Salopian brewery make one of my favourite beers in Darwin’s Origin so when they got in touch and asked if I fancied trying their 7.2% Vertigo there was no way I was going to decline. I didn’t know much about the beer so was a bit surprised when it poured as dark as it did [...]
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Every now and then something unexpectedly arrives in, more often than not it’s a bill of some kind, fortuatnely this time it was something a lot more exciting…..an 8% beer from Badger, yes that’s an 8% beer from Badger, it’s not every day they release one of those. The name comes from a local legend [...]
View Post bottled beer, Dorset ale, Limited edition, strong ale, Strong beer
The Highland Brewing Company is one of my favourite breweries north of the border, Rob and his son produce some cracking ales which is no surprise really when Rob has been brewing for over 28 years and brewed in some great breweries across the UK. Based on the beautiful island of Orkney they are also known as [...]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, real ale, scottish beer, Strong beerThis was probably Brewdog beer I was looking forward to the release of with most anticipation, those that know me or follow me on twitter will know that I’m just as obsessed with great coffee (usually from the excellent Hasbean) and everything chilli related (see my other blog) So given that AB:04 contained Hasbean coffee, [...]
View Post Bottle conditioned, bottled beer, BrewDog, scottish beer, Strong beerA few weeks back I recieved a Duvel gift pack and press release in the post, The pack contained 2 bottles of Duvel and a nice big branded Duvel Glass. The whole box is well put together and covered in the nice but simple Duvel branding, the box has lots of information about Duvel on [...]
View Post Belgian Beer, Golden ale, Strong beerI write this as I am sat here with a rather large bulbous glass that has a rather small amount of what is currently the world’s strongest “beer”, Sink The Bismarck, from Brewdog. My brother bought the bottle a few weeks ago and it arrived a couple of days ago, he offered to bring some [...]
View Post 41%, BrewDog, IPA, scottish ale, Strong beer, world's strongest beerThis week’s Meet The Brewer, comes from north of the border where James Watt from BrewDog has kindly taken time out from his world domination plans and fishing to complete our little feature. Like many of the things BrewDog do this is likely to divide opinion so if you have any thoughts please leave them [...]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, james watt, Meet The Brewer, scottish ale, Strong beerIt’s been announced (a little bit early by all accounts) that the guys over at Brewdog have done it again, Created the world’s strongest beer and grabbed the headlines by calling it “Sink the Bismark” a reference to toppling the German beer that knocked Tactical Nuclear Penguin off the top spot. Now yet again i [...]
View Post BrewDog, IPA, Strong beerThis was meant to be similar to my Thornbridge Jaipur post, in that I wanted to compare cask Halcyon to bottled Halcyon, I was all set for the battle but due to Beer Festival Fail, I didn’t get chance to try the cask Halcyon. As it happens Beer merchants recently reduced some bottles of Halcyon [...]
View Post english ale, green hopped, hoppy beer, IPA, real ale, Strong beer