Things have been a bit hectic since my trip to Leeds for the European Beer Bloggers Conference so this post has taken a while to get to the top of my list. Lots has already been written, plenty of photographs shared and plenty of stories told and fondly remembered. It was my first Beer Bloggers conference and […]
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Over 130 beers plus more than 30 cliders and perries will be available at Northumbria University Student Union, 2 Sandyford Road, NE1 8SB. On Wednesday 18th the doors open at 18:00 and close at 22:30 Thursday 12:00 til 22:30 Friday 12:00 til 22:30 Saturday 12:00 to 17:00 Entry is £3 per session unless you have a […]
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This week’s meet the brewer comes from a brewery close to my heart as their Workie Ticket was one of the first beers I ever had at a beer festival, It’s also one that’s recently undergone a bit of a transformation and is going from strength to strength Where did your brewery name come from? […]
View Post bottled beer, cask ale, geordie beer, northern beerThe 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, TwissupA 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, TwissupJust found this in my inbox so thought I would share it, The rather excellent Newcastle Arms in Newcastle is having a beer festival that starts tomorrow. There are some brilliant beers from some of my favourite breweries so if you are in the area then it’s worth a look. You can also get the […]
View Post Beer Festival, newcastle, northern beer, toonThis weeks Meet The Brewer, comes from Colin at Marble, he’s the second brewer from Marble Brewery to take part, although Dom now brewing at Thornbridge. What is your Brewery name and where did it come from? It’s the Marble Brewery in Manchester. It was named after the Marble Arch pub where it’s based. What is […]
View Post bottled beer, cask beer, kegged beer, manchester beer, marble brewery, northern beerAt 7:30pm it’s your chance to meet people from BrewDog including Josie Ludford their Northern Territory Sales & Marketing Manager. There’ll be talk, tasters and snacks at half time. If you’ve not been to the Tyne for a while you might not know that, alongside their Gold Tankard and two other rotating Wylam beers they […]
View Post bottled beer, BrewDog, kegged beer, northern beer, the tyneThis weeks Meet the brewer comes from a brewery just up the road from me The Captain Cook Brewery in Stokesley and from Matt Power (soon to be Truefitt) so here goes. What is your brewery capacity? These are exciting times for the brewery, we recently started to brew 4x4BBL instead of 3, we are […]
View Post captain cook, north yorkshire, northern beer, stokesley beer, Yorkshire beerI’ve just been sent the beer list from Harlepool Beer Festival so thought I would share it with everyone, there are some great Beers on there. It’s ran by Hartlepool Round Table and takes place at Hartlepool Borough Hall on the Headland, It runs from Friday 15th to Saturday 16th October, ther’s live music on […]
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