On Saturday after a day of drinking a whole load of different styles of beer, including IPA, Stout, Saison, Barley Wine and even a Cucumber beer, I was lured in by the smell of Chrismas wafting over the bar at Pivni inYork, the smell was mulled cider at £3.50 for a stemmed glass it wasn’t […]
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When Matt from Truefitt brewing asked for people to go give him a hand brewing a special double india pale ale for his 50th brew there was no way I was going to miss it, even if I had drank far to much gin the night before. We arrived at the brewery just before 8am […]
View Post Brew Day, cask ale, IIPA, IPA, middlesbrough
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 […]
View Post beer shop, bottled beer, darlington, northern ale, northern beer, real ale
A couple of weeks ago I received an email asking if I was available to take part in the Sharp’s connoisseur choice cook off final, apparently the recipe I’d submitted on Sharp’s Facebook pagehad been chosen by 2 michelin star chef Nathan Outlaw to represent him in the final. It seemed like far too good of an […]
View Post beer and food, beer recipe, beer recipes, bottled beer, cask ale, cornish beer, recipe
I’ve brewed lots of homebrew kits in the past, you know the ones that come with two tins of extract, you tip it in a bucket, stick some water in and a bit of yeast then leave for a few days and hey presto you have beer, they were always ok but never out standing. […]
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St Austell are a brewery I’ve admired for ages, but fell head over heels for when we were on honeymoon in Cornwall back in April. As you can imagine they have a lot of pubs in Cornwall and just about everywhere sells some of their beer. The St Austell pubs we visited were great, most of them […]
View Post bottled beer, cornish beer, real ale, Underrated Breweries
Last week Hardknott ran an #OpenTheRhetoric event on twitter where the idea was those with a bottle of their latest beer would open it then discuss it via twitter. I was lucky enough to have a bottle so decided to try and pair it with some food and make a proper event of it. I […]
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Recently I received an email asking if I’d like to try the new Eden project fathers day gift set which comprised of a lovely little jute bag, 2 bottles of Eden Ale and a huge kilner jar of Eden Ale and Walnut chutney, as it happened we were in Cornwall and planning to call in at the Eden Project […]
View Post ale chutney, beer gifts, bottled beer, cornish ale
All being well this should have auto posted just as I sit down to eat our wedding breakfast of Chilli Beef Pie, Mash and Peas…hopefully with a couple of pints of cask ale and a couple of bottles of Durham Temptation. Even though we’ve been engaged for a long while we’d never really thought that […]
View PostOver the last couple of day’s I’ve been playing with 2 new Iphone apps that I was emailed about so I thought I’d do a quick comparison on here. The first one is a spin off from the great docufilm Beer Tickers: Beyond The Ale the second is simply called Beer List. 1) Description Beer […]
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