the [...]
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I’ll be honest there’s not many places round here to buy decent bottled beer, whether it be local or from further a field. There is the odd shop like Whistle Stop Wines in Saltburn and of course the supermarkets have the odd beer, even B&M gets the odd bottle of decent ale in now and [...]
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On Monday 30/07/2012 The Plimsoll Line will be holding a meet the brewer session with Saltaire brewery from 7pm. Saltaire beers available will be: Empress IPA (abv 5.0%) Tykes Gold (abv 4.4%) Raspberry Blonde (abv 4.0%) Elderflower Blonde (abv 4.0%) Five Rise Pale (abv 3.9%) In addition to these we will also have available Wall’s [...]
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Last week saw lots of thirsty beer lovers descend on Staveley in Cumbria for the latest instalment in the Hawkshead Beer Festival. We arrived early afternoon on the Thursday after a quick trip round Ambleside and setting up camp at the excellent Pound Farm Campsite just over 2 miles from the Brewery in a little village called [...]
View Post Beer Festival, cumbrian ale, cumbrian beer, northern beerThis just landed in my inbox so thought I’d share it as it sound like a blooming good festival and if I wasn’t going to the Hawkshed Beer Festival on Thursday I’d have popped up to Newcastle this weekend. We kick off on Friday at 3pm when our 3 bars will open. We have [...]
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The Plimsoll Line in Redcar are having another meet the brewer night, this time with Black Paw brewery. Black Paw are based in Durham and have been brewing since July 2011 the beers will include Bishop’s Best, Paw’s Gold, Dark Seam, Polar Paw and Black Paw IPA Checkout their Facebook for more info and pop down any time after 19:00 on the 2nd [...]
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Things have been a bit hectic since my trip to Leeds for the European Beer Bloggers Conference so this post has taken a while to get to the top of my list. Lots has already been written, plenty of photographs shared and plenty of stories told and fondly remembered. It was my first Beer Bloggers conference and [...]
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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 week’s meet the brewer comes from a brewery close to my heart as their Workie Ticket was one of the first beers I ever had at a beer festival, It’s also one that’s recently undergone a bit of a transformation and is going from strength to strength Where did your brewery name come from? [...]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, geordie beer, northern beerThe 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% [...]
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