2009 Great British Beer Festival Lineup
Our live Twitter Updates will return at the GBBF Our recent trip to the Scottish Real Ale Festival produced a lot of new and interesting surprises – even though it was our third consecutive year there – underlining why we love going to those kind of events. However, as much as we like experimenting with […]
Greene King Suffolk Springer
There are plenty of places or organisations that claim something as their own, and so like to be known as ’The home of…’. For example, St Andrews is the home of golf, Lord’s the home of cricket, and Bury the home of black pudding. The county of Suffolk prides itself on being both the home […]
BeerCast #36 – IPA Battle
BeerCast #36 – IPA Battle. Following our recent StoutOff, we retain the format of two British and two American beers – but turn our attention to IPA’s. This time the British entrants are equally as punchy as the American, and our panel of Richard, Shovels, MrB and Steve get to grips with a full-on hopfest.
1. Hopdaemon Skrimshander IPA (4.5%)
2. Goose Island India Pale Ale (5.9%)
3. Downton Chimera IPA (7.0%)
4. Stone Ruination IPA (7.7%)
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BeerCast #35 – Not just any BeerCast…
BeerCast #35 – Not just any BeerCast. Our London panel take to the airwaves once again, having sourced some of the ‘own brand’ ales from Marks & Spencer. Brewed by some of the top producers in the country, these are badged as M&S ales and sold all over the country. Joining Andy and Jess are BeerCast first timers Nick and Kat. Unfortunately for an anchor, Andy was a touch far from the mic – but he is there!
1. M&S Buckinghamshire Ale (4.6%)
2. M&S Cornish IPA (5.0%)
3. M&S Yorkshire Bitter (4.6%)
4. M&S Organic Ale (6.0%)
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Fuller’s Honey Dew
Sticky commuters in London have recently had another piece of advertising added to torment them, as the Fuller’s Brewery in Chiswick are pushing their organic Honey Dew to the capital. Posters have appeared to try and maximise the effect of the hot spell by promoting their 5%abv honey-tinged beer on the travelling public. Made with […]
Scottish Real Ale Festival 2009 – Day 2
Grooben checking the beer list Another day, another day at the beer festival. We returned to the Assembly Rooms for a second helping of the best of Scotland’s real ale, eager to see what else we could discover. The beers were pretty much the same as the day before, so we fired straight into the […]
