Acorn is a brewery that’s beer is available on cask quite regularly round these parts as they are based just down the road in Barnsley, having said that we don’t see them in bottles very much, if at all, mainly because we are lacking any sort of decent bottle shop. I came across Gorlovka, or […]
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Beer Reviews and Real Ale Reviews do York 2009
A 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, yorkBeer Swap Beer #2 Hopdaemon Green Daemon Helles (5%)
Posted on by andyMogg in Beer Festivals & Events, Beer Reviews, Beer Swap, Breweries & Pubs, Hopdaemon No Comments
Hop Daemon’s Green Daemon Helles was the 2nd beer I decided to sample from my beer swap package. Green Daemon Helles is a 5% ABV bottle conditioned pale beer, it had quite a lot to live up to after the Skrimshander i had with my midweek curry. It started off quite promising when it poured […]
View Post Beer Swap, Bottle conditioned, english ales, english lager, HopdaemonMy Brewery Tap – 52 Week Beer Club
For those of you who haven’t heard of it (or looked at our places to buy beer page) My brewery tap is an online beer shop that sells beer directly from breweries, so when you place an order your beer comes straight from the people that made it, this in theory gives you access to […]
View Post 52 week beer club, english ales, my brewery tap, real aleBeer Swap Test Beer #4: Cropredy Bridge 1644
Posted on by andyMogg in Beer Festivals & Events, Beer Reviews, Beer Swap, Breweries & Pubs, Cherwell Valley No Comments
This was the last of the Beer Swap test parcel beers that Mark from @realalereviews sent me. I was all ready to post the story on the beer and the brewery as it was another place (apart from the civil war that is) I hadn’t heard of so when I looked it up on google, […]
View Post Beer Swap, Cherwell Valley, cropredy bridge, english alesBeer Swap Test Beer #3: Cotswold Wheat Beer (4.2%)
Posted on by andyMogg in Beer Festivals & Events, Beer Reviews, Beer Swap, Breweries & Pubs, Cotswold Brewing Company 3 Comments
Cotswold Wheat Beer was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, (which also included Hook Norton Hooky Gold and Hook Norton Haymaker) and was from a brewery I hadn’t heard of before so I went straight to their website. According to their site: Modelled on the famous Weisse […]
View Post Beer Swap, Cotswold Brewing Co, english ales, wheat beerBeer Swap Test Beer #2: Hook Norton Haymaker (5%)
Hook Norton Haymaker was another beer that was sent to me by @realalereviews as part of the Beer Swap test parcel, It had a lot to live up to as it followed the other Hook Norton beer he sent (Hooky Gold). The first thing that makes this stand out is the label, I love it, […]
View Post Beer Swap, bitter, english ales, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire alesBeer Swap Test Beer #1: Hook Norton – Hooky Gold (4.2%)
Hooky Norton Hooky Gold was one of the 4 Beer Swap test parcel beers that were sent to me by @realalereviews, Hook Norton was a brewery that I was familiar with but I had never had Hooky Gold so was looking forward to trying it. Hooky Gold is a pale and refreshing ale from Hook […]
View Post Beer Swap, Beerswap, english ales, Hook NortonTimothy Taylor – Landlord Bitter (4.3%)
Timothy Taylor’s Landlord is possibly one of most well known beers from Yorkshire and has been around since the year dot, It also happens to be one of my favourite beers and one of those beers that I can’t decide if I prefer it on cask or in bottles. Last night we went to Vista […]
View Post english ales, local ales, Timothy Taylor, Yorkshire beerBeer swapping across the universe
There has been a lot of Beer Swap action across the country this week, people sending parcels, people reciving them, it’s not been without it’s problems , mainly due to the parcel delivery service we used. The good news is that not only have I received the test parcel from Mark at Real Ale Reviews, […]
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