A few months ago well known Yorkshire Brewery, Black Sheep did something a little bit different. Known for producing a solid range of tasty cask and bottled beer they decided to brew a beer they’d not tried before…an Imperial Russian Stout, weighing in at 8.5% ABV, what’s more they then sent the beer on a [...]
View Post bottled beer, real ale, Stout, york, Yorkshire beerIt 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 breweryUnsure what to do during the day on new year’s eve and with the other half at work myself and Dave managed to swing some cheap train tickets to York so I decided to dig out the map I made for 2009′s trip with Mark from Real Ale Reviews add a couple of new pubs [...]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, cask beer, IPA, keg beer, pub crawl, train beer, york, york beer, york pubsThis week’s Meet the Brewer comes from a brewery that I had a tour of a few weeks ago so over to Andrew to tell you a bit more about York Brewery What is your brewery capacity? We have a 20 bbl brewlength with 180 bbls fermenting capacity or 9 brews per week What is [...]
View Post bottled ale, brewery, cask ale, york, york breweryLast week I joined my dad on their yearly institute brewery trip, over the years we have been to loads of different breweries and this year was a new one for me, one I had wanted to have a nose round for quite a while as we get quite a lot of their beers up here both [...]
View Post brewery, brewery tour, english ale, pale ale, york, Yorkshire AleA return to York has been on the cards for me for some time, so when I got chatting to Mark from Real Ale Reviews about taking a day off work and going for a few beers we decided that York would be a great place to go as it was easy for us both [...]
View Post english ales, pub crawl, pubs, sierra nevada, york