Waen Brewery Pale Into Significance (5%)
Waen’s Extra Pale Ale brewed with nine different hops is really rather nice. It begins with a lemon and Love Heart aroma that wafts up from a light golden beer. The malting is soft and subtle, chewy...
View ArticleSalopian Brewery Dead Drop (4.7%)
Yet another lovely Pale Ale from Salopian, this one is floral and fruity, the aroma a massive blast of tangerines and nectarines as the beer pours a slightly cloudy orange into my glass. The...
View ArticleRocky Head Brewery Session (4%)
Rocky Head are good, aren’t they? This, their Session beer, is packed with flavour, form big bold punchy hops to sweet sticky malts. Pouring a sunny gold with a big fluffy head, the aroma is mandarins,...
View ArticleSiren Craft Brew Love Of Work (3.6%)
Now this I like. It’s Siren’s version of a beer they first brewed over in America in collaboration with Hill Farmstead. It’s a well hopped Pale Ale brewed with Earl Grey tea and what I like so much...
View Article8 Sail Brewery Endeavour (4.2%)
8 Sail’s Endeavour is part of their Best of British Hops range, and Endeavour is a hop that I’m not overly familiar with. Moreover, based on this beer, it’s not a hop that I’m overly keen on getting to...
View ArticleCheddar Ales Hardrock (4.4%)
I really like Cheddar Ales’ beer. They have a solid core range and keep creating new seasonal and small batch brews that so far haven’t disappointed. Hardrock is a Pale Ale that’s packed with hops,...
View ArticleStewart Brewing Hop Jock (5%)
A decent Pale Ale this may be, earth shattering it’s not. It’s certainly not quite as bursting with hop character as it claims to be. That said, Hop Jock is perfectly drinkable, pouring a rich gold and...
View ArticleHopstuff Single Mosaic 4.2%
Hopstuff’s Mosaic is the 4th beer in the breweries single hop series. Mosiac has been described as Citra on steroids and a number of breweries including the likes of Adnams and Crouch Vale have been...
View ArticleAs Easy As BBB: Birmingham Beer Bash 2015
Now in its third year, Birmingham Beer Bash, or Birmingham Cubed as many affectionately know it, has started to feel established. But never establishment. The organisers have done a little bit of...
View ArticleEden Brewery Eden Fuggle (3.8%)
A beer brewed with a single malt and a single hop, namely Maris Otter Pale and Fuggles, this is a rather good easy drinking ale. The beer sits in my glass a glowing peachy gold and smells of ripe...
View ArticleEdge Brewing Flor De La Vida (4.7%)
Edge was founded in Barcelona by a couple of American ex-pats and the label goes out of its way to explain how, even though this is brewed in Spain, it uses American equipment (?) and is American style...
View ArticleHarviestoun The Ridge (5%)
This is a big beer. A fun beer. A beer to get your teeth into. The Ridge is a Pale Ale with the body and mouthfeel of a big bad oily Double IPA and the sweet sticky toffee apple joy … Continue reading →
View ArticleMoor Beer Co. Rider’s Revival (3.8%)
Rider’s Revival is a jasmine green tea infused Pale Ale and it’s absolutely delightful. The jasmine wafts gently up at you as you pour, its subtle perfume mixing with a soft caramel and a subtle peachy...
View ArticleTwo Beers From Uprising Brewery
Treason (6%) A year ago I was sent a little plastic bottle containing a sample. I poured a rich deep amber and had a light frothy head. It was a sample of Treason, Uprising’s first beer. And now, a...
View ArticleLike Two Worlds Not Meant To Collide: My London Beer Week, 2015
You and I are like two worlds Not meant to collide Death to each other In the unravelling of time – The Waterboys “Rags” Last week was London Beer Week and I travelled down to attend a couple of events...
View ArticleMatilda Bay Brewing Co. Fat Yak (4.7%)
A Pale Ale all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Fat Yak is pretty good if a little sweet. The aroma is full of pine resin and peaches and the beer sits a warm amber in my glass. The malts here …...
View ArticleBrixton Brewery Lupulo Pale Ale (4.5)
Brewed for the cool as you like DF/Mexico restaurant in London, Lupulo Pale Ale is a super hoppy little bottle of beer. It pours a lovely gold and smells of Passion flowers, grapes and peaches. The...
View ArticleAtlantic Brewery Azores (4.2%)
This nicely presented bottle of Pale Ale smelled lovely as I poured it, all peaches and Passion flowers, but sadly this bottle is almost completely flat and watery and limp. Maybe it’s just that I got...
View ArticleBrooklyn Brewery Summer Ale (5%)
I can’t begin to tell you how bland this is, how boring it is. OK, I could if I wanted to, but truth be told Brooklyn’s Summer Ale has so little of interest that it’s hard for me to do … Continue...
View ArticlePartizan Brewing Pale Ale Citra Centennial Cascade Chinook (4.5%)
Here are the notes that I wrote as I drank this beer. Reading them back a few days after the event they tell me exactly what I need to know without editing them into prose. Smells a bit farty....
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