I 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, TwissupIt’s that time of year where we dust of our twadges (no not that…this), prepare our survival kits and prepare your drinking boots, Twissup is here. All you need to do is complete the form below and we will announce the results in a couple of weeks. If anyone has suggestions of places to visit or beery [...]
View Post blog, bloggers, blogging, Twissup, twitterA 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, TwissupIt already seems like ages ago since I hopped on the short train journey to York for the first Twissup of 2011. I arrived way too early so went for a quick wander around the lovely historic streets and had a look a the market in the square, only just resisting the urge to buy [...]
View Post cask beer, keg beer, Twissup, york, york beer, york beers, york pubcrawl, york twissupTwissup is only a few sleeps away so this is just a quick roll call to see who is coming so we can get an idea of numbers! If you’ve not read the details then you can find out more here and here, the important thing is we are starting at York brewery at 12:00 [...]
View Post Twissup, york, york beerWith Twissup York fast approaching we’ve put together a rough plan for the day, a lot of this will depend on how people are feeling and how many turn up, some of the pubs won’t fit a huge number of people in so we may have to split up and rendezvous in a bigger pub [...]
View Post bloggers, pub crawl, Twissup, york, york beerVoting has closed for the February Twissup and we’re going to… York! Despite a last minute surge from Brighton (taking the last five votes), York is where we’ll be going with 26 of the 69 votes (Brighton picked up 21 votes, Newcastle 15, Bristol 4 and Derby a surprisingly low 3). Mark and I will [...]
View Post pub crawl, Twissup, york, york beer, york breweryHere we go, the first Twissup of 2011 will take place on Saturday 26th February. It’s our regular drink-a-thon around a new place with beer bloggers, tweeters, brewers, pub managers and much more. We’ve done Sheffield, Burton and Manchester/Huddersfield, now the next one is up to everyone to decide on the location. Mark and I [...]
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