Laško Dark
We’re well into the midst of the UK holiday season now (to our American friends, this means the time of year when us Brits escape the rain, not open presents). As such, no self-respecting beer website would be without a post regarding a strangely-titled Eurolager that whilst we’d never consider buying over here, put us […]
Natural Selection Brewing launch Finch
Earlier this week we previewed the launch of Natural Selection Brewing’s debut beer – Finch, a 6.5% ‘robust red ale’. Four students of Heriot Watt’s Brewing and Distilling postgrad course have come together to design, produce and market their own beer – from scratch – using the pilot plant at the Uni, and then the […]
Thwaites Old Dan
Blackburn’s Thwaites Brewery have been upping the ante recently, announcing a few new interesting beers to their core bottled range. We’re all huge fans of everything Lancashire here on the BeerCast – apart from Shovels of course, as he hails from the wrong side of the Pennines. However, even he forced Thwaites Double Century through […]
From classroom to brewhouse…
(left to right) Damon Scott, Steven Kersley, Kevin Emms and Colin Lymer It may not be the most obvious career path for a beer blogger*, but in my distant and murky past lies a Masters Degree in Marine Biology. For my final year project, I was tasked with evaluating pollution recovery in the Humber Estuary. […]
IPA night at BrewDog
BrewDog made something of the splash yesterday, as they released the second slice of equity for prospective investors. Seeking to raise £2.2m to finance a new, carbon-neutral, brewery – there was certainly plenty of interest, if the Twitter flood was anything to go by. Kenny over at the Beer Monkey posted his thoughts on the […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Mikkeller Czechet Pilsner
It’s Lagerboy’s station in life to chug his way through waves of yellow fizz – indeed, that’s what he thrives on. But just because he restricts himself to the see-though end of the spectrum doesn’t mean he has to sacrifice quality. Lager – that glorious process that results in cleaner, crisper beer – need not […]
