I said last week that I was going to try and blog about something different on a Friday for a bit, I’ve got a couple of posts lined up, well this week is something I’ve not done before and something that Scoop has been trying to get me to take part in for a while, […]
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What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Our Brewery is called ‘The Big River Brewery’, we called it that because we’re right next to the River Humber and given that it drains something in the order of 1/3 of the UK it seemed right to give a nod in that direction. […]
View PostDurham Brewery have recently undergone a bit of a makeover not only releasing some new beers but they’ve changed their iconic branding and got themselves a shiny new website. The branding is starting to grow on me, I was a huge fan of the old bottles and pumpclips so I was a little shocked when […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, Durham Brewery, real ale, Underrated Breweries, vegan beerWhat is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Brasserie de Brunehaut. Founded in 1890 in the village of Brunehaut, by the Allard-Groetembril family What is your brewery capacity? 4500 Hl/year What is different about your brewery? We are artisanal, we make NO compromise with quality, we grow our own barley, we have been the […]
View Post Belgian Beer, bottled beer, Meet The BrewerInspired by Reluctant Scooper’s Twenty Breweries series I thought I’d take a look at some breweries that I think don’t get the praise and recognition they deserve, breweries that If I see one of their pumpclips or bottles I know that there’s good beer to be drank. Underrated Breweries No: 1 Yorkshire Dales Brewing Co […]
View Post bottled ale, bottled beer, cask ale, cask beer, Underrated BreweriesIn a first for Meet the Brewer we head across the North Sea to Norway and chat to Kjetil Jikiun of Nøgne ø What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? Nøgne ø, Det Kompromissløse Bryggeri, which litteraly means Naked Island, The Uncomromising Brewery. Naked Island is a term from from the […]
View Post bottled beer, casked beer, kegged beer, Meet The Brewer, Norweigan beerA couple of weeks ago the lovely people at Young’s sent me a case of their new London Gold, when I say new I really mean newly bottled, as London Gold has been around in Cask form for some time now. As they were kind enough to send me 8 bottles I decided to share […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, london, real ale, summer aleWhen I was first assigned the Netherlands I hadnt a clue what beer was brewed in the country. Five minutes into my search I thought I was going to end up drinking Heineken or Grolsch. A trusty old google search for Dutch breweries led me to this site. At this point I was lost. So […]
View Post beer and football, european beer, world cup, world cup beerOtley Brewing Company were another one of those breweries I had heard of but never seen in the wild or found anywhere to buy them when on my travels. I a strange twist of fate our local pub had some in a few months ago and my dad tried it then told me about it, unfortunately by […]
View Post Bottle conditioned, hoppy beer, otley brewing, pale ale, welsh beerThis beer arrived as part of my Beer Swap Part Deux box from Andrew at Bristol Beer Factory, It was another new beer to me which is great as that’s the whole point of Beer Swap. The first thing that jumps out about Goat’s Leap is the label, I think it’s great, I love the […]
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