Unity Brewing Co. Conflux (4.8%)
This isn’t bad, a pleasantly soft Pale Ale brewed with German and American hops – Hallertau Blanc and Ekuanot to be precise – it would make a decent session beer in a pub. The malts give you a light...
View ArticleEight Arch Brewing Co. Mango No. 5 (4.4%)
Pouring like orange paint, thick and creamy and bright, I had high hopes for this beer as it sat in my glass. You see, this being a beer brewed with mango I was expecting a great big fleshy mango hit,...
View ArticleFlying Dog Brewing Co. Bloodline (7%)
Brewed with blood oranges, this bright gold beer doesn’t promise too much excitement when you pour and sniff, just a smell of brown sugar, honey and something lightly fruity. But when you take a...
View ArticleDrygate Brewing Co. Disco Forklift Truck (5.1%)
Supposedly a Pale Ale brewed with mango, I can’t find any mango in here at all save for the lightest sweaty sock and tropical fruit sweetie smell that I find fruit occasionally gives beer. And so this...
View ArticleSpitting Out Miracles: Buxton & Omnipollo’s Ice Cream Series 2017
You know the drill. Omnipollo visit the Buxton Brewery and together they make some ludicrously delicious beer that feels and tastes like some weird avant garde beer pudding. I’m not sure how they do...
View ArticleDevil’s Peak Brewing Co. Push The Boat Out (5.5%)
“Brewed and bottled by our friends at Fierce Beer,” states the label alongside a warning that this beer has been, “produced in a facility that processes nuts.” I mention this as these facts are pretty...
View ArticleIlkley Brewing Co. Hendrix (4.9%)
Hendrix is a Pale Ale with American hops that has been brewed in commemoration of fifty years since Jimi Hendrix played in Ilkley, and what’s more it’s not too shabby. Pouring a warm gold with a little...
View ArticleIt’s a Pirate Life For Me
Pirate Life Brewing, founded in Adelaide in 2014, has set its sights high and within three years has gone from serving its local drinkers to entering markets across the globe. It hit the shores of the...
View ArticleCloudwater Brew Co. ™Life (6%)
Brewed in collaboration with Other Half Brewery, this beer was going to be called Bud Life but a certain brewing megalith decided they weren’t going to allow it and so ™Life it is. Amarillo Mosaic and...
View ArticleThe Draft House By The Sea Festival Pale Ale (4.5%)
Brewed by The Draft House at Gadd’s brewery in collaboration with Moshi Moshi, this Pale Ale has been made for the By The Sea Festival and though it isn’t the most exciting Pale Ale in the world it is...
View ArticleLost & Found Brewing Co. C-The Mango (5.6%)
An IPA brewed with Citra, Mosaic and El Dorado as well as fresh mango, Lost & Found are currently doing all the right things. This cloudy peach coloured beer smells of lime leaves and mango,...
View ArticleLervig Aktiebryggeri Lucky Jack Graperfruit Edition (4.7%)
Not as good as Grapefruit High Wire but miles ahead of Elvis Juice, Lervig’s Grapefruit version of Lucky Jack is really lovely. It pours a pale gold with a little fizzing head and smells of sweet honey...
View ArticleLost & Found ABL APA R3.2 (5.2%)
Lost & Found are quickly becoming a firm favourite and this little can of delight pretty much clinches the deal and a place in my heart. I love the can and I love the beer. The can is a piece …...
View ArticleTo Øl Tangerine Cream (4.6%)
I’ve not been disappointed with a To Øl Beer before, but I guess that there’s a first time for everything. Tangerine Cream sounds lovely, a Cream Ale brewed with tangerines, it should be lightly sweet...
View ArticleTrēs Bien Brewery Purple Octopus (4.2%)
Brewed locally to me, I really wanted to have good things to say about this, but unfortunately it falls rather short. It looked near to flat as I poured it and taking a swig there is nowhere near...
View ArticleGun Brewery How’s The Serenity? Vermont Pale (4.4%)
More Vermont yeast action. At this rate the world’s going to run out of brewing’s current favourite. Gun have decided to use it in a Pale Ale rather than the almost obligatory IPA and they’ve come up...
View ArticleNorth Brewing Co. Piñata (4.5%)
Up until now I’ve really liked everything I’ve had from North but this one, a Mango and Guava Pale Ale, is a little disappointing. And that’s an odd thing to say given that I rather like this as a Pale...
View ArticleMad Hatter Brewing Co. Lick Face (4%)
Sometimes it concerns me if a Brewery makes the decision to inform you that a beer of theirs is moreish on the label. It just so often smacks of desperately trying to convince. But with Lick Face Mad...
View ArticleStillwater Artisanal Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale (6%)
I suppose it would have been in my very early twenties that I first heard the term “Shoegaze” used to describe a particular kind of band that played loud and distorted yet dreamy music, floppy fringes...
View ArticleAlphabet Brewing Co. A To The K (5.6%)
I love the illustration that this beer is wrapped in, it’s fun and silly and hints at a musical knowledge. The beer isn’t bad either, with a strong tropical fruit jelly, lemon bonbon and herbal...
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