Beer of the weekend, definitely the Ellands 1872 Porter
At 6.5% I stupidly left this until the last drink of Friday night, by Saturday it had all been consumed so I’ve not had chance to give it another go and review it properly. What I can say is that …...
View ArticleBeer apps..
BEER? I’ve got an app for that… Plug beer into the iPhone app store search engine and you are presented with a plethora of choices from across the world. A large proportion of them being those oh so...
View ArticleFlintshire Real Ale Trail
Fancy exploring the Welsh countryside and enjoying some fine real ales at the same time this coming weekend? If so this will be very much of interest… It’s not too far away from the Potteries if you...
View Article10th Nantwich Beer Festival 2011
A date for your diary here folks.. I bumped into a couple of friends from CAMRA Cheshire recently, at the Bhurtpore Inn Beer Festival. They stuffed a flier in my hand and asked if I would give their...
View ArticleNaked Beer anyone?
I was given the opportunity on Friday to join the judging panel for the Nantwich CAMRA Beer Festival Champion Beer of Cheshire. Approaching the day I was really excited about the prospect, as it was...
View ArticleVive la Révolution, sadly it’s not reached us yet?
I was going to use “Brewdog Stoke” as the title of this post, in fact I may still list it as a tag to see how much the search term is used out of interest. This was to try and … Continue reading →
View ArticleWhat makes a great beer city?
Following on from my post about the lack of availability of British keg beers other than the normal run of the mill bar toppers. Quite a few folks mentioned that they wouldn’t like to see the decline...
View Article#TheSession 61 – Down My Local
This months tenure of #TheSession sits with the Hoosier Beer Geek. He asks us to talk about local beer, why is local beer important, specifically what if anything makes it better? Anything for me is...
View ArticleThe Art of Beer – Rob Pointon at The Bulls Head
I don’t tend to do event plugs on here (as stand alone posts at least), but this one is a little different as it features something that has both happened and is yet to be. It features many people I …...
View ArticleBeyond The Velodrome
Leaving home for Manchester yesterday, I had to confess I did so with a hint of trepidation. Not beating around the bush, I’ve felt more than a little let down with some of the CAMRA led beer festivals...
View ArticleMacclesfield beer gathering III – #MaccToTheFuture
As you may or may not know, I have helped organise an event in Macclesfield over the last two years, a Twissup, beer gathering, meet up, call it what you will. Both seem to have been well received,...
View ArticleMacc To Basics
For the oh so many people that have been asking me about this, I can at last confirm that this years Macclesfield #Twissup is go! As you can probably guess from the lack of updates, since we decided to...
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