Abbeydale Brewery Duck Baffler (4.1%)
I guess Dr Morton’s Essential Aids is going to be a range of well dressed, well made, tongue in cheek beers. I could just ask the gang at the brewery, but right now I’m far too happy sitting here,...
View ArticleHowling Hops & How To Fall In Love Again
Many years ago, when CAMRGB was in its infancy so were Howling Hops. They were making fabulous beer in small batches and we hit it off right away, they even allowed our first #Twissup to meet up in...
View ArticleSignature Brew Co. Good Vibrations (5.2%)
Yet another great little beer from Signature, who are currently going from strength to strength. I’m not sure what has changed for them, but over the course of the last year or two they’ve come on in...
View ArticleDog’s Window Brewery Rescue (5.2%)
Dog’s Window may have just made my beer of the year. Everything about this is superb. Rescue is a Raspberry Pale Ale, and a very good one at that, brewed in collaboration with Pop’n’Hops in Cardiff....
View ArticleThree Is The Magic Number: Adnams Collaborations
Break Point (4.8%) Brewed in collaboration with Harbour, this Farmhouse Pale suffers from needing a bigger alcohol hit. There’s some lovely things going on in here, the Kveik yeast bringing peaches and...
View ArticleSolvay Society In Silico (6.6%)
Brewed in collaboration with the ever wonderful Elusive Brewing this Bitter Blonde is really rather good. There’s an almost farmyard-y apricot fruitiness to the aroma, it’s a smell that could lead you...
View ArticleBrewChap Brewing Concern An Imaginary Conversation With The Ghost Of Roy...
The sharp zestiness of this beer’s aroma announces this as a Grapefruit Pale Ale, without any need of a description. It’s a fresh and zingy aroma and it drifts up from the frothy head of this golden...
View ArticleBeer & Pizza Is A Heavenly Duo: Martin Bros. Micropizzeria
A month or so ago a new place opened up just down the road from my house in the Clarendon Park area of Leicester. Called Martin Bros. Micropizzeria, the place is the next step in the food and beer...
View ArticleWild Card’s International Women’s Day
I know it’s a little after the fact, but I was still really happy to get to try this gang of collaborative beer that Wild Card have brewed to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022. And so, without...
View ArticleWild Beer Co. Iechyd Da! (5%)
This collaboration with Polly’s is a mixed fermentation Pale Ale. The soft creamy malt body is smooth and satisfying, with caramel and vanilla ice cream, sugared doughnuts and rich runny honey, while...
View ArticleThe Nottingham Craft Beer Festival 2022
And here we are on the evening of Fathers’ Day. I’ve just treated myself and my son to a bit of steak and I’m drinking a rather fantastic barrel aged Stout gifted to me by Turning Point Brewery and...
View ArticleWild Card Brewery Monsters Of Wild Card
I have to tell you that as soon as I saw this range I wanted to try it. The nerdy graphic designer in me means that I’m a sucker for a well presented idea and packaging that matches. And this …...
View ArticleUnBarred Brewery Joosy (5.1%)
A hazy Pale Ale with Amarillo and Simcoe hops, this is actually one of my favourite beers of 2022. On the surface it sounds like just another Pale Ale, but the difference here is the balance, the...
View ArticleMoor Beer Co. True Believer (5.1%)
I’ve not had any Moor beer for ages, and this can has made me very pleased to have them back in my life. True Believer is a West Coast Pale Ale that is big and bright, rich and fruity. The … Continue...
View ArticleAttic Brew Co.: Bostin’ Beer From Birmingham
Hello there, please introduce yourselves. We’re Attic Brew Co founded by Oli Hurlow and Sam Back. Our brewery team is now sixteen people and seven dogs strong! You are based in the Stirchley area of...
View ArticleA Dozen Reasons Why I Still Love Cloudwater
Hello everyone. It’s been a while. For one reason or another I’ve not been writing much, partly my health ad partly “real” life getting in the way. But also partly because over the last few weeks there...
View ArticleThe Joy Of Beer: UnBarred Brewery’s Latest Offerings
It’s not too that things make you feel cool and hip, and at my age I’ll take whatever I can get. And so when my youngest daughter told me that Lovejoy, a band she liked had played at the UnBarred …...
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