Best new beers of 2013…Bad Seed Saison
The penultimate listing in our best new British beers of 2013 was a completely chance discovery; a saison from a brand new North Yorkshire brewery. To brew something this good, right from the off, means this particular producer is one to definitely keep an eye on… Bad Seed Saison (6.0%) Bad Seed Brewery, Malton, North […]
Best new beers of 2013…Fyne/Wild Cool as a Cucumber
The next in the lineup of best new British beers of 2013 (in order of release) was the beery equivalent of that upbeat disco track that DJ’s claim becomes ‘the song of the summer’ (if that still happens, it’s been a while since I listened to ‘the charts’). Basically, it came out of nowhere to […]
Best New Beers of 2013…Tempest Old Parochial
We’re now halfway through our annual best new British beers of the year feature with this, the third pick. So far, we’ve had a fruity chilli IPA and a pithy, salty, wheat beer. Next up, we return to our native Scotland and turn attention towards an honest-to-goodness high abv, barrel-aged monster from the Borders… Old […]
Best New Beers of 2013…Magic Rock Salty Kiss
Following the initial nomination of Harbour Aji Limon IPA yesterday, our annual look back at the most memorable new British beers continues. There are five other places to fill in the list, and for the next choice, we head off on a long north-easterly journey from Cornwall, to the county of West Yorkshire. There, on […]
Best New Beers of 2013…Harbour Aji Limon IPA
The second week of December; time for the annual look back at the most memorable new British beers of the year! Every year in this introduction I write how the UK brewing scene is defying the recession and the taxman, and every year our brewers make it more true (even if both negatives are now […]
Nicholsons Christmas Beer – Sleigh Driver
Christmas. One inevitable facet of the year-end festivities is that they bring people together. Families. Elbow-jousting shoppers. Baileys-fuelled office party-goers. Whether you like it or not, groups get together at Christmas, and (more likely as not) turn to drink. Quite obviously, the best place to be when this human urge to congregate occurs is in […]
