BeerCast #28 – Swedish Special
BeerCast #28 – Swedish Special. For New Year 2009 BeerCasters Richard, Shovels, Andy and Jess celebrated in Stockholm – one of Europe’s funkiest cities. As we’re never off duty, while there we visited a Systembolaget on Klarabergsgaten and picked up four beers for an impromptu podcast. Recorded on an iPhone rather than our usual high-tech studio setup, the quality isn’t that great – but it’s just about audible. Happy new year!
1. Oppigårds Golden Ale (5.2%)
2. Nils Oscar India Ale (5.3%)
3. Åbro Sigill III (5.2%)
4. Carnegie Baltic Porter (5.5%)
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Back of the cupboard
We’ve been considering for a while the idea of recording a podcast involving canned beer rather than bottled – although we’ve not managed one as yet. In late 2007 I was in Japan and picked up four cans of interesting-looking jibiru with a view to recording our first ever canned episode. But it always seemed […]
In praise of the Wellington…part 2
In late 2007 I visited a pub in Birmingham with one of the largest arrays of handpumps I’d ever seen – the Wellington on Bennet’s Hill. Well, the other day a similar bit of business saw me return to the second city and I just had to pay another visit. In short, the Wellington is […]
BeerCast #27 – Beer of the Year 2008
BeerCast #27 – Beer of the Year Show 2008. Welcome aboard for our second annual BeerCast BotY show. Which beer will replace last year’s winner Anchor Special Ale 2006? Our panel of Richard, Shovels, Grooben and Tom the Hopmeister sample the four highest-scoring beers of the 73 we tried in 2008, and pick a winner.
1. Thwaites Double Century (5.2%)
2. Hop Back Summer Lightning (5.0%)
3. Theakston XB (4.5%)
4. BrewDog Hardcore IPA (9.0%)
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The Bard’s Beer
The 25th of January is Scotland’s unofficial second National Day – and is probably celebrated far more widely than St Andrew’s Day itself. On that date in 1759 Robert Burns was born in a small cottage in the South Ayrshire town of Alloway. He went from humble farmer’s son to become the national poet of […]
